Publications



Journal Papers

R. C. Hill, J. Cury, M. de Queiroz, D. M. Tilbury, and S. Lafortune, "Multiple-Level Hierarchical Interface-Based Supervisory Control," Automatica, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 2010, pp. 1152-1164.

R.C. Hill, J. Lockwood, and Y. Li. "Diagnostics Design Process for Developmental Vehicles," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Electron. Electr. Syst. 3:1-9, 2010.

R.C. Hill, D.M. Tilbury, and S. Lafortune. "Modular Supervisory Control with Equivalence-based Abstraction and Covering-Based Conflict Resolution," Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 491-498.

R.C. Hill and D.M. Tilbury. "Incremental Hierarchical Construction of Modular Supervisors for Discrete-Event Systems," International Journal of Control, Vol. 81, No. 9, September 2008, pp 1364-1381.


Conference Papers

J. Goryca and R.C. Hill. " Formal Synthesis of Supervisory Control Software for Multiple Robot Systems," Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Washington D.C., June 2013.

A. Niedert, R.C. Hill, and N. Rayess. "Modeling, Control, and Simulation of an Omni-directional Robotic Ground Vehicle," Proceedings of the 2012 ASME Dynamics Systems and Controls Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 2012.

R.C. Hill. "Development of an Introductory Course on the Modeling and Control of Advanced Electric Vehicles," Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

R.C. Hill and K.A. Plantenberg. "A Conceptual Approach to Undergraduate Dynamics Instruction: A Work in Progress," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education North Central Section Conference, Ada, OH, March 2012.

M. Sartini, A. Paoli, R.C. Hill, and S. Lafortune. " A Methodology for Modular Model Building in Discrete Automation," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies in Factory Automation, Bilboa, Spain, Sept 2010.

R.C. Hill and P. Pena. "International Collaboration in an Undergraduate Controls Systems Course," Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY, June 2010.

R.C. Hill, J. Lockwood, and Y. Li. "Diagnostics Design Process for Developmental Vehicles," Proceedings of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress Detroit, MI, April 2010.

R.C. Hill. "Effective Use of Simulation in the Introductory Controls Curriculum," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education North Central Section Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, April 2009.

R.C. Hill, D.M. Tilbury, and S. Lafortune. "Modular Supervisory Control with Equivalence-Based Conflict Resolution," Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008.

R.C. Hill, J. Cury, M. Queiroz, and D.M. Tilbury. "Modular Requirements for Hierarchical Interface-Based Supervisory Control with Multiple Levels," Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008.

R.C. Hill, D.M. Tilbury, and S. Lafortune. "Covering-Based Supervisory Control of Partially Observed Discrete Event Systems for State Avoidance," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES), Gotheborg, Sweden, May 2008.

R.C. Hill and D.M. Tilbury. "Modular Supervisory Control with Abstraction and Incremental Hierarchical Construction," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES), Chicago, IL, July 2006.

Richard Hill and Dawn Tilbury. "Introducing Discrete-Event Systems into an Undergraduate Controls Course," Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Annual Exposition, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2006.

Michael Uchanski, Massimiliamo Gobbi, Rick Hill and J.K. Hedrick. "Experimental Results Using Sliding Mode Controller with Nonsmooth Adaptation," International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), 2000.


Book Chapters

Stephane Lafortune, Richard Hill, and Andrea Paoli, “Fault Diagnosis of Manufacturing Systems using Finite State Automata,” in Formal Methods in Manufacturing, J. Campos, C. Seatzu, X. Xie, Editors, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2013, Chapter 22.

Richard Hill, “Discrete Event Systems,” in The Control Handbook, Control System Fundamentals: Second Edition, W. Levine, Editor, CRC Press, 2010, Section 5.5, pp. 81-99.


Books

Kirstie Plantenberg and Richard Hill, Conceptual Dynamics, SDC Publications, 2013.


Theses

Richard Hill. "Modular Approaches to the Design and Verification of Discrete-Event Systems using Abstraction and Incremental Construction," PhD Thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008.

Richard Hill. "Nonlinear Slip-based Brake Control and Accompanying Road Force Observation," Masters Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2000.