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Vladimir O. NIKIFOROV

Vladimir O. Nikiforov was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on March 12, 1963. He received Electrical Engineering Degree in 1986 from Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (IFMO). In 1991 he received Ph.D. Degree from IFMO. His Ph.D. thesis were entitled "Adaptive control of trajectory motion of electro-mechanical systems". He received Doctor of Science Degree from the same Institute in 2001. His D.Sc. thesis were entitled "Adaptive and robust control with compensation of external disturbances".
From 1991 to 2001 Nikiforov took different positions in IFMO: 1991-1992 Researcher in the Department of Automatic and Remote Control; 1992 Lecturer in the same Department; 1992 to 2001 Associate Professor in the Department of Automatic and Remote Control. In 1991 Nikiforov visited the Division of Automatic Control headed by Prof. L. Ljung, Linkoping University (Sweden).
From 1993 to present he also took different part-time positions: 1993-1994 and since 2000 part-time Senior Researcher in the laboratory "Control of Control Systems" headed by Prof. A. Fradkov in the Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences; 1994-1997 part-time Associate Professor in the Saint-Petersburg University of Printing Industry; 1999 to present part-time Senior Researcher in the Federal Scientific-Research Institute "Elektropribor", Saint-Petersburg.

Vladimir O. Nikiforov is currently Vice-Rector of the Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, Professor in the Department of Control and Information Systems in IFMO, member of Technical Committee on Adaptive Control of the International Federation on Automatic Control, Scientific Secretary of the Regional Group on Automatic Control of the Russian National Committee on Automatic Control.

His research interests are in the following fields:

  • adaptive and nonlinear control of complex systems;
  • trajectory motion control of linear and nonlinear systems;
  • adaptive servomechanism problem;
  • digital control systems.

Since 1985 to present V. Nikiforov took part in more than twenty research projects. Among them:

  • computer-based control systems for ship screw-propeller motors;
  • adaptive control for trajectory motion of nonlinear systems;
  • development and computer-aided design of high-precision path following control systems;
  • digital control for a brushless DC motor of a mechatronic revolving table: design and experimental investigation;
  • output-feedback adaptive control of linear and nonlinear systems;
  • active vibroizolation systems: design and experimental investigation;
  • adaptive compensation of external disturbances.

The list of published works includes more than 60 titles. The main publications are the following:

      BOOK

[1] Fradkov A.L., Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Complex Systems.
Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

      JOURNAL PAPERS

[2] Nikiforov V.O., Voronov K.V.
Adaptive backstepping with high-order tuner.
Automatica. 2001, vol.37. p.1953-1960.

[3] Nikiforov V.O.
Nonlinear servocompensation of unknown external disturbances.
Automatica, 2001, vol.37, p.1647-1653.

[4] Koroleva O.I., Nikiforov V.O.
Nonlinear robust control for a linear plant.
Automation and Remote Control, 2000, no.4.

[5] Nikiforov V.O.
Robust high-order tuner of simplified structure.
Automatica, 1999, vol.35, n.8, p.1409-1415.

[6] Nikiforov V.O.
Output-feedback robust control law for linear plant.
Automation and Remote Control, 1998. no.9.

[7] Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive non-linear tracking with complete compensation of unknown disturbances.
European Journal of Control, vol.4, no.2, 1998, pp.132-139.

[8] Nikiforov V.O.
Nonlinear control system with complete rejection of external disturbances.
Izvestiya RAN. Teoriya i Systemi Upravleniya. 1997, no.4, pp.69-73. (in Russian)

[9] Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive stabilization of a linear system subjected to external deterministic disturbances.
Izvestiya RAN. Teoriya i Systemi Upravleniya, 1997, no.2, pp.103-106. (in Russian)

[10] Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive servomechanism controller with an implicit reference model.
Int. Journal of Control, 1997, vol.68, no.2, pp.277-286.

[11] Miroshnik I.V. Nikiforov V.O.
Coordinating control of robotic manipulator.
International Journal of Robotic and Automation, 1995, v.11, N3, p.101-105.

[12] Nikiforov V.O.
Output-feedback adaptive control. Parts I and II.
Izvestiya vuzov - Priborostroenie. 1996, no.8-9, pp.50-56. 1997, no.4, pp.28-33. (in Russian)

[13] Druzhinina M.V., Nikiforov V.O., Fradkov A.L.
Methods of output-feedback adaptive control of nonlinear systems. A survey.
Automation and Remote Control, 1996, no.2.

[14] Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptation algorithm with astatism of the second order.
Automation and Remote Control, 1995, no.7.

[15] Nikiforov V.O., Fradkov A.L.
Adaptive control systems with augmented errors. A survey.
Automation and Remote Control, 1994, 9, pp.1239-1255.

[16] Nikiforov V.O., Okun' A., Michailov F.
High-precision interpolators for the path following systems.
Izvestia vuzov - Mashinostroenie, 1993, 6, pp.118-122 (in Russian).

[17] Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive control of spatial motion of nonlinear plants.
Automation and Remote Control, 1991, part. I, pp.1238-1246.

[18] Nikiforov V.O.
A stable gradient algorithm of adaptation using an output signal.
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 1992, vol.6, no.2, pp.265-269.

[19] Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Acceleration of a gradient algorithm convergence.
Izvestiya vuzov - Priborostroenie. 1991, no.8, pp.76-83. (in Russian)

[20] Boltunov G.I., Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Multistructural control of a ship electric drive.
Izvestiya vuzov - Priborostroenie. 1986, no.8, pp.17-21. (in Russian)

      CONFERENCE PAPERS:

[21] Nikiforov V.O., Voronov K.V.
Adaptive backstepping with high-order tuner.
IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 2001, St.Petersburg, vol.1, p.110-115.

[22] Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive nonlinear servocompensation of unknown external disturbances.
14th IFAC World Congress. Beijing, China, 1999, vol.I. p.283-289.

[23] Pogromsky A. Yu., Nikiforov V.O.
Smooth output-feedback adaptive compensator of external disturbances for nonlinear systems.
IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, 1998, vol.1, p.110-115.

[24] Nikiforov V.O.
Modified adaptive controller for linear plants with improved parametric robustness and transient performance.
European Control Conference'97, Brussels, Belgium, 1997.

[25] Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive controller rejecting uncertain deterministic disturbances in SISO systems.
European Control Conference'97, Brussels, Belgium, 1997.

[26] Nikiforov V.O.
Adaptive servocompensation of input disturbances.
13rd IFAC World Congress, San-Francisco, USA, 1996, vol.K, pp.175-180.

[27] Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Trajectory motion control and coordination of multi-link robots.
13rd IFAC World Congress, San-Francisco, USA, 1996, vol.A, pp.361-365.

[28] Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Redundant manipulator motion control in the task-oriented space.
Proc. IFAC Workshop on Motion Control, 1995, Munich, pp.648-655.

[29] Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O.
Coordinating control and self-learning of robot trajectory motion.
Proc. 4th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Italy, Sept., 1994, p.811-816

E-mail: nikifor@ait.beam.ifmo.ru