Curriculum VITA as Professor
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This curriculum vitae outlines the career of Robert M. Edwards, including his educational background in nuclear engineering, employment history focusing on nuclear engineering roles, areas of research interest in nuclear reactor control and simulation, graduate theses supervised, publications, and courses taught at Penn State. Edwards has over 40 years of experience in nuclear engineering and was a professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State until his retirement in 2012.
Curriculum VITA as Professor
- 1. Curriculum VITA as Professor 5/10/2012 Name Robert M. Edwards January 15, 1950 Academic Rank:Professor, full-time; retired July1 ,2012 as Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering. Date of Initial Appointment: January 1987 Degrees BS (1971) – Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University MS (1972)- Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin Ph.D. (1991) – Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University Field of Specialization and Current Areas of Interest: The applications of advanced control, monitoring, and simulation to nuclear reactors and power plants. Current interests include: Hybrid simulation using the Penn State TRIGA reactor and Low-pressure Thermal-Hydraulic Test-Loop coupled to real-time simulations of power plant dynamics; optimal, robust and fault-accommodating control and monitoring systems; optimization and control of balance-of-plant for efficiency improvement; and real-time power-plant simulator development. Previous Employment Summary: 1977 to 1987: Director of Software Development, LeMont Scientific Incorporated, State College, Pennsylvania. Responsible for the refinement and continuing evolution of the company's image analysis systems product line. The LeMont image analysis system interfaced DEC LSI 11 computers to scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectrometers (EDS) with hardware manufactured by LeMont. The analysis system included chemical composition identification. 1976 to 1977: Senior Nuclear Engineer, Combustion Engineering Incorporated, Windsor, Connecticut. Responsible for the computer programming, testing, and documentation for a nuclear reactor core digital protection system. Programming and testing was performed using FORTRAN simulations on a mainframe computer. 1972 to 1976: Engineer, General Atomic Company, San Diego, California. Assignments at General Atomic as follows: 1974 to 1976: Core Performance Branch. Responsible for conducting nuclear reactor fuel performance evaluations during transient conditions such as reactor start-up, load following, and accident conditions. 1973 to 1974: Systems Analysis Branch. Responsible for control systems analysis of the HTGR steam cycle power plant. 1972 to 1973: Computer Applications Branch. Responsible for developing application programs for on-line power plant computers, primarily that of a reactivity surveillance program. Courses Taught at Penn State: designation credits Times taught Title level NucE 505 3 15 Reactor Instrumentation and Control graduate NucE 451 3 17 Experiments in Reactor Physics (lab) senior NucE 497E 3 6 Simulator Design junior/senior ChE 450 3 4 Process Dynamics and Control (Chemical Engr.) senior NucE 003s 1 3 Power Plants & their Simulation (freshman seminar) freshman NucE 597E 3 2 Power Plant Dynamics and Control graduate NucE 597I 3 1 Power Plant Intelligent Distributed Control graduate ME 462 3 1 Microcomputer Interfacing junior/senior NucE 301 4 3 Fundamentals of Reactor Physics junior
- 2. 2 Graduate Theses Supervised. Student Name Type of Degree Granted (Mo/Yr) Title of Thesis Shian-shing Shyu Ph.D. NucE 5/01 A Robust Multivariable Feedforward/Feedback Controller Design for Integrated Power Control of Nuclear Power Plant Zhengyu Huang M.S. E.E. 8/01 Fuzzy Logic Controller Design for Overall Control of a Nuclear Power Plant Zhengyu Huang Ph.D. NucE 5/02 Fuzzy Adapted Sliding Mode Controller Design for a Nuclear Power Plant David Werkheiser M.S. NucE 12/02 Modeling of the Integrated Control System for the Three Mile Island Pressurized Water Reactor Hans Gougar Ph.D. NucE 5/04 Advanced In-Core Fuel management for Recirculating Pebble-Bed Reactors Weidong He Ph.D. NucE 8/09 Stability and Design of Low-Pressure Two-Phase Natural Circulation Yin Guo Ph.D. NucE 8/12 Reliable LQG Controller Design with Sensor Failure for Nuclear Power Plant with IRIS Demonstration A Service to the Profession American Nuclear Society Penn State Student Chapter Advisor, 1999 to present. Organization of Technical Sessions at National and International Meetings: Session chairman of The Eight Power Plant Dynamics, Control, and Testing, Symposium, session on "Control and Diagnostics Applications for Liquid-Metal Reactors," (May 1992). Active Participation on Societies Committees: ANS Human Factors Division Vice Chair/Chair Elect, 2002 to 2003 ANS Human Factors Division Chairman, 2003 to 2004 ANS Operations and Power Division Program Committee, 1997 to 2004 B. Research and/or Scholarly Publications a. Articles published in refereed journals. Ceceñas-Falcón, M., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Application of a Reduced Order Model to BWR Corewide Stability Analysis. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 28:1219-1235. Shyu, S., and R.M. Edwards. 2002. A Robust Multivariable Feedforward/Feedback Controller Design for an Integrated Power Control of Boiling Water Reactor Power Plants. Nuclear Technology. 140:129-146. Ceceñas-Falcón, M., and R.M. Edwards. 2003. Out-of-Phase BWR Stability Monitoring. Nuclear Technology. 143: 125-131. Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards. 2003. Hybrid Reactor Simulation of BWR Power Oscillations. Nuclear Technology. 143:132-143. Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards, 2003. "Power Generation Efficiency Improvement through Auxiliary System Modifications," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. 18:525-529 (First author supervised by candidate). Huang, Z., R.M. Edwards, and K.Y. Lee, 2004. "Fuzzy Adapted Recursive Sliding Mode Controller Design for a Nuclear Power Plant Overall Contol," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 51:256-266. (First Author supervised by candidate.)
- 3. 3 Shaffer, R., W. He, and R.M. Edwards, 2004. "Design And Validation Of Optimized Feedforward With Robust Feedback Control Of A Nuclear Reactor," Nuclear Technology, 147:240-257. (First Author supervised by candidate.) Shaffer, R.A., R.M. Edards, and K.Y. Lee., 2005. "Design and Validation of Robust and Autonomous Control for Nuclear Reactors," Nuclear Engineering and Technology. Turso, J.A., R.M. Edwards, and B.E Turso. 2007 Accommodating Power Plant Anomalies via Artificial Neural Network-Based Reconfigurable Control. Journal of Intelligent Systems. Vol. 16, No 1:75:91(First author supervised by candidate) He, W., and R.M. Edwards, 2008 "Stability Analysis and Design of a Low Pressure Two-Phase Testloop., "Annals of Nuclear Energy. (First author supervised by candidate) Xin Jin, Asok Ray, amd Robert M. Edwards, 2009. "Integrated Robust & Resilient Control of Nuclear Power Plants for Operational Safety and High Performance," IEEE Xin Jin, Robert M. Edwards and Asok Ray, 2009. " Calibration and Estimation of Redundant Sensors for On- Line Monitoring and Control of Nuclear Power Plants," for submisssion to Nuclear Science and Engineering Xin Jin, Robert M. Edwards, and Asok Ray 2009. "Transient Identifiication in Nuclear Power Plants Using Support Vector Machines," for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering Xin Jin, Asok Ray, and R.M. Edwards ,2009. " Optimal Feature Extraction for Fault Diagnosis in Nuclear Power Plants in the Presene of Sensor Degradation", to be submitted to IEEE Yin Guo and Robert M. Edwards, 2009. "Pressure Control for Helical-Coil Steam Generator of IRIS Based on Nonlinear Observer-Based Feedback Dissipation," accepted for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering X. Jin, A. Ray and R. M. Edwards,2010. "Integrated Robust and Resilient Control of Nuclear Power Plants for Operational Safety and High Performance," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 57, no. 2, part 2, pp. 807-817 X. Jin, Y. Guo, S. Sarkar, A. Ray and R. M. Edwards, 2011. "Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Power Plant via Symbolic Dynamic Filtering," IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science. b. Articles published in refereed proceedings He, W., Z. Huang, and R.M. Edwards. 2002. Advanced BWR Stability Monitoring Tests with a Hybrid Reactor Facility. Proceedings of American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting, International Congress on Advanced Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP), 6 pages on CD ROM. Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards. 2002. Sliding Mode Control Application in ABWR Plant Pressure Regulation. Proceedings of American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting, International Congress on Advanced Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP), June 2002. 8 pages on CD ROM. Cetiner, S.M., and R.M. Edwards. 2002. Results of Coupling a Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop and University Research Reactor. Proceedings of American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting, International Congress on Advanced Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP). 7 pages on CD ROM. Huang, Z., K.Y. Lee, and R.M. Edwards. 2002. Fuzzy Logic Control for Nuclear Power Plant Overall Control. Proceedings of 15th IFAC World Congress. Barcelona, Spain. 6 pages on CD ROM. Pauley, L.L., R.M. Edwards, and L.E. Hochreiter. 2003. The Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Multiple Majors Program at the Pennsylvania State University. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition. Nashville, TN. 9 pages on CD ROM.
- 4. 4 Pauley, L.L., R.M. Edwards, and L.E. Hochreiter, 2003. "The Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Multiple Majors Program at the Pennsylvania State University," Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition. Nashville, TN. 9 pages on CD ROM. (Equal contributions by authors.). Xin Jin, Robert M. Edwards and Asok Ray, 2008. "Integrated Robust and Resilient Control for Nuclear Power Plants" Proceedings of The sixth Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Control and Human Machine Interface Technologies. (First author supervised by candidate) X. Jin, R. M. Edwards, and A. Ray, 2008. "Integrated Robust and Resilient Control for Nuclear Power Plants", in Proceedings of 6th ANS International Topical Meeting on NPIC & HMIT, Knoxville, TN. Y. Guo, X. Jin and R. M. Edwards, 2010. "State Observer Design for IRIS Reactor based on Dissipation- based High Gain Filter," in the Proceeding of 7th NPIC & HMIT Topical Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 7- 11, 2010. X. Jin, Y. Guo, R. M. Edwards and A. Ray, 2010. "Data-driven Fault Detection in Nuclear Power Plants under Sensor Degradation," in the Proceeding of 7th NPIC & HMIT Topical Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 7-11. c. Papers refereed by abstract Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Simulation of BWR Out-of-Phase Oscillation Using a University Research Reactor. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. Student Conference. College Station, TX. 7 pages on CD ROM. He, W., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Robust Design an Evaluation of On-line Uncertainty Monitoring System on a Reactor. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. Student Conference. College Station, TX. 6 pages on CD ROM. Cetiner, M., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. The Pennsylvania State University Low Pressure Integral Test Facility Data Acquisition System and User Interface. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. Student Conference. College Station, TX. 7 pages on CD ROM. Erhard, R.P, D.L. Werkheiser, and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Simulator Design and Man / Machine Interfacing. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. Student Conference. College Station, TX. 6 pages on CD ROM. Erhard, R.P., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Web Based Reactor Experiments. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. Student Conference. College Station, TX. 6 pages on CD ROM. Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Hybrid Reactor Simulation and 3-D Information Display of BWE Out- of-Phase Oscillation. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. 84:99-100. Milwaukee, WI. He, W., and R.M. Edwards. 2001. Evaluation of a Reactor On-Line Uncertainty Monitoring System. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. 84:111-112. Milwaukee, WI. Cetiner, S.M., L.E. Hochreiter, R.M. Edwards, W. He, and Z. Huang. 2001. Two-Phase Natural Circulation Experiments in The Penn State Low-Pressure Integral Test Facility. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. 85:311- 333. Reno, NV. Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards. 2002. ABWR Plant Overall Control Using Fuzzy Logic Control Technique. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. 86:180-182. Hollywood, FL. Cetiner, S.M., and R.M. Edwards. Integration of a Thermal-Hydraulic Test Loop and University Research Reactor For Advanced Control. 2002. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. 86:195-196. Hollywood, FL. He, W., and R.M. Edwards. 2002. Evaluation of in-phase BWR Stability Monitor with a Hybrid Reactor Facility. Trans. of the Amer. Nucl. Soc. 86:242-243. Hollywood, FL. Meyers, G.L., and R.M. Edwards. 2004. Internet Access to Reactor Control Experiments. Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and
- 5. 5 Human-Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC&HMIT'2004, 8 pages on CDROM. (First author supervised by candidate.) He, W., and R.M. Edwards. 2004. Stability Analysis Results for a Two-Phase Test Loop. Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC&HMIT'2004, 11 pages on CDROM. (First author supervised by candidate.) Edwards, R.M., R.A. Shaffer, and S.A. Arndt, 2006. “Modeling Digital Control Systems in TRACE., Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC&HMIT'2006, 12 pages on CDROM. Xin Jin, Asok Ray, and Robert Edwards, 2009. "Integrated Robust and Resilient Control for Nuclear Power Plants", Proceedings of the 2009 ANS Winter Meeting, Washington, DC Yin Guo, Robert M. Edwards, 2009. "Reliable LQG Controller Design with Sensor Failure for Nuclear Power Plant with IRIS Demonstration, " Proceedings of the 2009 ANS Winter Meeting, November 2009, Washington DC. Xin Jin, Asok Ray and Robert M. Edwards, 2009. "Redundant Sensor Calibration and Estimation for Monitoring and Control of Nuclear Power Plants,", Proceedings of the ANS Winter Meeting, November, 2009 X. Jin, A. Ray and R. M. Edwards, 2010. "Feature Extraction for Data-driven Fault Detection in Nuclear Power Plants," in Transactions of American Nuclear Society, vol. 102, pp. 163-164, June 2010 d. Research projects completed. July 1999 – July 2003 Title: Monitoring and Control Research Using a University Reactor and SBWR Test-loop Submitted to: Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering Education and Research Amount: $380,791 PI 100% July 1998 – June 2003 Title: Simulator Design Submitted to: Penn State College of Engineering, PECO Energy Gift funds, and Tuition Surcharge Amount: $56,000 PI 100% October 2007-December 2010 Title: Advanced Instrumentation and Control Methods for Small Export Reactors with IRIS Demonstration Submitted to: DOE Amount: $471,017 PI 100%
- 6. 6 C. Research reports to sponsor. Edwards, R.M., December 2000. Monitoring and Control Research Using a University Research Reactor and SBWR Test-Loop, Phase 2 Topical Report. Report to: U.S. Department of Energy. 7 pages. Edwards, R.M., January 2002. Monitoring and Control Research Using a University Research Reactor and SBWR Test-Loop, Phase 3 Topical Report. Report to: U.S. Department of Energy. 18 pages. Edwards, R.M., February 2003. Monitoring and Control Research Using a University Research Reactor and SBWR Test-Loop, Annual Report. Report to: U.S. Department of Energy. 4 pages Edwards, R.M., August 2003. External Interface to SIMULINK. Report to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 29 pages. Edwards, R.M., January 2011, Advanced Instrumentation and Control Methods for Small Export Reactors with IRIS Demonstration, Report to the U.S. Department of Energy. D. Participation in, and description of, seminars and workshops Seminar/Workshop Title _ Dates Sponsor Role Instrumentation, Control and Human Machine Interface Workshop 5/15/02- 5/17/02 Department of Energy Participant I&C HMI Technology Working Group Meeting 11/16/02 Department of Energy and Electric Power Research Institute Invited Presenter