Prof. Matthew Feemster
Professor
Office: Hopper Hall 243
Email: feemster@usna.edu
Research Interests
Dynamics and Control Theory, Mobile Robotics
Education & Training
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, August 2000
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 1997
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, December, 1994
Professional Experience
- Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, August 2021 – Present
- Associate Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, August 2007 – August 2021
- Assistant Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, August 2002 – August 2007
- Control Engineer, WaveCrest Laboratories, Dulles, VA, August 2000 - July 2002
Honors and Awards
- 2013 Recipient of Raouf Ali Raouf Faculty Award Nominee for Excellence in Teaching Engineering
Patents
- B. Maslov, M. Feemster, G. Yuan, “Motor Control System for Dynamically Changing Motor Energization Current Waveform Profiles,” U.S. Patent No: 6,940,242, awarded September 2005.
- B. Maslov, M. Feemster, G. Yuan, “Adaptive Control of Motor Stator Current Waveform Profiles,” U.S. Patent No: 6,919,700, awarded July 2005.
- B. Maslov and M. Feemster, “Precision Motor Control with Selective Current Waveform Profiles in Separate Stator Core Segments,” U.S. Patent No: 6,794,839, awarded September 2004.
- B. Maslov and M. Feemster, and Z. Soghomonian, “Precision Brushless Motor Control Utilizing Independent Phase Parameters,” U.S. Patent No: 6,727,668, awarded April 2004.
- B. Maslov, M. Feemster, G. Yuan, “Phase Advance Angle Optimization for Brushless Motor Control,” U.S. Patent No. 7,436,13B2, awarded October 2008.
Significant Publications
- M. De Queiroz, X. Cai, and M. Feemster (2019), Formation of Control of Multi-Agent Systems. A Graph Rigidity Approach, Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-118-88744-8, 208 pages.
- M. Feemster, J. Piepmeier, H. Biggs, S. Yee, H. ElBidweihy, and S. Firebaugh, “Autonomous Microrobotic Manipulation using Visual Servo Control,” Mircromachines, 2020, 11, 132.
- M. Feemster, “Using Disturbance Rejection to Achieve Inter-Vehicle Spacing Within a Convoy,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 5331-5342, June 2019.
- M. Feemster, J. Thompson, J. Piepmeier, and S. Firebaugh, “Disturbance Rejection for a Microrobot Application,” 2019 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, Helsinki, Finland, July 1-5, 2019.
- J. Piepmeier, H. ElBidweihy, M. Feemster, H. Biggs and S. Firebaugh, “Autonomous micromanipulation using uncalibrated visual servo control,” 2019 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, Helsinki,
Finland, July 1-5, 2019. - P. Frontera, M. Feemster, M. Hurni, and M. Karpenko, “Time Optimal Swing-up of a Rotary Inverted Pendulum,” in the proceedings of ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference, Tysons, VA, October 2017.
- M. Feemster and J. Esposito, “A Comprehensive Framework for Tracking Control and Thrust Allocation for a Highly Over-Actuated Autonomous Surface Vessel,” Journal of Field Robotics, Feb. 2011.
