Abraham Goldsmith

Abraham Goldsmith
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  • Biography

    Bram spent the first five years of his career in the hard disk drive industry. In graduate school he focused on computer architecture and developed a system for reconstructing 3D ultrasound images from 2D image sequences. Since joining MERL, Bram has worked in areas ranging from wireless sensor networks, optical metrology, NC machines, and control. Recently, he has focused primarily on the computational aspects of advanced control algorithms for embedded control systems and design automation for embedded systems. In addition to research, he likes to keep his EE skills sharp by designing and building instrumentation for his and others' experiments, and he can often be found in the machine shop running the CNC mill or the lathe.

  • Awards

    •  AWARD    Best paper award at PHMAP 2023
      Date: September 14, 2023
      Awarded to: Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith
      MERL Contacts: Abraham Goldsmith; Dehong Liu
      Research Areas: Electric Systems, Signal Processing
      Brief
      • MERL researchers Dehong Liu, Anantaram Varatharajan, and Abraham Goldsmith were awarded one of three best paper awards at Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2023 (PHMAP23) held in Tokyo from September 11th to 14th, 2023, for their co-authored paper titled 'Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors.'

        PHMAP is a biennial international conference specialized in prognostics and health management. PHMAP23 attracted more than 300 attendees from worldwide and published more than 160 regular papers from academia and industry including aerospace, production, civil engineering, electronics, and so on.
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  • MERL Publications

    •  Wu, J., Goldsmith, A., Zhou, L., Liu, D., Wang, B., Wang, Y., "A Novel High-Frequency Injection Method Towards Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines over Full Speed Range", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-061 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Wu2025may2,
      • author = {Wu, Jingjie and Goldsmith, Abraham and Zhou, Lei and Liu, Dehong and Wang, Bingnan and Wang, Yebin},
      • title = {{A Novel High-Frequency Injection Method Towards Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines over Full Speed Range}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-061}
      • }
    •  Wu, J., Goldsmith, A., Liu, D., Wang, B., Zhou, L., Wang, Y., "A Unified Observer for Smooth Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines at Full Speed Range", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-060 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Wu2025may,
      • author = {Wu, Jingjie and Goldsmith, Abraham and Liu, Dehong and Wang, Bingnan and Zhou, Lei and Wang, Yebin},
      • title = {{A Unified Observer for Smooth Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines at Full Speed Range}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-060}
      • }
    •  Liu, D., Anantaram, V., Goldsmith, A., "Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors", Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, DOI: 10.36001/​phmap.2023.v4i1.3710, September 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-115 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Liu2023sep,
      • author = {Liu, Dehong and Anantaram, Varatharajan and Goldsmith, Abraham},
      • title = {{Extracting Broken-Rotor-Bar Fault Signature of Varying-Speed Induction Motors}},
      • booktitle = {Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = sep,
      • doi = {10.36001/phmap.2023.v4i1.3710},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-115}
      • }
    •  Nikovski, D., Yerazunis, W.S., Goldsmith, A., "Model-Based Learning Controller Design for a Furuta Pendulum", International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), DOI: 10.1109/​CoDIT58514.2023.10284465, July 2023, pp. 764-767.
      BibTeX TR2023-080 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Nikovski2023jul,
      • author = {Nikovski, Daniel and Yerazunis, William S. and Goldsmith, Abraham},
      • title = {{Model-Based Learning Controller Design for a Furuta Pendulum}},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {764--767},
      • month = jul,
      • doi = {10.1109/CoDIT58514.2023.10284465},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-080}
      • }
    •  Anantaram, V., Goldsmith, A., Wang, Y., "Flying Start of Sensorless Synchronous Machines with Reactive Power Injection", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), DOI: 10.1109/​IEMDC55163.2023.10238966, May 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-037 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Anantaram2023may,
      • author = {Anantaram, Varatharajan and Goldsmith, Abraham and Wang, Yebin},
      • title = {{Flying Start of Sensorless Synchronous Machines with Reactive Power Injection}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = may,
      • doi = {10.1109/IEMDC55163.2023.10238966},
      • isbn = {979-8-3503-9899-1},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-037}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Systems and Methods for Reactive Power Injection Based Flying Start of Synchronous Machines"
      Inventors: Varatharajan, Anantaram; Wang, Yebin; Goldsmith, Abraham M.
      Patent No.: 12,249,934
      Issue Date: Mar 11, 2025
    • Title: "System and Method for Detecting and Correcting Laser-Cutting Distortion"
      Inventors: Vetterling, William; Thornton, Jay E.; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Goldsmith, Abraham M.
      Patent No.: 12,059,751
      Issue Date: Aug 13, 2024
    • Title: "Blockchain-Based Accountable Distributed Computing System"
      Inventors: Chiu, Tsz-Chun Michael; Kalabic, Uros; Goldsmith, Abraham M.
      Patent No.: 11,985,143
      Issue Date: May 14, 2024
    • Title: "Constraint Adaptor for Reinforcement Learning Control"
      Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Li, Zhaojian; Goldsmith, Abraham M.
      Patent No.: 11,676,064
      Issue Date: Jun 13, 2023
    • Title: "RECEDING HORIZON REFERENCE GOVERNOR"
      Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
      Patent No.: 10,860,002
      Issue Date: Dec 8, 2020
    • Title: "System and Method for Controlling Redundant Actuators with Different Dynamics"
      Inventors: Kalabic, Uros; Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano
      Patent No.: 10,324,446
      Issue Date: Jun 18, 2019
    • Title: "Operation Aware Control of Processing Machine with Redundant Actuators"
      Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano; Kalabic, Uros
      Patent No.: 10,216,168
      Issue Date: Feb 26, 2019
    • Title: "System and Method for Explicit Model Predictive Control"
      Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Di Cairano, Stefano
      Patent No.: 9,766,601
      Issue Date: Sep 19, 2017
    • Title: "Control of Processing Machines with Redundant Actuators"
      Inventors: Di Cairano, Stefano; Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Bortoff, Scott A.
      Patent No.: 9,744,620
      Issue Date: Aug 29, 2017
    • Title: "System and Method for Calibrating Laser Processing Machines"
      Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Bortoff, Scott A.; Shilpiekandula, Vijay; Sullivan, Alan; Yerazunis, William S.; Barnwell, John C.
      Patent No.: 9,718,146
      Issue Date: Aug 1, 2017
    • Title: "System and Method for Calibrating Laser Cutting Machines"
      Inventors: Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Yerazunis, William S.
      Patent No.: 8,938,317
      Issue Date: Jan 20, 2015
    • Title: "Laser Cutting Machine"
      Inventors: Yerazunis, William S.; Barnwell, III, John C.; Bortoff, Scott A.; Shilpiekandula, Vijay; Goldsmith, Abraham M.
      Patent No.: 8,921,734
      Issue Date: Dec 30, 2014
    • Title: "Active Badge Localization Using Passive Sensors"
      Inventors: Ivanov, Yuri A.; Goldsmith, Abraham M.; Wren, Christopher R.
      Patent No.: 8,284,026
      Issue Date: Oct 9, 2012
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