Professor Wallace M. Bessa

Technische Universität Hamburg Mechanik und Meerestechnik Eißendorfer Straße 42 (M) 21073 Hamburg Gebäude M Raum 0517 +49 40 428 78 32 20 wmbessa@ct.ufrn.br

Research Interests

• Non Linear Control
• Intelligent Systems
• Control of Underactuated Systems
• Sliding-Mode-Control
• Fuzzylogic

Selected Publications

• W.M. Bessa, A.S. de Paula,  M.A. Savi: "Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control of a chaotic pendulum with noisy signals". In: Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 94(3), 256-263 (2014).
• W.M. Bessa, M.S. Dutra, E. Kreuzer: "Dynamic Positioning of Underwater Robotic Vehicles with Thruster Dynamics Compensation". In: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 10:325 (2013).
• M.C. Tanaka, J.M.M. Fernandes, W.M. Bessa: "Feedback Linearization with Fuzzy Compensation for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems". In: International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control 8(5), 736-743 (2013).
• W.M. Bessa, A.S. de Paula,  M.A. Savi: "Sliding mode control with adaptive fuzzy dead-zone compensation for uncertain chaotic systems". In: Nonlinear Dynamics 70(3), 1989-2001 (2012).
• W.M. Bessa, M.S. Dutra, E. Kreuzer: "An adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller for remotely operated underwater vehicles". In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems 58(1), 16-26 (2010).
• W.M. Bessa, M.S. Dutra, E. Kreuzer: "Sliding Mode Control with Adaptive Fuzzy Dead-Zone Compensation of an Electro-hydraulic Servo-System". In: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 58(1), 3-16 (2010).
• W.M. Bessa, A.S. de Paula,  M.A. Savi: Chaos control using an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller with application to a nonlinear pendulum". In: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 42(2), 784-791 (2009).
• W.M. Bessa, M.S. Dutra, E. Kreuzer: "Depth control of remotely operated underwater vehicles using an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller". In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56(8), 670-677 (2008).
  
  

Status

• Prof. Dr. Wallace M. Bessa from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte is a Humboldt-Stipendiat at the Institute of Mechanics and Ocean Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology since August 2015 until January 2017. His principal intresrt focuses on controlling of underactuated machenical systems.

Further Informations

• www.docente.ufrn.br/wmbessa (portugiesisch)