Operationalizing autonomy: A transition from the innovation space to real-world operations

A Homaifar, A Karimoddini, BA Erol… - IEEE Systems, Man …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry and government agencies envision the deployment of autonomous systems
throughout society, especially autonomous vehicles that operate within civilian and military …

An area-decomposition based approach for cooperative tasking and coordination of uavs in a search and coverage mission

K Vinh, S Gebreyohannes… - 2019 IEEE aerospace …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a low-computation area-decomposition based approach for tasking
and planning for a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) involved in a search mission …

Robust fast finite-time sliding mode control for industrial robot manipulators

SJ Gambhire, KS Sri Kanth, GM Malvatkar… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
In this work, a robust fast finite-time sliding mode control (RFFTSMC) approach is developed
for industrial robot manipulator (IRM) system involved for tasks of interactive manipulation …

Reactive symbolic planning and control in dynamic adversarial environments

L Shamgah, TG Tadewos, AAR Newaz… - … on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satisfying both safety and reachability requirements in dynamic adversarial environments is
very challenging, particularly when little or no information about the dynamics and intentions …

Path planning and control of autonomous vehicles in dynamic reach-avoid scenarios

L Shamgah, TG Tadewos… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the dynamic adversarial reach-avoid problem in which the attacker
aims at visiting a fixed target while avoiding the other vehicle (defender), which is trying to …

A switched dynamic model for pointing tasks with a computer mouse

S Aranovskiy, R Ushirobira, D Efimov… - Asian Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we study one of the most fundamental tasks in human‐computer interaction,
the pointing task. It can be described simply as reaching a target with a cursor starting from …

A symbolic approach for multi-target dynamic reach-avoid problem

L Shamgah, TG Tadewos… - 2018 IEEE 14th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a symbolic technique for the control and path planning of autonomous
vehicles in adversarial environments. We consider the objective of the autonomous vehicle …

Cooperative tasking for deterministic specification automata

M Karimadini, H Lin, A Karimoddini - Asian Journal of Control, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposes necessary and sufficient conditions for task decomposability with
respect to an arbitrary finite number of agents. It is furthermore shown that fulfilling the …

Modular cooperative tasking for multi-agent systems

M Karimadini, A Karimoddini… - 2018 IEEE 14th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a modular framework for cooperative tasking for multi-agent systems.
The paper focuses on logical behaviors of multi-agent systems that can be represented by …

A symbolic motion planning approach for the reach-avoid problem

L Shamgah, A Karimoddini… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the motion planning problem for two autonomous robots (the defender
and the attacker) with competitive objectives, which are involved in a reach-avoid scenario …