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Robert Landers

Advanced Manufacturing Collegiate Professor

Advanced Manufacturing Collegiate Professor
Office
152 Multidisciplinary Research Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email
rlanders@nd.edu

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Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma

Research

Prof. Landers’ energy-related research is concerned with the control-oriented modeling, estimation, and control of fuel cells and lithium ion batteries. The Landers group has stabilized voltage in open-cathode fuel cells via active disturbance rejection and temperature regulation. The group has extended a control-oriented single particle model to include stress-induced diffusion and electrolyte dynamics and created an output injection observer to estimate battery state-of-charge, even at high C rates, by performing on-line estimation of the disturbance model parameters. The Landers group is currently researching control-oriented modeling and estimation of battery state-of-health and fast charging techniques.

Research Interests

Lithium Ion Batteries, Fuel Cells, SOC and SOH Estimation, Fast Charging, Smart Grids, Smart Distribution and Storage

Relevant Energy Publications

  1. Lotfi, Nima, Robert G. Landers, Jie Li, and Jonghyun Park. "Reduced-order electrochemical model-based SOC observer with output model uncertainty estimation." IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 25, no. 4 (2016): 1217-1230.
  2. Li, Jie, K. Adewuyi, Nima Lotfi, Robert G. Landers, and Jonghyun Park. "A single particle model with chemical/mechanical degradation physics for lithium ion battery State of Health (SOH) estimation." Applied energy 212 (2018): 1178-1190.
  3. Lotfi, Nima, Hesam Zomorodi, and Robert G. Landers. "Active disturbance rejection control for voltage stabilization in open-cathode fuel cells through temperature regulation." Control Engineering Practice 56 (2016): 92-100.
  4. Li, J., Nima Lotfi, Robert G. Landers, and Jonghyun Park. "A single particle model for lithium-ion batteries with electrolyte and stress-enhanced diffusion physics." Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164, no. 4 (2017): A874.
  5. Riemann, Brody JC, Jie Li, Kasim Adewuyi, Robert G. Landers, and Jonghyun Park. "Control-Oriented Modeling of Lithium-Ion Batteries." Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control 143, no. 2 (2021): 021002.