Taeyoung Lee
Curriculum Vitae, Research Statement, Teaching Statement, tylee@umich.edu

Education

Ph. D.	Department of Aerospace Engineering	University of Michigan	Sep 2004-Aug 2008
	Thesis: Computational Geometric Mechanics and Control of Rigid Bodies [Order a bound copy]
	Advisor: N. Harris McClamroch, Melvin Leok
	Committee: Daniel Scheeres, Anthony Bloch, Jessy Grizzle
M.S.	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan	Sep 2007-Apr 2008
M.S.	Department of Aerospace Engineering	Seoul National University	1998-2000
	Thesis: Nonlinear Adaptive and Robust Flight Control Using the Backstepping Algorithm (in Korean)
	Commitee: Youdan Kim (Advisor), Younghyup Kim, Changdon Kee
B.S.	Department of Aerospace Engineering	Seoul National University	1994-1998
	Thesis: F-16 Nonliner Simulator Development using OpenGL (in Korean)
	Commitee: Youdan Kim (Advisor)

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Florida Institute of Technology	Aug 2008-
Postdoctoral Scholar	Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan	May 2008-Jul 2008
Military Service	Second lieutenant, Tactical Control Officer The 3rd Air Defense Artillery Division, Republic of Korea Air Force	2001-2004

Honors & Awards

Distinguished Achievement Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan	2008
Ivor K. McIvor Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan (outstanding research in applied mechanics)	2008
SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, BGCE Student Paper Prize, finalist	2007
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan	2006-2007
Rackham International Students Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan	2006
Rackham Travel Grant, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan	Feb. 2006, Aug. 2006
International Scholarship, Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development, Korea	2004

Publications

Computational Geometric Mechanics

1. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Dynamics of Connected Rigid Bodies in a Perfect Fluid," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2009, submittted, Available:arXiv:0809.1488. Animation: Fig 1,
   


2. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Lagrangian Mechanics and Variational Integrators on Two-Spheres," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2008, submitted, Available:arXiv:0707.0022. Animation: Fig3.1 Fig3.2 Fig3.3 Fig3.4 Fig3.5 Fig3.6 Fig3.7
   


3. N. Chaturvedi, T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Nonlinear Dynamics of the 3D Pendulum," Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2008, submitted.
   


4. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Lie Group Variational Integrators for the Full Body Problem in Orbital Mechanics," Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 121-144, 2007, doi:10.1007/s10569-007-9073-x, Animation: Fig2
   


5. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Lie Group Variational Integrators for the Full Body Problem," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 196, pp. 2907-2924, 2007, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2007.01.017, Available:arXiv:math.NA/0508365. Animation: Fig4
   


6. E. Fahnestock, T. Lee, M. Leok, N. H. McClamroch, and D. Scheeres, "Polyhedral Potential and Lie Group Variational Integrator Computations for the Full Two Body Problem," in Proceedings of AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit, 2006, Available:arXiv:math.NA/0608695.
   


7. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "A Lie Group Variational Integrator for the Attitude Dynamics of a Rigid Body with Application to the 3D Pendulum," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Application, Toronto, Canada, Aug 2005, pp. 962-967. Animation: Chaotic Motion
   

Computational Geometric Optimal Control

1. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Time Optimal Attitude Control for a Rigid Body," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2008, pp. 5210-5215, Available:arXiv:0709.2514. Animation: Fig1(a), Fig2(a)
   


2. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Geometric Optimal Control of Rigid Bodies," Communications in Information and Systems, special issue dedicated to R. W. Brockett, 2007, submitted.
   


3. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Optimal Attitude Control of a Rigid Body using Geometrically Exact Computations on SO(3)," Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 465-487, 2008, Available:arXiv:math.OC/06014243. Animation: Fig2(a), Fig3(a), Fig4(a), Fig5(a)
   


4. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Discrete Control Systems," Invited article for the Springer Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, 2007, Available:arXiv:0705.3868
   


5. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "A Combinatorial Optimal Control Problem for Spacecraft Formation Reconfiguration," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007, pp. 5370-5375, Available:arXiv:math.OC/0702738. Animation: Fig2
   


6. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Optimal Attitude Control for a Rigid Body with Symmetry," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2007, pp. 1073-1078, Available:arXiv:math.OC/0609482. Animation: Fig2(a), Fig3(a), Fig4(a), Fig5(a)
   


7. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Optimal Control of a Rigid Body using Geometrically Exact Computations on SE(3)," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, Dec 2006, pp. 2170--2175, Available:arXiv:math.OC/0602588. Animation: Fig1(a), Fig2(a), Fig3(a), Fig4(a)
   


8. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Attitude Maneuvers of a Rigid Spacecraft in a Circular Orbit," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jun 2006, pp. 1742-1747, Available:arXiv:math.NA/0509299. Animation: Fig2(a), Fig2(b), Fig2(c), Fig3(a)
   

Estimation/Uncertainty Propagation

1. T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Global Symplectic Uncertainty Propagation on SO(3)," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2008, accepted, Available:arXiv:math.DS/0803.1515.
   


2. A. Sanyal, T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Global Optimal Attitude Estimation using Uncertainty Ellipsoids," Systems & Control Letters, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 236-245, 2008, doi:10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.08.014, Available:arXiv:math.OC/0606083.
   


3. T. Lee, A. Sanyal, M. Leok, N. H. McClamroch, and A. Sanyal, "Propagation of Uncertainty in Rigid Body Attitude Flows," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007, pp. 2689-2694, Available:arXiv:math.DS/0702737.
   


4. T. Lee, M. Leok, N. H. McClamroch, and A. Sanyal, "Global Attitude Estimation with Single Direction Measurements," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2007, pp. 3659-3664, Available:arXiv:math.OC/0609481.
   


5. T. Lee, A. Sanyal, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Deterministic Global Attitude Estimation," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, Dec 2006, pp. 3174--3179, Available:arXiv:math.OC/0602589.
   

Nonlinear Flight Control

1. T. Lee and Y. Kim, "Nonlinear Adaptive Flight Control using Backstepping and Neural Networks Controller," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 675-682, 2001.
   


2. T. Lee and Y. Kim, "Nonlinear Adaptive Flight Control using Neural Networks and Backstepping," Korean Journal of Control, Automation and Systems Engineering, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 1070-1078, 2000.(*)
   


3. T. Lee, Y. Kim, and D. Kim, "Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Flight Control using Neural Networks," in Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Control Conference, Shanghai, China, July 2000.
   


4. T. Lee and Y. Kim, "Robust Nonlinear Control of Flight Dynamics using Backstepping Controller," in Proceedings of the Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences Fall Conference, Kyoungki, Korea, Nov. 1999.(*)
   


5. J. Ahn, T. Lee, and Y. Kim, "Real-time Missile Trajectory Optimization using Parameter Optimization," in Proceedings of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences (JSASS) 13th International Sessions in 37th Aircraft Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 1999.
   


6. T. Lee and Y. Kim, "Nonlinear Adaptive Control of Flight Dynamics using Backstepping and Neural Networks Controller," in Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Control, Automation, and System Engineering 5th Conference, Yongin, Korea, Oct. 1999.(*)
   


7. J. Ahn, T. Lee, and Y. Kim, "Real Time Formulation of Missile Trajectory Optimization using a Parameter Optimization Technique," Journal of Korean Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 94-103, 1999.(*)
   

(*) Korean domestic Journal or Conference

Teaching/Research Assistant

Instructor	MAE4242: Aircraft Stability and Control MAE4014: Control Systems Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology	Fall 2008 Spring 2009
Instructor	Part-time (50%) Lecturing on AE740: Analytical and Computational Dynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan	Fall 2007
Research Assistant	Computational Geometric Methods for the Control of Clusters of Rigid Bodies Margaret and Herman Sokol Research Grant, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	2006
Research Assistant	Computational Geometric Mechanics Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan	2005
Teaching Assistant	Course note development for AE245, Steady Aircraft Flight and Aircraft Performance Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan	2005
Research Assistant	Medium Range Missile Trajectory Optimization Agency for Defense Development, Korea	1998-2000
Research Assistant	Institute of Advanced Machinery and Design Seoul National University, Korea	1998

Invited Conference & Seminar Talks

Computational Geometric Mechanics and Control of Rigid Bodies Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida	Feb 2008
Computational Geometric Mechanics, Control, and Estimation of Rigid Bodies on Lie Groups SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Costa Mesa, California	Feb 2007
Optimal Control of a Rigid Body using Geometrically Exact Computations on Lie Groups Flight Dynamics and Control Student Seminar, University of Michigan	Oct 2006
Attitude Maneuvers of a Rigid Spacecraft in a Circular Orbit Flight Dynamics and Control Student Seminar, University of Michigan	Nov 2005
Lie Group Variational Integrator for the Attitude dynamics of a Rigid body Flight Dynamics and Control Student Seminar, University of Michigan	Feb 2005

Professional Service & Memberships

Reviewer: International Journal of Control, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Control Engineering Practice, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, 2008, IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control 2007, American Control Conference 2008, 2009, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2008

Memberships: IEEE Member, SIAM Member