Alexander M. Meystel (February 25, 1935 – November 28, 2010) was an electrical engineer, professor, and researcher specializing in intelligent control systems, robotics, and machine intelligence.
Early life and education Meystel was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) on February 25, 1935. During World War II, he was evacuated the Soviet Union and later grew up in Odessa. In 1965, He received his PhD from the Experimental Scientific Research Institute for Metal-cutting Machine Tools (ENIMS) in Moscow, focusing on transient processes in induction motors.
Career Meystel was a Senior Scientist at ENIMS. After emigrating to the United States in 1978, he worked for companies including Hyper-Loop and Gould before joining the University of Florida as a professor in 1980. In 1984, he joined Drexel University's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where he remained until retiring in 2005.Meystel, A. M., “Autonomous Systems Research at Drexel University,” Drexel Technical Reports, 1990.
Meystel spent 17 years designing and creating machines with numerical control.Meystel, A. M., “Development of Control Systems for Industrial Automation,” Gould Corporation, 1979.
Meystel's work focused on multiresolutional and hierarchical control systems, intelligent control, and semiotics applied to machine intelligence and text processing.Meystel, A. M., “Multiresolutional Systems: Fundamentals and Applications,” Springer, 1992. He contributed to autonomous robotics research and the Meaning-Oriented Analysis of Texts (MOATS) system.Meystel, A. M., “Intelligent Control Systems,” Wiley, 1996.
His 1993 work on “Robot Learning to Walk: An Architectural Problem for Intelligent Controllers” has been cited by 35 patents.Guinea, D., Garcia-Alegre, M. C., Kalata, P., Lacaze, A., Meystel, A., *Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control*, 1993.
Meystel served as chair and organizer of multiple IEEE conferences and special sessions focused on intelligent control and robotics.IEEE Intelligent Control Newsletter, Special Edition, 1992. He collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Intelligent Systems Division.Meystel, A. M., “Research Cooperation with NIST,” NIST Reports, 1995.
Selected IEEE publications Albus, J. S., Lacaze, A., Meystel, A., "Autonomous Learning via Nested Clustering," in 'Proceedings of the 1995 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control ', 1995. Meystel, A., "Multiscale Models and Controllers," in 'Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control Systems Design ', 1994. Meystel, A., Filipovic, P., "Hierarchical Wavelet Controller," in '1993 American Control Conference ', 1993. Albus, J. S., Meystel, A., Uzzaman, S., "Nested Motion Planning for an Autonomous Robot," in 'Proceedings of the First IEEE Regional Conference on Aerospace Control Systems ', 1993. Meystel, A., Nisenzon, Y., Nawathe, R., "Fuzzy Variable Structure Controller for Chattering Reduction," in 'Proceedings of the First IEEE Regional Conference on Aerospace Control Systems ', 1993. Filipovic, P., Meystel, A., "Hierarchical Feedback Control System," in 'Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control ', 1993. Meystel, A., Nisenzon, Y., Nawathe, R., "Merger of Rule Based and Variable Structure Controller," in 'Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control and Applications ', 1993. Maximov, Y., Meystel, A., "Optimum Architectures for Multiresolutional Control," in 'Proceedings of the First IEEE Regional Conference on Aerospace Control Systems ', 1993.
Media coverage and recognition Meystel's research was covered in several independent newspaper articles in the 1980s, including:
"Researcher Gives Robot An Intuition Trait For Thought," 'The Evening Independent ', September 27, 1984. "University Of Florida Professor Works To Give Robots," 'Ocala Star-Banner ', April 10, 1983. "Future Robots To Make Choices," 'Gainesville Sun ', April 12, 1983. "Professor Teaches Robots Intuition," 'Lakeland Ledger ', September 25, 1984.
References
External links Google Patents: Alexander Meystel IEEE Xplore Author Search: Alexander Meystel