Nonlinear Systems Lab

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Aerospace Engineering at Illinois is pleased to announce that full funding has now been achieved for the department's first endowed graduate fellowship.

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AE Prof. Scott R. White and his research have been featured on magazine's website.

AE Students Awarded Rockwell Collins Scholarships

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AE Students Compete in NASA Lunabotics Competition

AE students are members of a University of Illinois team competing in the Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, hosted by NASA.

Tanaka Wins CDC Best Student Paper Award

AE graduate student Takashi Tanaka won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award from the Conference on Decision and Control of IEEE.

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Faculty Researchers:	Location:	Phone:	Website:
Professor N. S. Namachchivaya	Room 302J Talbot Laboratory	217-333-9244

Description of Research:

Directed by Professor N. S. Namachchivaya. The focus of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory is to study the complex interaction between noise, stability, and nonlinearities inherent in mechanical and structural systems. The goal of the experimental investigations carried out in the lab is to verify the analytical results obtained by the Nonlinear Systems Group. The results of these experiments will add important insight into many global phenomena that occur in nonlinear systems. Current activities include the investigation of the stability and bifurcation behavior of gyroscopic systems subjected to periodic or stochastic excitations. This lab is supported through partial funding from an NSF Research Equipment Grant, AFOSR, and Tektronix, Inc.