Marian Iordache, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Engineering & Engineering Technology LeTourneau University Longview, TX 75607-7001

[Teaching] [Research]

• Faculty at LeTourneau University beginning with August 2004
• Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame between February and August 2004.
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in January 2004, from the University of Notre Dame.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering in May 1999, from the University of Notre Dame.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering--Microsystems in 1997, from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania.
• Diploma of Engineer in Electronics--Computing Systems in 1996 from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania.


Personal Testimony: How I became a follower of Jesus Christ

EEGR3233 Introduction to Microcontrollers [Syllabus] ENGR3423 Mechatronics [Syllabus] EEGR4411 Digital Computer Control Systems EEGR4422 Fuzzy and Adaptive Control Systems

EETC1041 AC Electricity Lab [Syllabus] ENGR2122 Instrumentation and Measurements Lab

The list of publications is available in Bibtex format.

Software

DES toolbox on the supervisory control of Petri nets.

A Concurrency Tool Suite (under development).

Book

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2006), Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach, Birkhauser Boston.

Journal Papers

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2006), "Supervision Based on Place Invariants: A Survey," in Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 16, pp. 451--492.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2006), "Decentralized Supervision of Petri Nets," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51(2), pp. 376--381.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2003), "Design of T-Liveness Enforcing Supervisors in Petri Nets," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48(11), pp. 1962--1974.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2003), "Synthesis of Supervisors Enforcing General Linear Vector Constraints in Petri Nets," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48(11), pp. 2036--2039.

Iordache M. V., J. O. Moody and P. J. Antsaklis (2002), "Synthesis of Deadlock Prevention Supervisors using Petri Nets," in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 18(1), pp. 59-68.

Conference Papers

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2009), "Petri Nets and Programming: A Survey," in the Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference, pp. 4994--4999.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2007), "Petri Net Supervisors for Disjunctive Constraints," in the Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, pp. 4951--4956.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2006), "Reduction of the Supervisor Design Problem with Firing Vector Constraints," in the Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, pp. 215--221.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2005), "A Structural Approach to the Enforcement of Language and Disjunctive Constraints," in the Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, pp. 3920--3925.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2004), "Resilience to Failures and Reconfigurations in the Supervision Based on Place Invariants," in the Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, pp. 4477--4482.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2004), "On a Class of Controlled Invariant Sets," in the Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, pp. 2522--2527.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2003), "Decentralized Control of Petri Nets," in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Discrete Event Systems Control, of the International Conference on the Application and Theory of Petri Nets (ATPN 2003), pp. 143-158.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2003), "Admissible Decentralized Control of Petri Nets," in the Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 332-337.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2003), "Decentralized Control of Petri Nets with Constraint Transformations," in the Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 314-319.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2002), Decentralized Control of Petri Nets, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2002-005, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2002), "Synthesis of Supervisors Enforcing General Linear Vector Constraints in Petri Nets," in the Proceedings of the 2002 American Control Conference, pp. 154-159.

Iordache M. V., P. J. Antsaklis (2001), "T-liveness enforcement in Petri nets based on structural net properties," in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, pp.4984-4989.

Iordache M. V., P. J. Antsaklis (2001), "Generalized Conditions for Liveness Enforcement and Deadlock Prevention in Petri Nets," in Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2001, LNCS vol.2075, pp. 184-203.

Iordache M. V., J. O. Moody, P. J. Antsaklis (2001), "A Method for the Synthesis of Liveness Enforcing Supervisors in Petri Nets," in the Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, pp.4943-4948.

Iordache M. V., J. O. Moody, P. J. Antsaklis (2000), "A Method for the Synthesis of Deadlock Prevention Controllers in Systems Modeled by Petri Nets," in the Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, pp. 3167-3171.

Moody J. O., M. V. Iordache, P. J. Antsaklis (1999) "Enforcement of event-based supervisory constraints using state-based methods," in the Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

Technical Reports

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2009), Synthesis of Concurrent Programs Based on Supervisory Control, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2009-005, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2004), Supervision Based On Place Invariants: A Survey, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2004-003, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2002), Software Tools for the Supervisory Control of Petri Nets Based on Place Invariants, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2002-003, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V. and P. J. Antsaklis (2002), Synthesis of Supervisors Enforcing General Linear Vector Constraints in Petri Nets, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2002-002, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V., J. O. Moody, P. J. Antsaklis (2000), Automated Synthesis of Liveness Enforcing Supervisors Using Petri Nets, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2000-004, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V., J. O. Moody, P. J. Antsaklis (2000), Automated Synthesis of Deadlock Prevention Supervisors Using Petri Nets, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-2000-003, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V., J. O. Moody, P. J. Antsaklis (1999), A Method for Deadlock Prevention in Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets, Technical Report of the ISIS Group, ISIS-99-006, University of Notre Dame.

Theses

Iordache M. V. (2003), Methods for the Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems Based on Petri Net Abstractions, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V. (1999), Deadlock Prevention in Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets, Master's Thesis, University of Notre Dame.

Iordache M. V. (1996), Realization and optimization of a macromodel  library for the simulation of analog VLSI circuits described in the VHDL-A language, Graduation Thesis, Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Book Review

Review of Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control by Blanke et al., in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 49(6), pp. 1037--1038, 2004.