Patents

• Ghorbel, F.H., and Gandhi, P.S., "Closed Loop Compensation of Kinematic Error in Harmonic Drives for Precision Control Applications," U.S. Patent No. 6,459,940, issued October 1, 2002.

• Ghorbel, F.H., and Dabney, J.B., “Autonomous Robotic Crawler for In-Pipe Inspection," (continuation) U.S. Patent No. 7,182,025, issued February 27, 2007.

• Ghorbel, F.H., and Dabney, J.B., Steger, J.R., Thomas, C.A., Spanos, D.P., Lowry, N.C., and Seto, B.W., "Autonomous Robotic Crawler for In-Pipe Inspection," U.S. Patent No. 7,210,364, issued May 1, 2007.


• Brusco, M., Jamoussi, A., Stanley, R.K., and Ghorbel, F.H., "In-Pipe Coating Integrity Monitoring for Very Long Pipes,'' U.S. Patent No. US 2008/0048682 A1, Pub. Date February 28, 2008.

• Dutta, S.M., and Ghorbel, F.H., “A Method for Measurement of Pipe Wall Thickness using Magnetic Flux Leakage Signals,'” Patent Pending.


Journal Articles



• Landolsi, F. Ghorbel, F.H., and Dabney, J.B., “Adhesion and Friction Coupling in AFM-based Nano-Pushing,” ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, (In review)

• Landolsi, F. , Ghorbel, F.H., and Dick, A.J., “Analysis of the occurrence of stick-slip in AFM-based nano-pushing,'' Nonlinear Dynamics, (In review)

• Landolsi, F. , Ghorbel, F.H., “Duo-biomorph based AFM cantilever for nanomanipulation,” Smart Materials and Structures, (In review)

• Chen Y., Dick, A.J., and Ghorbel, F.H., “Tip Trajectories of a Smart Micro-Cantilever Beam: Analysis and Design,” Smart Materials and Structures, 18 (2009)

• Landolsi, F. , Ghorbel, F.H. , Lou, J. , Lu, H. and Sun, Y., “Nanoscale Friction Dynamic Modeling,” ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 131, Issue 6, 061102 (7 pages), November 2009.


• Dutta, S.M., Ghorbel, F.H., and Stanley, R.K., “Dipole Modeling of Magnetic Flux Leakage,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1959--1965, April 2009.

• Dutta, S.M., Ghorbel, F.H., and Stanley, R.K., “Simulation and Analysis of 3-Dimensional Magnetic Flux Leakage,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1966--1972, April 2009.

• Landolsi, F. , Ghorbel, F.H. , Lou, J. , Lu, H. and Sun, Y., “Regular and Reverse Nanoscale Stick-Slip Behavior: Modeling and Experiments,” Applied Surface Science 256 (2010) 2577–2582.


• Ghorbel, F.H., "Discussion on: Application of Logarithmic-Based Parameter and Upper Bounding Estimation Rules to Adaptive-Robust Control of Robot Manipulators," European Journal of Control, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 171-175, 2006.

• Wang, Z., and Ghorbel, F.H., "Control of Closed Kinematic Chains Using A Singularly Perturbed Dynamic Model," ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 128, Issue 1, pp. 142-151, March 2006.

• Gandhi, P.S., and Ghorbel, F.H., "High-Speed Precision Tracking with Harmonic Drive Systems Using Integral Manifold Control Design," International Journal of Control, Vol. 78, No. 02, pp. 112-121, January 2005.

• Dabney, J.B., and Ghorbel, F.H., "Enhancing an Advanced Engineering Mechanics Course Using MATLAB and Simulink," The International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 21, No. 5, Pp. 885-895, 2005.

• Dutta, S.M., and Ghorbel, F.H., "Differential Hysteresis Modeling of a Shape Memory Alloy Wire Actuator," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 189-197, April 2005.

• Lu, K., Clark, J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., Robertson, C.S., Ware, D.L., Zwischenberger, J.B., and Bidani, A., "Cerebral Autoregulation and Gas Exchange Studied Using A Human Cardiopulmonary Model," American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol. 286, pp. H584-H601, February 2004.

• Dhaouadi, R., Ghorbel, F.H., "Modeling and Analysis of Hysteresis in Harmonic Drive Gears," Journal of Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation (Accepted).












• Ghorbel, F., Dabney, J., "A Spherical Pendulum System to Teach Key Concepts in Kinematics, Dynamics, Control, and Simulation," IEEE Transactions on Education, HTML format-special CD-ROM issue, Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1999. (also available online here).



  • Gunawardana, R., and Ghorbel, F., "On the Uniform Boundedness of the Coriolis/Centrifugal Terms in the Robot Equations of Motion," International Journal of Robotics & Automation, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 45-53, 1999.
  • Olansen, J.B., Ghorbel, F., Clark Jr., J.W., Deyo, D., Zwischenberger, J.B., and Bidani, A., "An Automated LabVIEW-Based Data Acquisition System for Analysis of Pulmonary Function," Journal of Clinical Engineering, pp. 279-287, July/August 1998.

• Ghorbel, F., Srinivasan, B., Spong., M.W., "On the Uniform Boundedness of the Inertia Matrix of Serial Robot Manipulators," Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 15, No.1, pp. 17-28, January 1998.

  • Ghorbel, F., and Nayfeh, M., "Robotics: From Highly Structured and Predictable Systems to Autonomous Agents," Arab Journal for Science, Vol. 15, No. 30, pp.73-81, 1997 (Invited Paper, In Arabic).

• Ghorbel, F., Gunawardana, R., "A Uniform Bound for the Jacobian of the Gravitational Force Vector for a Class of Robot Manipulators," Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 119, pp. 110-114, March 1997.

• Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M., "Correction to 'Robustness of Adaptive Control of Robots'," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic System, Vol. 10, pp. 209-215, 1994. Ghorbel, March 2, 2006 19

• Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Robustness of Adaptive Control of Robots," Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems, Vol. 6, pp. 3-15, 1992.

• Kumar, A., Odeh, A., Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Robotic Corrosion Inspection Crawler," Materials Performance, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 29-32, 1991.

• Ghorbel, F., Hung, J.H., and Spong, M.W., "Adaptive Control of Flexible Joint Manipulators," IEEE Control System Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 9-13, December, 1989.


    Peer Reviewed Conference Papers



    • Dabney, J.B, Harman, T.L., Ghorbel, F.H., and Chakkungal, J.J., "Model-Based Torque Control of Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors," Proc. of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Chicago, November 5-10, 2006.

    • Zhiyong, W. and Ghorbel, F.H., "Control of Closed Kinematic Chains: A Comparative Study," Proc. of the IEEE American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, June 14-16, 2006.



    • Dabney, J.B, Harman, T.L., Ghorbel, F.H., and Chakkungal, J.J. "Dynamic Response Modeling of Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors," Proc. of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, (9 pages) Orlando, Florida, November 5-11, 2005.




    • Zhiyong, W., Ghorbel, F.H., and Dabney, J.B. "On the Domain and Error Characterization in the Singular Perturbation Modeling of Closed Kinematic Chains," Proc. of the IEEE American Control Conference, pp. 493-498, Boston, MA, June 30-July 2, 2004.

    • Gandhi, P., and Ghorbel, F.H. "Control of Hysteresis and Kinematic Error Nonlinearities in Harmonic Drives for High Speed Precision Control Applications," Proc. of the IEEE American Control Conference, pp. 1135-1140, Boston, MA, June 30-July 2, 2004.


    • Hall, R. A., Lowry, N. C., and Ghorbel, F.H, "Three-Pulse Minimal Fuel Rotations of Axisymmetric Spacecraft Using Reaction Control Thrusters," Proc. of the IEEE American Control Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 1128-1133, June 4-6, 2003, Denver, Colorado.

    • Lu, K., Clark, J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., Robertson, C.S., Ware, D.L., Zwischenberger, J.B., Bidani, A., "Cerebral autoregulation and gas exchange studied using a human cardiopulmonary model," Proc. of the Second Joint Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Vol. 1, pp. 395-397, 17-21 Sept. 2003.
    • Qian, J., Clark, J.W., Lu, K., Ghorbel, F., Zwischenberger, J.B., and Bidani, A., "A Closed-LoopModel of the Ovine Cardiovascular System ," Proc. of the Second Joint Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Vol. 2, pp. 1585-1586, Houston, Texas, October 23-26, 2002.
    • Lu, K., Clark, J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., Ware, D.L., Bidani, A., "A closed-loop Model of Human Gas Exchange," Proc. of the Second Joint Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Vol. 2, pp. 1535-1536, Houston, Texas, October 23-26, 2002.
    • Gandhi, P.S., Ghorbel, F.H., and Dabney, J.B., "Modeling, Identification, and Compensation of Friction in Harmonic Drives," Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 1, pp. 160-166, December 10-13, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada.
    • Dabney, J.B., Ghorbel, F.H., Wang, Z., "Modeling Closed Kinematic Chains via Singular Perturbations," Proc. of the 2002 American Control Conference, Vol. 5, pp. 4104-4110, May 8-10, 2002, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
    • Ghorbel, F.H., Gunawardana, R., Dabney, J.B., "Experimental Validation of A Reduced Model Based Tracking Control of Parallel Robots," Proc. of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 375-382, September 5-7, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico.
    • Lu, K., Clark, J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., Ware, D.L., and Bidani A., "An Integrated Model of the Human Cardiopulmonary System," Proc. of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol. 1, pp. 412-414, 25-28 October 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.
    • Dabney, J.B., and Ghorbel, F.H., "Using the Rice SPENDULAP as a Testbed for Nonlinear Feedback Control," Proc. of the Tunisian-German Conference on Smart Systems and Devices, pp. 70-76, 27-30 March 2001 Hammamet, Tunisia.
    • Ghorbel, F.H., and Gandhi, P.S., "Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Transmission Attributes in Harmonic Drives," Proc. of the Tunisian-German Conference on Smart Systems and Devices, pp. 145-152, 27-30 March 2001 Hammamet, Tunisia.
    • Dabney, J.B. and Ghorbel, F., "Rice SPENDULAP: A Laboratory Apparatus to Illustrate Key Concepts in Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control," Proc. of the ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Division, Vol.1, pp. 89-96, Orlando, FL, November 5-10, 2000. Ghorbel, March 2, 2006 21.
    • Dhaouadi, R. , Ghorbel, F., and Gandhi, P. "Modeling and Analysis of Hysteresis in Harmonic Drive gears," Proc. of the 16th IMACS World Congress, August 21-25, 2000, Lausanne, Switzerland.
    • Ghorbel, F.H., "Research in Robot Motion Control," Proc. of the Workshop on Scientific Research Outlook in the Arab World in the New Millennium: Science and Technology, pp. 1383-1398, University of Sharjah, UAE, April 24-26, 2000.
    • Olansen, J.B., Clark, J.W., Khoury, D., and Ghorbel, F. "Modeling and Identification of Cardiovascular Hemodynamics in a Closed-Loop Model with Ventricular Interaction," The 21st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society/The 1999 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Vol. 1, pg. 253, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 13-16, 1999.
    • Athanasiades, A., Clark Jr., J.W., Ghorbel, F., and Bidani, A., "An Ionic Current Model for Respiratory Neurons in the Rat vNTS and Guinea Pig Nucleus Ambiguus," The 21st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society/The 1999 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Vol. 1, pg. 400, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 13-16, 1999.
    • Gandhi, P., and Ghorbel, F., "Closed Loop Compensation of Kinematic Error in Harmonic Drives for Precision Control Applications," Proc. of the IEEE 38th Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 5, pp. 5268-5270, Phoenix, Arizona, December 7-10, 1999.
    • Dabney, J.B. and Ghorbel, F., "Illustrating Nonlinear Systems Analysis Concepts Using the Rice SPENDULAP," Proc. of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, March 7-9, Dallas, Texas, 1999.
    • Altpeter, F., Ghorbel, F., and Longchamp, R., "Relationship Between Two Friction Models: A Singular Perturbation Approach," Proc. of the IEEE 37th Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1572-1574, Tampa, Florida, Dec. 16-18, 1998.
    • Altpeter, F., Ghorbel, F., and Longchamp, R., "A Singular Perturbation Analysis of Two Friction Models with Application to a Vertical EDM-Axis," Proc. IFAC Workshop on MOTION CONTROL, pp. 7-12, Grenoble, France, Sept 21-23, 1998.
    • Ghorbel, F., Chetelat, O., and Longchamp, R., "On the Modeling and Control of Closed-Chain Mechanisms," Proc. of the IMACS/IEEE International Conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Nabeul-Hammamet, Tunisia, April 1-4, 1998.
    • Ghorbel, F., and Gunawardana, R., "A Validation Study of PD Control of a Closed-Chain Mechanical System," Proc. of the IEEE 36th Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1998-2004, San Diego, December 10-12, 1997.
    • Athanasiades, A., Ghorbel, F., Clark Jr., J.W., Niranjan, S.C., Liu, C.H., Zwischenberger, J.B., and Bidani, A., "Energy Analysis of a Nonlinear Human Lung Model," Proc. of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, DSC-Vol. 61, pp. 433-438, November 16-21, Dallas, Texas, 1997.
    • Abdoulkader, H., Maalej, A., Ghorbel, F., and Loukil, A., "A new Approach of Dynamic Modeling with Application to a Spacial Closed Robot,", 17emes Journees Tunisiennes d'Electrotechnique et d'Automatique, pp. 377-386, Nov. 5-6, Nabeul, Tunisia, 1997.
    • Gunawardana, R., and Ghorbel, F., "PD Control of Closed-Chain Mechanical Systems: An Experimental Study," Proc. of the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Robot Control SYROCO'97, Vol. 1, pp. 79-84, Nantes, France, September 3-5, 1997.
    • Athanasiades, A., Ghorbel, F. , Clark Jr., J.W., Niranjan, S.C., Liu, C.H., Zwischenberger, J.B., and Bidani, A., "The Work of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of Respiratory Mechanics, " Proc. of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 2161-2164, Chicago, October 1997.
    • Athanasiades, A., Liu, C.H., Ghorbel, F., Clark Jr., J.W., Niranjan, S.C., Zwischenberger, J.B., Bidani, A., "Components of the Energy of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of the Human Lung," Proc. of the 18th Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 570-571, October 31- November 3, 1996. Ghorbel, March 2, 2006 22. • Gunawardana, R., and Ghorbel, F., "The Class of Robot Manipulators with Bounded Jacobian of the Gravity Vector," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3677-3682, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 22-28, 1996.
    • Ghorbel, F., "Modeling and PD Control of Closed-Chain Mechanical Systems," Proc. of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 540-542 New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 13-15, 1995.
    • Ghorbel, F., and Gunawardana, R., "On the Uniform Boundedness of the Derivative of the Gravitational Force of Serial Link Robot Manipulators," Proc. of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Vol. DSC-57-1, pp. 99-106, San Francisco, California, November 12-17, 1995.
    • Altpeter, F., Ghorbel, F., and Longchamp, R., "Control of Drives with Flexible Transmission," Proc. of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Motion Control Conference, Munich, Germany, October 9-11, 1995.
    • Ghorbel, F., Altpeter, F., and Longchamp, R., "Integral Manifold Control of a Mechanical System with a Flexible Shaft," Proc. of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics, pp. 722-727, Istanbul, Turkey, August 14-16, 1995.
    • Ghorbel, F., Chetelat, O., and Longchamp, R., "A Reduced Model for Constrained Rigid Bodies with Application to Parallel Robots ," Proc. of the IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, pp. 57-62, Capri, Italy, September 19-21, 1994.
    • Ghorbel, F., B. Srinivasan, and Spong, M.W., "On the Positive Definiteness and Uniform Boundedness of the Inertia Matrix for Robot Manipulators," Proc. of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1103-1108, San Antonio, Texas, December 15-17, 1993.
    • Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Adaptive Integral Manifold Control of Flexible Joint Robots with Configuration Invariant Inertia," Proc. of the American Control Conference, pp. 3314-3318, Chicago, Illinois, June 24-26, 1992.
    • Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Adaptive Integral Manifold Corrective Control of Flexible Joint Robot Manipulators," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 707-714, Nice, France, May 10-15, 1992. • Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Integral Manifold Corrective Control of Flexible Joint Robot Manipulators: The Known Parameter Case," DSC-Vol. 31, Modeling and Control of Compliant and Rigid Motion Systems, pp. 81-93, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1-6, 1991.
    • Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Stability Analysis of Adaptively Controlled Flexible Joint Manipulators, " Proc. of the 29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2538-2544, Hawaii, December 5-7, 1990.
    • Ghorbel, F., Fitzmorris, A., and Spong, M.W., "Robustness of Adaptive Control of Robots: Theory and Experiment," International Workshop on Adaptive and Nonlinear Control: Issues in Robotics, Grenoble, France, November 21-23, 1990.
    • Spong, M.W., and Ghorbel, F., "Robustness of Adaptive Control of Robots," Proc. of the 1991 Symposium on the Control of Robots and Manufacturing Systems, pp. 2-9, Arlington, Texas, November 9, 1990.
    • Spong, M.W., Hung, J., Bortoff, S., and Ghorbel, F., "A Comparison of Feedback Linearization and Singular Perturbation Techniques for the Control of Flexible Joint Robots," Proc. of the American Control Conference, pp. 25-30, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 21-23, 1989.
    • Ghorbel, F., Hung, J.H., and Spong, M.W., "Adaptive Control of Flexible Joint Manipulators," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1188-1193, Phoenix, Arizona, May 14-19, 1989. Other

    Contribution to Handbook

    • Ghorbel, F., "Robot Control," invited handbook section, The Handbook on Industrial Electronics, CRC Press, Florida, April, 1997.



    Other Conference Papers/Posters/Abstracts


    • Gupta, A., V. Patoglu, F. Ghorbel, and M. OMalley, "Vision-based force sensing and multi-rate haptic controller design for nanorobotic manipulation," 23rd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, February 9-10, 2006. (Extended Abstract).


    • Mualim, Y., F. Ghorbel, and M. OMalley, "AFM Nanomanipulation Modeling and Simulation," Associated Nanotechnolgy Congress, Third Annual SPRING (Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology), Rice University, Houston TX, October 10, 2005. (Poster).

    • Gupta, A., M. OMalley and F. Ghorbel, "Rice Nanomanipulation System," Associated Nanotechnolgy Congress, Third Annual SPRING (Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology), Rice University, Houston TX, October 10, 2005. (Poster).

    • Wang, Z., and Ghorbel, F.H., "Adaptive Tracking Control of the Rice Planar Delta Robot," Innovations 2002, University of Houston, Clear Lake. May 16, 2002.

    • Dabney, J.B., and Ghorbel, F.H., "A Millirobotic Crawler for Pipe Inspection," Innovations 2002, University of Houston, Clear Lake. May 16, 2002.

    • McCune, J., Ghorbel, F.H., Dabney, J.B., "Web-based Control of the Rice SPENDULAP," Innovations 2002, University of Houston, Clear Lake. May 16, 2002

    • Dutta, S., Ghorbel, F.H., and Dabney, J.B., "Hysteresis and its Modeling,"

    • Dabney, J.B., Ghorbel, F.H., O'Malley, M.K., "Robotics, Historical Perspective and Current Challenges," A plenary lecture presented at the TSS International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering March 18-20, 2002, Hammamet, Tunisia.

    • Lu, K., Clark, J. W., Ghorbel, F. H., Ware, D. L., and Bidani, A., "A Closed-loop Model of Human Gas Exchange," The Second Joint Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Houston, Texas, October 23-26 2002.

    • Dabney, J.B., and Ghorbel, F.H., "Power and Locomotion of a Millirobotic Crawler," Proceedings of The TSS International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering March 18-20, 2002, Hammamet, Tunisia .

    • Lu, K. , Clark, J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., and Bidani, A. "A Mathematical Model of the Human Cardiopulmonary System," Abstract, Nineteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 56, February 8-9, 2001.

    • Athanasiades, A., Clark Jr. , J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., and Bidani, A., "Neural Regulation of Respiration: A modeling Approach," Eighteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 83, February, 10-11, 2000

    • Lu, K., Olansen, J., Clark Jr. , J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., and Bidani, A., "A Model of the Human Cardiopulmonary System," Eighteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 18, February, 10-11, 2000

    • Clark Jr. , J.W., Alfrey, K., Lu, K., Olansen, J.B., Ghorbel, F., Bidani, A., Andersen, M.C., and Kunze, D.L., "Closed Loop Pacing: Can Cardiovascular System Models be Used as Conceptual Testbeds for Design?," Eighteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 72, February, 10-11, 2000

    • Athanasiades, A., Clark Jr. , J.W., Ghorbel, F.H., and Bidani, A., "An Ionic Current Model for Respiratory Neurons in the Rat Ventral Nucleus Tractus Solitarii," Abstract, Seventeenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 22, February 11-12, 1999

    • Olansen, J.B., Ghorbel, F., and Clark Jr. , J.W., "Integration of Classical Biomedical Experimentation with Modern Data Acquisition and Analysis," Abstract, Seventeenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 37, February 11-12, 1999 Ghorbel, March 2, 2006 24

    • Olansen, J.B., J.W. Clark Jr., F. Ghorbel, Deyo, D., and Bidani, A., "Combining Data Acquisition and Analysis of Pulmonary Function using LabVIEW-Based Algorithms", Abstract, Sixteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p 53, Houston, April 2-3 1998.

    • Niranjan, S.C, Bidani, A., Ghorbel, F., Zwischenberger, J.B., and Clark Jr., J.W., "Analysis of Inspiratory Waveforms on Pulmonary Blood Flow and Gas Exchange During Mechanical Ventilation", Abstract, Sixteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p 158, Houston, April 2-3 1998.

    • Athanasiades A., Olansen, J.B., Ghorbel F., Clark, Jr., J.W., Niranjan S.C., Zwinschenberger J.B., and Bidani A., "Nonlinear Modeling of Human Lung Tissue", Abstract, Sixteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p 159, Houston, April 2-3 1998.

    • Gandhi, P.S., and Ghorbel, F, "On the Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Transmission Attributes in Harmonic Gear Transmission Systems," Abstract, Innovations'98, Gilruth Center, NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, March 31, 1998.

    • Dabney, J.B., and Ghorbel, F, "Continuous Sliding Mode Control of a Rotating Pendulum," Abstract, Innovations'98, Gilruth Center, NASA/Johnson Spapce Center, Houston, TX, March 31, 1998.

    • Athanasiades, A., F. Ghorbel, J.W. Clark Jr., S.C. Niranjan, J.B. Zwischenberger and A. Bidani, "Nonlinear Modeling of Respiratory Mechanics and the Work of Breathing", Abstract, Texas Systems Day '97, p. 6, Rice University, Houston, TX, October 1997.

    • Athanasiades A., Ghorbel F., Clark, Jr., J.W., Niranjan S.C., Liu C.H., Zwinschenberger J.B., and Bidani A., "Identifying Work of Breathing Functions in a Nonlinear Model of Respiratory Mechanics," Abstract No.86, Ann. Biomed. Eng., vol.25 (suppl. 1), p. S-15, 1997, presented at the 1997 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, San Diego, October 1997.

    • Athanasiades, A., C. H. Liu, F. Ghorbel, J.W. Clark Jr., S.C. Niranjan, J.B. Zwischenberger and A. Bidani. "The Work of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of the Human Lung", Abstract, Fifteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p 37, Houston, February 1997.

    • Athanasiades, A., C. H. Liu, F. Ghorbel, J.W. Clark Jr., S.C. Niranjan, J.B. Zwischenberger and A. Bidani, "Components of the Energy of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of the Human Lung", Abstract, Texas Systems Day '96, Dallas, October 1996.

    • Ghorbel, F., and Gunawardana, R., "Modeling and Control of Closed-Chain Mechanisms: Theory and Experiment," Abstract, Texas Systems Day '96, Dallas, October 1996.

    • Ghorbel, F., "Integral Manifold Methods in Control," Abstract, Texas Systems Day '96, Dallas, October 1996.

    • Athanasiades, A., C. H. Liu, F. Ghorbel, J.W. Clark Jr., S.C. Niranjan, J.B. Zwischenberger and A. Bidani, "Components of the Energy of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of the Human Lung", Poster Abstract No. 9, 1996 Retreat on Computational Biology, Galveston, September 1996.

    • Ghorbel, F., "Issues in Robot Control,"Proceedings of the First TSS/ASTA International Conference on Technology Parks and Transfer of Knowledge, pp. 20-22, Tunis, Tunisia, July 22-24, 1996.

    • Ghorbel, F., "Integral Manifold Methods in Control,"Proceedings of the First TSS/ASTA International Conference on Technology Parks and Transfer of Knowledge, pp. 84-86, Tunis, Tunisia, July 22-24, 1996.

    • Athanasiades, A., C. H. Liu, F. Ghorbel, J.W. Clark Jr., S.C. Niranjan, J.B. Zwischenberger and A. Bidani, "Components of the Energy of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of the Human Lung", Poster, Proceedings of the First TSS/ASTA International Conference on Technology Parks and Transfer of Knowledge, p. 201, Tunis, Tunisia, July 22-24, 1996. Ghorbel, March 2, 2006 25

    • Abdoulkader, H., Maalej, A., Ghorbel, F., and Loukil, A., "Une nouvelle approche de modelisation dynamique des robots manipulateurs," 1eres Journees de Mecanique et d'Ingenierie-ENIS, May 2-4, Mahdia, Tunisia, 1996.

    • Athanasiades, A., Ghorbel, F., Clark, J.W., Niranjan, S.C., Bidani, A., and Zwischenberger, J.B., "Components of the Energy of Breathing in a Nonlinear Model of the Human Lung," Abstract, Proc. of the Fourteenth Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, p. 97, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Feb. 8-9, 1996.

    • Ghorbel, F., "Robot Manipulator Motion Control Revisited," Abstract, Texas Systems Day '96, University of Houston, October 1995.

    • Kumar, A., Odeh, A., Ghorbel, F., and Spong, M.W., "Robotic Corrosion Inspection Crawler," Corrosion 90, Paper No. 174, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 23-27, 1990.