SYBORGS Lab - University of Florida

SYBORGS Lab Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

  1. Soumyajit Sen Gupta and Amor A. Menezes. Space LIFE BOOST: Space long-term integrated fabrication enhancement with biological operations: an optimization software tool, 2024.
  2. Damon E. Ghetmiri, Alessia J. Venturi, Mitchell J. Cohen, and Amor A. Menezes. Quick model-based viscoelastic clot strength predictions from blood protein concentrations for cybermedical coagulation control, Nature Communications, 15:314, January 5, 2024. PDF
  3. Damon E. Ghetmiri and Amor A. Menezes. Nonlinear dynamic modeling and model predictive control of thrombin generation to treat trauma-induced coagulopathy, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 33(9):5128-5144, June 2023. PDF
  4. Andras Gyorgy, Amor Menezes, and Murat Arcak. A blueprint for a synthetic genetic feedback optimizer, Nature Communications, 14:2554, May 3, 2023. PDF
  5. Damon E. Ghetmiri and Amor A. Menezes. Control of positive systems with an unknown state-dependent power law input delay and input saturation, Automatica, 151:110853, May 2023. PDF
  6. Aaron J. Berliner, Isaac Lipsky, Davian Ho, Jacob M. Hilzinger, Gretchen Vengerova, Georgios Makrygiorgos, Matthew J. McNulty, Kevin Yates, Nils J. H. Averesch, Charles S. Cockell, Tyler Wallentine, Lance C. Seefeldt, Craig S. Criddle, Somen Nandi, Karen A. McDonald, Amor A. Menezes, Ali Mesbah, and Adam P. Arkin.  Space bioprocess engineering on the horizon, Communications Engineering, 1:13, June 21, 2022. PDF
  7. Damon E. Ghetmiri, Mitchell J. Cohen, and Amor A. Menezes. Personalized modulation of coagulation factors using a thrombin dynamics model to treat trauma-induced coagulopathy, npj Systems Biology and Applications, 7:44, December 7, 2021. PDF
  8. Aaron J. Berliner, Jacob M. Hilzinger, Anthony J. Abel, Matthew J. McNulty, George Makrygiorgos, Nils J. H. Averesch, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, Alexander Benvenuti, Daniel F. Caddell, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Anna Doloman, Skyler Friedline, Davian Ho, Wenyu Gu, Avery Hill, Paul Kusuma, Isaac Lipsky, Mia Mirkovic, Jorge Luis Meraz, Vincent Pane, Kyle B. Sander, Fengzhe Shi, Jeffrey M. Skerker, Alexander Styer, Kyle Valgardson, Kelly Wetmore, Sung-Geun Woo, Yongao Xiong, Kevin Yates, Cindy Zhang, Shuyang Zhen, Bruce Bugbee, Douglas S. Clark, Devin Coleman-Derr, Ali Mesbah, Somen Nandi, Robert M. Waymouth, Peidong Yang, Craig S. Criddle, Karen A. McDonald, Lance C. Seefeldt, Amor A. Menezes, and Adam P. Arkin. Towards a biomanufactory on Mars. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 8:711550, July 2021.
  9. Amor A. Menezes, Dhaval D. Shah, and Ilya V. Kolmanovsky. An evaluation of stochastic model-dependent and model-independent glider flight management. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 26(3):1040-1056, May 2018.
  10. Amor A. Menezes, Ryan F. Vilardi, Adam P. Arkin, and Mitchell J. Cohen. Targeted clinical control of trauma patient coagulation through a thrombin dynamics model. Science Translational Medicine, 9(371):eaaf5045, January 4, 2017. PDF
  11. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Efficient and resilient micro air vehicle flapping wing gait evolution for hover and trajectory control. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 54:1-16, September 2016. PDF
  12. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Efficient search and responsiveness trade-offs in a Markov chain model of evolution in dynamic environments. Mathematical Biosciences, 276:44-58, June 2016. PDF
  13. Amor A. Menezes, Michael G. Montague, John Cumbers, John A. Hogan, and Adam P. Arkin. Grand challenges in space synthetic biology. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 12(113):20150803, December 6, 2015. PDF Headline review article in synthetic biology.
  14. Amor A. Menezes, John Cumbers, John A. Hogan, and Adam P. Arkin. Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 12(102):20140715, January 6, 2015. PDF Cover article.
  15. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Optimal search efficiency of Barker's algorithm with an exponential fitness function. Optimization Letters, 8(2):691-703, February 2014. PDF
  16. Chris Vermillion, Amor Menezes, and Ilya Kolmanovsky. Stable hierarchical model predictive control using an inner loop reference model and λ-contractive terminal constraint sets. Automatica, 50(1):92-99, January 2014.
  17. Yongsoon Eun, Eric M. Gross, Pierre T. Kabamba, Semyon M. Meerkov, Amor A. Menezes, and Hamid R. Ossareh. Cyclic control: Problem formulation and stability analysis. ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 135(5):051012-1-051012-9, September 2013.
  18. Yongsoon Eun, Eric M. Gross, Pierre T. Kabamba, Semyon M. Meerkov, Amor A. Menezes, and Hamid R. Ossareh. Cyclic control: Reference tracking and disturbance rejection. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 21(3):753-764, May 2013.
  19. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Optimal seeding of self-reproducing systems. Artificial Life, 18(1):27-51, 2012. PDF

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. Damon E. Ghetmiri, Miguel E. Perez Blanco, Mitchell J. Cohen, and Amor A. Menezes. Control-theoretic modeling and prediction of blood clot viscoelasticity in trauma patients. In Proceedings of the 2021 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference, IFAC-PapersOnline, 54(20):232-237, October 24-27, 2021.
  2. George Makrygiorgos, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, Amor A. Menezes, and Ali Mesbah. Fast probabilistic uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of a Mars life support system model. In Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress, IFAC-PapersOnline, 53(2):7268-7273, July 12-17, 2020. PDF
  3. Andras Gyorgy, Amor Menezes, Murat Arcak. A genetic optimizer module for synthetic biology. In Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress, July 12-17, 2020. PDF
  4. Saige R. Drecksler, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, Alexander J. Benvenuti, and Amor A. Menezes. Effects of space biomanufacturing on fuel production alternatives for exploration missions. In Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems, number ICES-2020-499, July 12-16, 2020. PDF
  5. Alexander J. Benvenuti, Saige R. Drecksler, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, and Amor A. Menezes. Design of anaerobic digestion systems for closed loop space biomanufacturing. In Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems, number ICES-2020-498, July 12-16, 2020. PDF
  6. Amor A. Menezes and Ilya V. Kolmanovsky. Energy and power management in a series hybrid electric vehicle using selective evolutionary generation. In Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 3310-3315, December 15-17, 2014. PDF
  7. Dhaval D. Shah, Amor A. Menezes, and Ilya V. Kolmanovsky. Glider flight environment modeling for optimal control. In Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, pages 926-931, June 27-29, 2012. PDF
  8. Yongsoon Eun, Eric Gross, Pierre Kabamba, Semyon Meerkov, Amor Menezes, and Hamid Ossareh. Cyclic control: The case of static output feedback. In Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, pages 9181-9187, August 28-September 2, 2011. doi:10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.00784.
  9. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Efficient and responsive stochastic optimization. In Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, pages 4735-4740, August 28-September 2, 2011. doi:10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02531. PDF
  10. Chris Vermillion, Amor Menezes, and Ilya Kolmanovsky. Stable hierarchical model predictive control using an inner loop reference model. In Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, pages 9278-9283, August 28-September 2, 2011. doi:10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02733. PDF
  11. Ilya V. Kolmanovsky and Amor A. Menezes. A stochastic drift counteraction optimal control approach to glider flight management. In Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference, pages 1009-1014, June 29-July 1, 2011. PDF
  12. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Selective evolutionary generation: A model for optimally efficient search in biology. In Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference, pages 4117-4122, June 29-July 1, 2011. PDF
  13. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Rational behavior design using multi-selective generation. In Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 3938-3943, December 15-17, 2010. PDF
  14. ShiNung Ching, Yongsoon Eun, Eric Gross, Eric Hamby, Pierre Kabamba, Semyon Meerkov, and Amor Menezes. Modeling and control of cyclic systems in xerography. In Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, pages 4283-4288, June 30-July 2, 2010. PDF
  15. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Resilient self-reproducing systems. In Proceedings of the 2008 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, number DSCC2008-2284, October 20-22, 2008. PDF
  16. Amor A. Menezes and Pierre T. Kabamba. Optimal seeding of a class of self-reproducing systems. In Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, number AIAA-2008-7272, August 18-21, 2008. PDF
  17. Amor Menezes and Pierre Kabamba. An optimal seed-identification algorithm for self-reproducing systems. In Proceedings of the 58th International Astronautical Congress, number IAC-07-D3.2.02, September 24-28, 2007. PDF 
  18. Amor Menezes and Pierre Kabamba. A combined seed-identification and generation analysis for self-reproducing systems. In Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, pages 2582-2587, July 11-13, 2007. PDF
  19. Amor Menezes and Pierre Kabamba. Information requirements for self-reproducing systems in lunar robotic colonies. In Proceedings of the 57th International Astronautical Congress, number IAC-06-A5.P.04, October 2-6, 2006. PDF
  20. Amor Menezes, Rowena Luk, Paul T. Y. Lam, and Ziad Bhunnoo. Applying Martian rover technology to solve terrestrial problems --- the development of an Autonomous Cold-Trailing Omnirange Robot (ACTOR). In Proceedings of the 56th International Astronautical Congress, number IAC-05-E2.3.03, October 17-21, 2005. PDF