Professor Malcolm C. Smith

Faculty Member

Tel: +44 1223 3 32745 Fax: +44 1223 332662 Email: mcs[at]eng[dot]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ

Background

Malcolm Smith received the B.A. (M.A.) degree in mathematics, the M.Phil in control engineering and operational research and the Ph.D. degree in control Engineering from the University of Cambridge, England. He was sunsequently a Research Fellow at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhof, Germany, a VIsiting Assistant Professor and Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He is now a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and a Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Current Research Interests

Collaborators

Selected Recent Papers of M.C.Smith and Abstracts

Nonlinear Gap Metric

Remarks on "Robustness Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems: An Input-Output Approach", by T.T. Georgiou and M.C. Smith. IEEE AC-Transactions, vol. 46, pp. 171-172, 2001
Robustness of a relaxation oscillator, by T.T. Georgiou and M.C. Smith, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 10, pp. 1005-1024, 2000. (Abstract)
Robustness analysis of nonlinear feedback systems: An input-output approach, by T.T. Georgiou and M.C. Smith. IEEE AC-Transactions, vol. 42, pp. 1200-1221, 1997. (Abstract)

Suspension Systems

Interconnected Vehicle Suspension, by M.C. Smith and G.W. Walker. Proceedings of IMechE, Part D, Journal of Automobile Engineering, Volume 219, Pages 295-307, March 2005
Controller Parametrisation for Disturbance Response Decoupling: Application to Vehicle Active Suspension Control, by M.C. Smith and F.-C. Wang. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 10, Number 3, Pages 393-407, May 2002
Performance limitations and constraints for active and passive suspensions: a mechanical multi-port approach, by M.C. Smith and G.W. Walker, Vehicle System Dynamics, vol. 33, 137-168, 2000 (Abstract)
Achievable Dynamic Response for Automotive Active Suspensions, by M.C. Smith. Vehicle Systems Dynamics, vol. 24, pp. 1-34, 1995. (Abstract)

The Inerter

Synthesis of Mechanical Networks: The Inerter, by M.C. Smith. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 47, Number 10, Pages 1648- 1662, October 2002 [PDF]
The Inerter Concept and Its Application, Plenary Lecture, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Annual Conference, Fukui, Japan, 4 August 2003
Performance Benefits in Passive Vehicle Suspensions Employing Inerters, by M.C. Smith and F.-C. Wang. Vehicle System Dynamics, Volume 42, Number 4, Pages 235-257, 2004
Positive real synthesis using matrix inequalities for mechanical networks: application to vehicle suspension, by C. Papageorgiou and M.C. Smith. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 14, Number 3, Pages 423-435, May 2006
Passive Network Synthesis Revisited, Semi-Plenary Lecture, 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, 2006
Mechanical Steering Compensators for high-performance motorcycles, by S. Evangelou, D.J.N. Limebeer, R.S. Sharp and M.C. Smith. Transactions of ASME, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Volume 74, Number 2, Pages 332-346, March 2007[IEEE Control Systems Magazine Article]

Validated Numerical Methods

Validated numerical computation of the L-infinity norm for linear dynamical systems, by M. Kanno and M.C. Smith. Journal of Symbolic Computation, Volume 41, Number 6, Pages 697-707, June 2006
Guaranteed Accuracy Computations in Systems and Control, by M. Kanno and M.C. Smith. European Control Conference, September 2003 [PDF]
Maple programs for validated numerical computation in systems control [Online], by M. Kanno and M.C. Smith. 2005

Control Systems (General)

A Robust Control Framework for Linear, Time-Invariant, Spatially Distributed Systems, by J. Reinschke, M.W. Cantoni and M.C. Smith, SIAM J. on Control and Optimization, vol. 40, pp. 610-627, 2001. (Abstract)
Nonlinear Control for Robust Rejection of Periodic Disturbances, by R.C.H. Lee and M.C. Smith, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 39, pp. 97-107, 2000. (Abstract)
Robustness and Trade-offs in Repetitive Control, by R.C.H. Lee and M.C. Smith, Automatica, vol. 34, pp. 889-896, 1998. (Abstract)
Explicit formulas for optimally robust controllers for delay systems, by H. Dym, T.T. Georgiou and M.C. Smith. IEEE AC-Transactions, vol. 40, pp. 656-669, 1995. (Abstract)
When is a controller optimal in the sense of H-infinity loop-shaping? by J. Feng and M.C. Smith. IEEE AC-Transactions, vol. 40, 2026-2039. 1995. (Abstract)
Intrinsic difficulties in using the doubly-infinite time axis for input-output systems theory, by T.T. Georgiou and M.C. Smith. IEEE AC-Transactions, vol. 40, pp. 516-518, 1995. (Abstract)
Continuity Properties of LQG Optimal Controllers, by M. Green and M.C. Smith. Systems and Control Letters, vol. 26, pp. 33-39, 1995. (Abstract)
Graphs, causality and stabilizability: linear, shift-invariant systems on L-2 [0,infinity), by T.T. Georgiou and M.C. Smith, Math. of Control Signals and Systems, vol. 6, pp. 195-223, 1993 (Abstract)

Control Group

Cambridge University Department of Engineering