Control and identification of dynamical systems. Optimal and adaptive control of distributed systems, including flexible structures and fluid flows. Adaptive filtering, identification, and noise cancellation.

• N. O. Pérez-Arancibia, James S. Gibson, and Tsu-Chin Tsao, “Observer-Based Intensity-Feedback Control for Laser Beam Pointing and Tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 20(1), 31-47, January 2012.
• Pérez-Arancibia, N.O., Tsao, T.-C., and Gibson, J.S., “A new method for synthesizing multiple-period adaptive-repetitive controllers and its application to the control of hard disk drives,” Automatica (Journal of IFAC), 46(7), 1186-1195, 2010.
• N. O. Pérez-Arancibia, J. S. Gibson, and T.-C. Tsao, “Frequency-Weighted Minimum-Variance Adaptive Control for Laser Beam Jitter Suppression,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol.14, no. 3, pp. 337-348, Jun. 2009.
• N. O. Pérez-Arancibia, T.-C. Tsao , and J. S. Gibson, “Saturation-Induced Instability and its Avoidance in Adaptive Control of Hard Disk Drives,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 18, no 2, pp. 368-382, March 2010.
• J.S. Gibson, I.G. Rosen, and G. Tao, “Approximation in Control of Thermoelastic Systems,” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization,” Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 1163-1189, 1992.
• S.-W. Chen and J.S. Gibson, “A New Unwindowed Lattice Filter for RLS Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 2158-2165, 1992.
• Jiang, S.-B. and Gibson, J.S., “An Unwindowed Multichannel Lattice Filter with Orthogonal Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, December, 1995.

University of Texas, Austin, 1975