Ali Galip Ulsoy (born 1950) is an academic at the
University of Michigan (UM),
Ann Arbor
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, where he is the C.D. Mote, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of
Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of
Manufacturing.
For his work on dynamic modeling, analysis and control of mechanical systems he was made a fellow of
SME
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,
ASME,
IFAC and
IEEE. He is also a member of the
NAE. In 2012 he received a Presidential Special Award from
TÜBİTAK
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.
Early life and education
Galip Ulsoy was born in
Kozlu, Zonguldak
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,
Turkey where he started elementary school. His family then immigrated to the
USA
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in 1957, before returning to Turkey in 1963. He completed his middle school education at the English High School for Boys in 1966 and his high school education at
Robert College
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in 1969, both in
Istanbul, Turkey.
He received a
B.S. in
Engineering from
Swarthmore College
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in 1973. His
M.S.
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in
Mechanical Engineering was received from
Cornell University in 1975. Ulsoy continued his
Ph.D. studies in Mechanical Engineering at the
University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1979. His thesis on Vibration and Stability of Bandsaw Blades was supervised by
C. Daniel Mote, Jr.
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Career
Ulsoy was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Material Science & Mineral Engineering in the
University of California, Berkeley in 1979, A year later he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986, and to full professor in 1992. In the years 1998-2001 Ulsoy served as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Michigan. During the years 1996-2016 Ulsoy held the William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing chair, and during 2009-2016 he was the C.D. Mote, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He retired in 2016 as an emeritus professor.
Ulsoy was the founding director of the Ground Robotics Reliability Center and Founding Deputy Director of the
NSF
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Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing System at the University of Michigan. He was also Director of the Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems at the
National Science Foundation,
Arlington, Virginia, and a Visiting Researcher at the Ford Scientific Research Laboratories,
Dearborn, Michigan
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.
He was also the Founding Editor of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Magazine, and served as Editor of the ASME Transactions
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control and as a member of the editorial board for several international journals. Ulsoy also served as the President of the
American Automatic Control Council, which is the member organization representing the USA in the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
He was a consultant for various companies and organizations, including: National Science Foundation,
,
Cummins Engine Company
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,
General Motors
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,
LG Production Research, Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development, Sughrue Mion.
During his career, Ulsoy has advised 47 doctoral students and was co-author of five books, over 375 articles, and was a co-inventor on three USA and one European
patents
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. According to
Google Scholar (May 2022) he has more than 18,500 citations and his
h-index is 68.
Research
Ulsoy’s research work focuses on several areas:
dynamics and
control
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(
adaptive control, state derivative
feedback
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, coupling between modeling and
controller
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design, time-delayed systems),
manufacturing automation (
sawing,
turning,
milling
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,
drilling
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,
robotics,
stamping), reconfigurable systems,
mechatronics,
automotive systems (accessory drive belts, active suspensions, vehicle lateral control) and other engineering systems, like disk drives and mineral processing operations.
His basic research contributions in dynamics and control have led to numerous best paper awards, and he is one of the first researchers to apply methods from advanced
control theory to manufacturing systems.
His research work has had impact on industry:
Accessory drive belts and active safety systems in
automobiles
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worldwide utilize methods and technologies that he has developed.
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems,
of which he is a co-inventor, have been widely adopted in industry.
Other commercial systems influenced by his research are: design of
bandsaw blades, design and control of drills, control of machine tools, automotive
suspensions
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, stamping presses,
disk drives, and
ground robots.
Upon receiving the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) Special Award in 2012, his research work was described:
Publications
Books
* Process Control for Sheet Metal Stamping, Y.S. Lim, R. Venugopal and A.G. Ulsoy, Springer, 2014.
* Automotive Control Systems, A.G. Ulsoy, H. Peng and M. Çakmakcı, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.
* Time Delay Systems: Analysis and Control Using the Lambert W Function, S. Yi, P.W. Nelson, A.G. Ulsoy, World Scientific, 2010.
* Microcomputer Applications in Manufacturing (and Solutions Manual), A.G. Ulsoy and W.R. DeVries, Wiley, NY, 1989.
* Sensors and Controls for Manufacturing, E. Kannatey-Asibu, Jr., A.G. Ulsoy, and R. Komanduri (eds.), ASME Publications, NY, Nov. 1985.
Selected articles
* "Tracking Control of Non-Minimum Phase Systems using Filtered Basis Functions," K.S. Ramani, M. Duan, C.E. Okwudire, A.G. Ulsoy, ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 139, No. 1, Jan. 2017.
* "Dynamic Contour Error Estimation and Feedback Modification for High-Speed, HighPrecision Contouring," A. Ghaffari and A.G. Ulsoy, IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Vol. 21, No. 3, June 2016, pp. 1732-1741.
* "Time-Delayed Control of SISO Systems for Improved Stability Margins," A.G. Ulsoy, ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 137, No. 4, April 2015, 041014 (12 pages). (2016 ASME JDSMC Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award).
* "Controllability and Observability of Systems of Linear Delay Differential Equations via the Matrix Lambert W Function," S. Yi, P.W. Nelson, and A.G. Ulsoy, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 3, April 2008, pp 854-860.
* "Identification of Driver Steering Model, and Model Uncertainty, from Driving Simulator Data," L.K. Chen and A.G. Ulsoy, ASME J. Dyn. Syst. Meas. Control, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp 623-29, Dec. 2001. (2003 ASME JDSMC Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award).
* "On the Coupling Between the Plant and Controller Optimization Problems," H.K. Fathy, P.Y. Papalambros, J.A. Reyer, and A.G.Ulsoy, American Control Conf., Arlington, VA, June 2001.
* “Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems,”
Y. Koren, U. Heisel, F. Jovane, T. Moriwaki, G. Pritchow, A.G. Ulsoy and H. VanBrussel, CIRP Annals, Vol. 48, No. 2, 1999, pp. 527- 540 (keynote paper).
* "Identification of Driver State for Lane Keeping Tasks," T. Pilutti, and A.G. Ulsoy, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 29, No. 5, Sept. 1999, pp 486-502.
* "Free Vibration of Serpentine Belt Drive Systems," R.S. Beikmann, N.C. Perkins, and A.G. Ulsoy, ASME J. of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 118, No. 3, July 1996, pp 406-413.
* "Transverse Vibrations of an Axially Accelerating String," M. Pakdemirli, A. G. Ulsoy, and A. Ceranoğlu, J. of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 169, No. 2, 13 Jan. 1994, pp 179-196.
* "Principal Developments in the Adaptive Control of Machine Tools," A.G. Ulsoy, Y. Koren and F. Rasmussen, ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 105, No. 2, June 1983, pp. 107-112
* "Vibration of Wide Band Saw Blades," A.G. Ulsoy and C.D. Mote, Jr., ASME J. of Engineering for Industry, Vol. 104, No. 1, Feb. 1982, pp.71-78.
Honors and awards
* Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1993.
* Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 1996.
* Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award for ASME J. Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 2003 and 2016.
* Member, National Academy for Engineering, “For research on the dynamics and control of axially moving elastic materials and their implementation in automotive and manufacturing systems”, 2006.
* Albert M. Sargent Progress Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2007.
*
Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal "For fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to the analysis and control of dynamic systems with a broad spectrum of applications, from automotive systems to manufacturing systems", ASME, 2008.
* Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2010.
* Special Award from TÜBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council) presented by the President of Turkey, 2012.
* Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from ASME and Pi Tau Sigma, 2013.
* Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “For contributions to flexible automation and manufacturing systems”, 2013.
* Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award in Flexible Automation, International Symposium on Flexible Automation, Awaji Island, Japan, 2014.
*
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award “For seminal research contributions with industrial impact in the dynamics and control of mechanical systems especially manufacturing systems and automotive systems”, American Automatic Control Council, 2020.
Personal life
Galip Ulsoy is married to Susan K. Glowski. They have one daughter, Jessie E. Ulsoy and live in
Dexter, Michigan.
References
External links
Galip Ulsoy University of Michigan
Galip Ulsoy Interview at IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Galip Ulsoy Google scholar
Galip Ulsoy YouTube channel
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Swarthmore College alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Turkish mechanical engineers
American academics of Turkish descent
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1950 births
Turkish engineering academics
21st-century American engineers
Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control
21st-century Turkish engineers
American mechanical engineers
20th-century Turkish engineers
20th-century American engineers
Turkish emigrants to the United States
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from Zonguldak