Invited Lectures

 [1] G. Tao, P. V. Kokotovic and D. Recker ``Tutorial on adaptive control and application to plants with unknown dead-zone/backlash,'' at the 4th Annual Rockwell International Control and Signal Processing Conference, Anaheim, CA, January 1992.

[2] G. Tao and P. V. Kokotovic, ``Adapting to severe nonlinearities,'' at the NSF Workshop on Nonlinear Control Systems, St. Louis, MO, May 1992.

[3] G. Tao and P. V. Kokotovic, ``Adaptive backlash inverse: numerical implementation for control applications,'' at the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 1992.

[4] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with nondifferentiable nonlinearities,'' at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, January 1993.

[5] G. Tao and P. V. Kokotovic, ``Adaptive inverses of nonsmooth nonlinearities with applications,'' at International Conference on Control Theory and Its Applications, Jerusalem, Israel, October 1993.

[6] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities: some new results,'' at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, June 5, 1994.

[7] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with unknown nonsmooth nonlinearities,'' at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, June 28, 1994.

[8] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control--performance auto-tuning under system uncertainties,'' at the General Electric Company, Salem, VA, June 12, 1996.

[9] G. Tao, ``Adaptive state feedback control applied to a flexible system with friction and backlash,'' at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, August 12, 1997.

[10] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control for uncertain systems,'' at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, May 24 -- May 30, 1998.

[11] G. Tao, ``Backlash compensation control of multivariable nonlinear systems with joint flexibility and damping,'' at Techno Sciences, Inc., Lanham, MD, March 17, 1999.

[12] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures,'' at NASA Langley Research Center, March 15, 2000.

[13] G. Tao and Avinash Taware, ``Control of sandwich nonlinear systems,'' at Techno Sciences, Inc., Lanham, MD, November 9, 2000.

[14] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures,'' at University of Southern California, November 15, 2000.

[15] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures,'' at University of California, Santa Barbara, November 17, 2000.

[16]] G. Tao, ``Adaptive actuator failure compensation for flight control systems,'' at NASA Langley Research Center, August 16, 2001.

[17] G. Tao, ``Adaptive compensation of actuator failures with applications to aircraft control systems,'' at National Institute of Aerospace, May 19, 2003.

[18] G. Tao, ``Adaptive actuator failure compensation for power systems,'' at National Science Foundation's Workshop, November 3, 2003.

[19] G. Tao, ``Adaptive compensation of actuator failures,'' at Yale University, April 16, 2004.

[20] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control techniques for automotive transmission systems,'' at Eaton Corporation, October 20, 2004.

[21] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control technologies for aerospace systems: part I,'' a web-lecture for Boeing Company, April 7, 2005.

[22] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control technologies for aerospace systems: part II,'' a web-lecture for Boeing Company, April 14, 2005.

[23] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control technologies for aerospace systems: part III,'' at Boeing Company, April 21, 2005.

[24] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control: from theory to applications,'' at NUAA, January 4, 2007.

[25] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control'' (a short course), at NASA Langley Research Center and National Institute of Aerospace, May 9--10, 2007.

[26] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 17, 2008.

[27] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control techniques for systems with uncertain actuator nonlinearities and failures'' (an invited tutorial), at the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Chongqing, China, June 2008.

[28] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures'' (a semi-plenary talk), at the 2008 Chinese Control and Decision Conference, July 3, 2008, Yantai, China.

[29] G. Tao and S. M. Joshi, ``Adaptive control techniques for systems under structural uncertainties with aircraft control applications,'' at the 2008 NASA Aviation Safety Technical Conference, Denver, CO, October 21--23, 2008.

[30] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control of systems with actuator failures'' at Concordia University, August 21, 2009.

[31] J. X. Guo and G. Tao, ``Multivariable MRAC of aircraft systems with damage,'' a poster presentation at 2009 NASA Aviation Safety Technical Conference, McLean, VA, November 17-19, 2009.

[32] G. Tao, ``Modeling and multivariable adaptive control of aircraft dynamic systems with damage,'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, December 15, 2009.

[33] G. Tao, ``Multivariable state feedback adaptive control of nonlinear aircraft dynamics with damage,'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 2, 2010.

[34] G. Tao, ``Multivariable model reference adaptive control of aircraft dynamics with damage,'' at Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June 18, 2010.

[35] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control: theory and application,'' at University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, June 21, 2010.

[36] G. Tao, ``Control theory and aircraft flight control,'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, January 7, 2011.

[37] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures and Damage,'' A plenary talk at SIAM-SEAS 2011, Charlotte, NC, March 26, 2011.

[38] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures,'' at Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, May 19, 2011.

[39] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures and Damage,'' A plenary talk at 2011 Chinese Safeprocess Conference, Nanjing, China, August 3, 2011.

[40] G. Tao, ``Control theory and aircraft flight control,'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, January 6, 2012.

[41] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures and Damage,'' at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, March 9, 2012.

[42] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures and Damage,'' at University of Southern California, May 2, 2012.

[43] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures and Damage,'' at Rolls-Royce Corporation, July 10, 2012.

[44] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures and Damage,'' at National University of Mexico, August 31, 2012.

[45] G. Tao, ``Control theory and aircraft flight control,'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, January 6, 2012.

[46] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Detection and Compensation of System Actuator Failures and Structural Damage for Aircraft Flight Control Application,'' at Penn State University, April 2, 2013.

[47] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Fault Accommodation for Aircraft   Flight Control,'' at COMAC, Shanghai, May 20, 2013.

[48] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Fault Accommodation for Aircraft   Flight Control,'' at Hohai University, May 28, 2013.

[49] G. Tao, ``Adaptive control: theory, techniques and   problems,'' at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, June 18,  2013.

[50] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Fault Accommodation Based Resilient  Control Systems,'' (a keynote speech) at the 8th IEEE Conference on  Industrial Electronics and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, June   20, 2013.

[51] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Fault Accommodation Based Resilient  Control Systems,'' at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and  Astronautics, Nanjing, China, October 17, 2014.

[52] G. Tao, ``Adaptive Fault Accommodation Based Resilient  Control Systems,'' at Nanjing University of Science and Technology,   Nanjing, China, December 18, 2014.