Douglas Isenberg
Areas of Expertise
External Links
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Education
- Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University of North Carolina System : Charlotte
Courses Taught
AE325/326 - Experimental Space System Engineering Laboratory
CEC222 - Digital Circuit Laboratory
ECGR3111 - Signals and Systems (UNCC)
EE328 - Feedback Control Systems (USA)
EE372 - Introduction to Communication Systems (USA)
EE526 - Introduction to Robotics (USA)
EGR101 - Introduction to Engineering
EGR115 - Introduction to Computing for Engineers
ME302 - Introduction to Robotics I
ME404 - Mechatronics
ME404L - Mechatronics Laboratory
ME406 - Robotics II
ME407 - Preliminary Design of Robotic Systems
ME420 - Detailed Design of Robotic Systems
ME495D - Identification and Control of Sampled Data Systems
ME495H - Introduction to Robot Operating System
UNIV101 - College Success
Research Projects
Publications
D.R. Isenberg, J.K, Weisshaupt, B.M. Rookaird, J.M. Smith, B.H. Winterling, “Identifying the Thermal
Parameters and Controlling the Temperature of High-Altitude Balloon Payloads”, Proceedings: 3rd Annual
Academic High-Altitude Conference, Nashville, TN, 2012, pp. 1-14
D.R. Isenberg, “On the Error-Quaternion,Quaternion-Difference, and Control Effort of Quaternion Based
Attitude Control Laws”, Proceedings: 22nd International Conference on Systems Engineering, Coventry,
England, 2012, pp. 100-105
D.R. Isenberg, J. Crabtree, “Analysis of Post-Balloon Burst Gondola Collisions”, Proceedings: AIAA Balloon
Systems Technology Conference, Dayton Beach, FL, 2013
J. Meduvsky, M. Howeth, C. Katan, D.R. Isenberg, “Validation Results of Pressure Independent First-Order
Thermal Models of High-Altitude Balloon Gondolas”, Proceedings: 4th Annual Academic High-Altitude
Conference, Upland, IN., 2013
Y.H. Amengonu, Y.P. Kakad, D.R. Isenberg, “The Control Moment Gyroscope Inverted Pendulum”, Advances
in Systems Science, Vol. 240, 2014, pp. 109-118
A. Jain, D.R. Isenberg, “A Low-Cost Attitude Determination System using Multiple Sensors for High-Altitude
Balloon Flights”, Proceedings: 5th Annual Academic High-Altitude Conference, Grand Forks, ND, 2014
D.R. Isenberg, “Sensorless Force Estimation for a Two-LinkManipulator Based Upon Linear Dynamics ”,
Progress in Systems Engineering: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Systems Engineering,
Las Vegas, NV, 2015, pp. 315-322
D.R. Isenberg, “Target Rendezvous with a Space Robot using Relative Position and Attitude Measurements”,
Proceedings: IEEE SoutheastCon, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2015
N. Muraleedharan, D.R. Isenberg, I. Gentilini, “Recreating Planar Free-Floating Environment on Earth via
Force-Feedback Control”, Proceedings: IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 2016
D.R. Isenberg, “Control of Systems with Pfaffian Constraints: Motivation for Kane's Formulation”,
Proceedings: IEEE SoutheastCon, Norfolk, VA, 2016
N. Muraleedharan, D. Cohen, D.R. Isenberg, “Omnidirectional Locomotion Control of a Pendulum Driven
Spherical Robot”, Proceedings: IEEE SoutheastCon, Norfolk, VA, 2016
D.R. Isenberg, “A Potential Field Inspired Approach to Attitude Motion Planning with Unit-Quaternions”,
Proceedings: IEEE SoutheastCon, Charlotte, NC, 2017
D.R. Isenberg, “A Task Space Control Law for Free-Floating Space Robots”, Proceedings: International
Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, 2017
Professional Experience
Instrumentation and Controls Engineer I, Areva NP, Charlotte, NC, 2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2010-2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2011-2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama, 2016-2017
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2017-2018
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2018-present