Clarence W. de Silva, P.Eng.
Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mechatronics and Industrial Automation
B.Sc. Engrg (Hon 1,Ceylon), M.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (MIT), Ph.D. (Cambridge), D.Eng. (Hon, Waterloo), Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, Fellow ASI, Fellow CAE, Fellow Royal Society of Canada
ph: (604) 822-6291; Lab: (604) 822-4850
fx: (604) 822-2403
email: desilva@mech.ubc.ca
lab website: Industrial Automation Laboratory
Research Interests
- Intelligent Control
- Robotics
- Process Automation
- Mechatronics
- Control Sensors and Actuators
Current Research Work
- Knowledge-based intelligent control of cooperative robots and industrial processes
- Intelligent sensor fusion for machine health monitoring and supervisory control
- Instrumentation of processes for control (sensors, actuators, and mechatronic design in particular)
- Computer vision applications in process control, and robotics
- Formal techniques for mechatronic system design and evaluation (Mechatronic Design Quotient or MDQ)
Editorial
- Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, Editor-in-Chief
- IEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Management Committee Member
Selected Publications
- De Silva, C.W., MODELING AND CONTROL of Engineering Systems, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009
- De Silva, C.W., SENSORS AND ACTUATORS—Control System Instrumentation, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2007.
- De Silva, C.W., Vibration Fundamentals and Practice, 2nd Edition, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2007.
- De Silva, C.W., Mechatronics—An Integrated Approach, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005.
- Karray, F.O. and de Silva, C.W., Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems Design—Theory, Tools, and Applications, Addison Wesley, New York, NY, 2004.
- Wang, Y. and de Silva, C.W., “Sequential Q-learning with Kalman Filtering for Multi-robot Cooperative Transportation,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (accepted).
- Behbahani, S. and de Silva, C.W., “System-based and Concurrent Design of a Smart Mechatronic System Using the Concept of Mechatronic Design Quotient (MDG),” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 14-21, Feb. 2008.
- Wierzbicki, M. and de Silva, C.W., “Design Tools for Foldable Structures with Application of Fuzzy Logic,” International Journal of Architectural Computing, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 645-662, 2008.
- De Silva, C.W. and Wang, Y., “Control Output Devices—Actuators and Data Display Devices for Process Automation,” IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol. 11, no.1, pp. 38-45, Feb. 2008.
- Wang, Y. and de Silva, C.W., “A Machine Learning Approach to Multi-robot Coordination,” IFAC International Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, pp. 470-484, 2008
- Tang, P.L. and de Silva, C.W., “Stability Validation of a Constrained Model Predictive Networked Control System with Future Input Buffering,” International Journal of Control, Vol. 8-, No. 12, pp. 1954-1970, December 2007.
- Huang, S.N., Tan, K.K., Wong, Y.S., de Silva, C.W., Goh, H.L., and Tan, W.W., “Tool Wear Detection and Fault Diagnosis Based on Cutting Force Monitoring,” International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, March 2007 (2nd most downloaded paper, Science Digest).
