Drew Steeves
Ph.D. Candidate in Dynamical Systems and Control
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Advisor:
Miroslav Krstic
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Summary
I am a PhD candidate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with expertise in the control of dynamical systems, safety-critical control with applications to autonomous vehicles, and performance-driven control with applications to robotics. My dissertation research focuses on accelerated convergence algorithms for the stabilization, state-estimation, safety-critical control, motion planning and tracking for various engineering system models. I have industry experience in ADAS development and performance-driven safety design and verification for autonomous vehicles at Ford, and in deep neural network architecture for image classification at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab.
Awards
2021 | SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize (for my work on controllability of coupled parabolic PDEs, shared with Bahman Gharesifard and Abdol-Reza Mansouri). C21 Prize Spotlight
2017 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Post-Graduate Doctoral Scholarship
2016 | Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship in Science and Technology, Queen’s University
2015 | Frank Carrel Graduate Fellowship, Queen's University
Publications
Journals
4. Nicolas Espitia, Drew Steeves , Wilfrid Perruquetti, and Miroslav Krstic. (2021) “Sensor Delay-Compensated Prescribed-Time Observer for LTI Systems”, Automatica 135, 110005
3. Drew Steeves , Miroslav Krstic, and Rafael Vazquez. (2020) “Prescribed-time estimation and output regulation of the linearized Schrödinger equation by backstepping”, European Journal of Control 55, 3-13.
2. Drew Steeves , Bahman Gharesifard, and Abdol-Reza Mansouri. (2019) “Controllability of coupled parabolic systems with multiple underactuations, part 2: null controllability”, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 57:5, 3297-3321.
1. Drew Steeves , Bahman Gharesifard, and Abdol-Reza Mansouri. (2019) “Controllability of coupled parabolic systems with multiple underactuations, part 1: algebraic solvability”, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 57:5, 3272-3296.
Conferences
13. Sven Brüggemann, Drew Steeves , and Miroslav Krstic, "Simultaneous Lane-Keeping and Obstacle Avoidance by Combining Model Predictive Control and Control Barrier Functions,", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, 2022, submitted
12. Yuanyuan Shi, Zongyi Li, Huan Yu, Drew Steeves , Anima Anandkumar, and Miroslav Krstic, "Machine Learning Accelerated PDE Backstepping Observers", AIEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, 2022, submitted
11. Imoleayo Abel, Drew Steeves , and Miroslav Krstic, "Prescribed-Time Safety Design for a Chain of Integrators", American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, GA, 2022, to appear
10. Drew Steeves and Miroslav Krstic, "Prescribed-Time Stabilization Robust to Measurement Disturbances", American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, GA, 2022, to appear
9. Drew Steeves , Nicolas Espitia, Miroslav Krstic, and Wilfrid Perruquetti, "Input Delay Compensation in Prescribed-Time of Boundary-Actuated Reaction-Diffusion PDEs", American Control Conference (ACC), 274-279, New Orleans, LA, 2021
8. Drew Steeves and Miroslav Krstic, "Prescribed-time stabilization of ODEs with diffusive actuator dynamics", 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), 434-439, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2021
7. Drew Steeves , Leobardo Camacho-Solorio, Mouhacine Benosman, and Miroslav Krstic, "Prescribed–Time Tracking for Triangular Systems of Reaction–Diffusion PDEs", World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 7629-7634, Berlin, Germany, 2020
6. Drew Steeves , Leobardo Camacho-Solorio, and Miroslav Krstic, "Boundary Prescribed–Time Stabilization of a Pair of Coupled Reaction–Diffusion Equations", American Control Conference (ACC), 812-817, Denver, CO, 2020
5. Drew Steeves , Miroslav Krstic, and Rafael Vazquez, "Prescribed–Time Stabilization of the Linearized Schrödinger Equation", American Control Conference (ACC), 1594-1599, Denver, CO, 2020
4. Drew Steeves , Miroslav Krstic, and Rafael Vazquez, "Prescribed-Time H1-Stabilization of Reaction-Diffusion Equations by Means of Output Feedback", European Control Conference (ECC), 1932-1937, Naples, Italy, 2019
3. Drew Steeves , Miroslav Krstic, and Rafael Vazquez, "Prescribed-Time Stabilization of Reaction-Diffusion Equation by Output Feedback", American Control Conference (ACC), 2570-2575, Philadelphia, PA 2019
2. Drew Steeves , Bahman Gharesifard, and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, "Controllability of Coupled Parabolic Systems with Multiple Underactuations", Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 5488-5493, Miami Beach, FL, 2018
1. Jeremy Coulson, Drew Steeves , Bahman Gharesifard, and Behrouz Touri, "On the Termination Time of the One-Sided Asymmetric Hegselmann-Krause Dynamics", American Control Conference, 4054-4059, Chicago, 2015
Education
2021 | Ph. D. Candidate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC San Diego, CA, USA
2017 | M.A.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Engineering
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
2015 | B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Research & Teaching Experience
2017-21 | Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UCSD: RA for prescribed-time regulation project; TA for Nonlinear Systems
2019 | Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, Cambridge, MA: Research Intern within Data Analytics Group, with Mouhacine Benosman
2014-17 | Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Queen's University: RA for opinion dynamics project; TA for Modern Control Theory; TA for Control of Stochastic Systems
Professional Activities
Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.6 on Distributed Parameter Systems
Served as a reviewer for Automatica, International Journal of Control, System and Control Letters, Trans. on Control Systems Technology, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and for the proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IFAC World Congress, and International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS).