Ahmed Khalifa

TL;DR: In this paper, a 2-DOF manipulator is attached to the bottom of a quadrotor to enable the end-effector to track a desired 6DOF trajectory with minimum possible actuators.

TL;DR: A consensus-based control law is described taking into account the nature of traveling in urban environment, that is the human driven leader travels with variable velocity, which allows for a low cost limited bandwidth communication module.

TL;DR: This paper shows that UAV models on the horizontal plane and in the vertical direction are expressed as a fourthand secondorder system, respectively and provides conditions for formation control gains such that all roots of the polynomials have negative real parts in order for the UAVs to asymptotically converge to the positions for a desired formation by using the generalized Routh stability criterion.

TL;DR: A longitudinal control framework for platooning in an urban environment to redistribute vehicles involved in car-sharing systems, where only the leader vehicle is human-driven, and considering actuator dynamics.

TL;DR: This is the first work presenting an observer-based platoon controller that combines the advantages of high traffic capacity and a minimum number of communication links and an observer is designed and integrated into the control law such that the velocity information of the predecessor can be estimated without the need to communicate with the preceding vehicle.