Zdenko Kovacic



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Zdenko Kovacic (1958) received his Ph.D. in 1993, M.S.E.E. in 1987 and B.S.E.E. in 1981. at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is currently an assistant professor at The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,University of Zagreb. His areas of interest are intelligent, adaptive and optimal control systems, control of power converters, electrical drives and robots. During 1990-1991, he spent one year working as a visitor researcher in the Motion Control Laboratory of prof. dr. Krishnan Ramu at the Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Currently, he works on development and implementation of self-learning and adaptive fuzzy control algorithms applied to the electrical motor drives and robots. He has been an author and coauthor of numerous papers published in journals and presented at the national and international conferences.