Select Publications

  • L. J. Brown, "Power Supply and Control Equipment for a Resistance Welding Machine", U.S. Patent #6,825,435, Nov. 30, 2004.

  • J. Lin and L. J. Brown, "System Identification and Modeling of Resistance Spot Welding Machines", American Welding Society, 2005.

  • J. Lin and L. J. Brown, "A Novel High-Frequency Switching DC Power Supply For Small Scale Resistance Spot Welding", American Welding Society, 2005.

  • J. Xiao and L. J. Brown, "Electrode Degradation and Identification in Resistance Spot Welding by Intelligent Machine Learning", American Welding Society, 2005.

  • Y. Zhou, S. Fukumoto, J. Peng, C. T. Ji, L. Brown, "Experimental Simulation of Surface Pitting of Degraded Electrodes in Resistance Spot Welding of Aluminum Alloys", Mater. Sci. Technol., 2004.

  • J. Peng, S. Fukumoto, L. Brown and Y. Zhou, "Image Analysis of Electrode Degradation in Resistance Spot Welding of Aluminum", Sci. Technol. Weld. Join., 2004.

  • L. J. Brown and J. S. Schwaber, 2000, "Identifying Operating Conditions from Pre-Weld Information for Resistance Spot Welding", Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference.

  • L. J. Brown and J. S. Schwaber, 1999, "Intermittent Cancellation Control", Proceedings of the 1999 America Control Conference, pp 139-143.

  • L. J. Brown and S. P. Meyn, 1998, "Adaptive Dead-Time Compensation with Application to a Robotic Welder", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 6, pp 335- 349.

  • L. J. Brown and G. E. Gonye and J. S. Schwaber, 1998, "Non-linear PI Control Inspired by Biological Control Systems", Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 1040-1045.

  • L. J. Brown and G. E. Gonye and J. S. Schwaber, 1999, "A Biologically Inspired Non-linear Modified PI Controller", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, pp 975-981.

  • L. J. Brown and S. P. Meyn, 1995, "Adaptive Dead-Time Compensation", Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 3435-3437.

  • L. J. Brown and J. S. Schwaber, "Monitoring Tool Fixture Variations and Electrode Condition in Resistance Spot Welding", submitted to Welding Journal.

  • L. J. Brown, G. E. Gonye, and J. S. Schwaber, "A Novel Non-linear PI Control Algorithm Motivated by Mammalian Blood Pressure Regulation", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology.