Dr. Jito Vanualailai

Title: Associate Professor of Mathematics

Room #: A109

Division: Mathematics

Email: vanualailai(at)usp.ac.fj

Phone: 323 2661

Fax: 323 1527

TEACHING

• MA211 - Advanced Calculus
• MA312 - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
• MA313 - Real and Complex Analysis
• MA416 - Mathematical Analysis F (Nonlinear Dynamical Systems)

RESEARCH INTERESTS (Click here for research profile)

Stability of Nonlinear Systems, Volterra Integrodifferential Equations, Robotics and Artificial Neural Networks

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. B. Sharma, J. Vanualailai and S. Singh (2012), Lyapunov-based Nonlinear Controllers for Obstacle Avoidance with a Planar n-Link Doubly Nonholonomic Manipulator, accepted for publication in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (a publication of Elsevier, ranked A by the Australian Research Council's ERA2010).
2. B. Sharma, J. Vanualailai, A. Prasad, (2011), Formation Control of a Swarm of Mobile Manipulators, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 41 (3): 909-940.   (ranked B by the Australian Research Council's ERA2010).
3. J. Vanualailai, B. Sharma and S. Nakagiri (2008), An Asymptotically Stable Collision-Avoidance System,  International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Volume 43, Issue 9, pp. 925-932 (a publication of Elsevier, ranked A by the Australian Research Council's ERA2010).
   
4. J. Vanualailai and S. Nakagiri (2005), Some Generalized Sufficient Convergence Criteria for Nonlinear Continuous Neural Networks, Neural Computation, Vol.7, No.8, pp1820-1835 (a publication of MIT Press, ranked A by the Australian Research Council's ERA2010).
5. J. Vanualailai and S. Nakagiri, (2003). Stability of a System of Volterra Integro-differential Equations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol.281, No.2, pp.602-619 (a publication of Elsevier, ranked A by the Australian Research Council's ERA2010).
6. J. Vanualailai, A. Deo, B. Sharma and S. Chandra (2003). Nonlinear Dynamics of the Observed HIV-Positive Population Size in Fiji, Pacific Health Dialogue: Journal of Community Health and Clinical Medicine for the Pacific, Vol.10, No.2, pp.45-52.
7. J. Vanualailai, J-H. Ha and S. Nakagiri, (1995). Collision Avoidance in a Two-Point System via Liapunov's Second Method, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol.39, pp.125-141. (a publication of Elsevier, ranked B by the Australian Research Council's ERA2010).

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