Publications

Preprints:

• Attitude Trajectory Optimization and Momentum Conservation with Control Moment Gyroscopes, with T. L. Dearing, J. Hauser, C. Petersen, and M. Nicotra, preprint.
• Geometric Characterization of the H-property for Step-graphons, with M.-A. Belabbas, preprint.

Journal Publications: 

• A Sufficient Condition for the Super-linearization of Polynomial Systems, with M.-A. Belabbas, Systems & Control Letters, appeared online.  
• Controllability Issues of Linear Ensemble Systems over Multi-dimensional Parameterization Spaces, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 61(4): 2425-2447, 2023.
• A Stochastic Binary Vertex-Triggering Resetting Algorithm for Global Synchronization of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators, with M. U. Javed and J. I. Poveda, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, appeared online.
• On Structural Rank and Resilience of Sparsity Patterns, with M.-A. Belabbas and D. Zelazo, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, appeared online.
• Efficient Trajectory Optimization for Constrained Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers, with T. Dearing, J. Hauser, M. Nicotra, and C. Petersen, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 45(4):638-650, 2022. 
• On the H-property for step-graphons and edge polytopes, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6:1766-1771, 2022.
• Gossip over Holonomic Graphs, with M.-A. Belabbas and J. Liu, Automatica, 136:110088, 2022.
• Structural Averaged Controllability of Linear Ensemble Systems, with B. Gharesifard, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6:518-523, 2022.
• Distinguished Sets of Semi-simple Lie Algebras, with B. Gharesifard, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 54:879–891, 2021. 
• On Integer Balancing of Directed Graphs, with M.-A. Belabbas, Systems & Control Letters, 154:104980, 2021.
• Sparse Linear Ensemble Systems and Structural Controllability, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 67(7):3337-3348, 2021.
• Reputation and Pricing Dynamics in Online Markets, with Q. Ma, J. Huang, T. Basar, and J. Liu, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 29(4):1745-1759, 2021. 
• Triangulated Laman Graphs, Local Stochastic Matrices, and Limits of Their Products, with M.-A. Belabbas, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 619:176-209, 2021.
• Scalable Resetting Algorithms for Synchronization of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators over Rooted Directed Graphs, with M. U. Javed and J. I. Poveda, Automatica, 132:109807, 2021.
• Excitation Conditions for Uniform Exponential Stability of the Cooperative Gradient Algorithm over Weakly Connected Digraphs, with M. U. Javed and J. I. Poveda, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6:67-72, 2021.  
• Controllability of Formation Systems on Special Orthogonal Groups over Directed Graphs, with M. Sinner and L. Pao, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 8(2):872-883, 2021.
• Optimal Spacecraft Guidance with Asynchronous Measurements and Noisy Impulsive Controls, with E. L. Jenson and D. J. Scheeres, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5(5):1813-1818, 2021.
• Stabilizing Formation Systems with Nonholonomic Agents, with T. Dearing and M. Nicotra, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5(2):403-408, April, 2021.
• Optimal Control of Sampled Linear Systems with Control-Linear Noise, with E. L. Jenson and D. J. Scheeres, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4(3):650-655, July, 2020.
• A Game-Theoretic Framework for Multi-Period-Multi-Company Demand Response Management in the Smart Grid, with K. Alshehri, J. Liu, and T. Basar, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 29(3):1019-1034, 2020. 
• Ensemble Observability of Bloch Equations with Unknown Population Density, Automatica, 119:109057, 2020.
• Controllability of Continuum Ensemble of Formation Systems over Directed Graphs, Automatica, 108:108497, 2019.
• Asymptotic Behavior Conjunctive Boolean Networks over Weakly Connected Digraphs, with Z. Gao and T. Basar, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 65(6):2536-2549, 2019.
• Structure Theory for Ensemble Controllability, Observability, and Duality, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 31(2):1-40, Jun. 2019.
• Controlling and Stabilizing Rigid Formations Using a few Agents, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 57(1):104-128, 2019.
• Sensor Placement for Optimal Estimation of Vector-valued Diffusion Processes, with M.-A. Belabbas, System & Control Letters, 121:24-30, Nov. 2018. 
• Controllability of Conjunctive Boolean Networks with Application to Gene Regulation, with Z. Gao and T. Basar, IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, 5(2):770-781, Jun. 2018.
• Stability Structure of Conjunctive Boolean Networks, with Z. Gao and T. Basar, Automatica, 89:8-20, Mar. 2018.
• Optimal Capacity Allocation for Sampled Networked Systems, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, Automatica, 85:100-112, Nov. 2017.
• Voltage Graphs and Cluster Consensus with Point Group Symmetries, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 55(6):3869-3889, 2017.
• Global Stabilization of Triangulated Formations, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 55(1):172-199, 2017.
• Exponential Convergence of the Discrete-Time Altafini Model, with J. Liu, T. Basar, and M.-A. Belabbas, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 62(12):6168-6182, Dec. 2017.
• Swarm Aggregation under Fading Attractions, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 62(10):5198-5204, Oct. 2017.
• Controllability of Formations over Directed Time-varying Graphs, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, 4(3):407-416, Sep. 2017.
• Distributed evaluation and convergence of self-appraisals in social networks, with J. Liu, M.-A. Belabbas, Z. Xu, and T. Basar, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 62(1):291-304, April 2017.
• Distributed Averaging with Linear Objective Maps, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, Automatica, 70:179-188, Aug. 2016.

Conferences:

• The H-property of Line Graphons, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, 2022 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC).
• Robust Spacecraft Guidance with Control-Dependent Noise: Analysis and Application, with E. L. Jenson and  D. J. Scheeres, AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. 
• Structural Averaged Controllability of Linear Ensemble Systems, with B. Gharesifard, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (joint submission to IEEE L-CSS), 2021.
• Excitation Conditions for Uniform Exponential Stability of the Cooperative Gradient Algorithm over Weakly Connected Digraphs, with M. U. Javed and J. I. Poveda, American Control Conference (joint submission to IEEE L-CSS), 2021.
• Optimal Control of Sampled Linear Systems with Control-Linear Noise, with E. L. Jenson and D. J. Scheeres, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (joint submission to IEEE L-CSS), 2020.
• Stabilizing Formation Systems with Nonholonomic Agents, with T. Dearing and M. Nicotra, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (joint submission to IEEE L-CSS), 2020.
• Fuel-Balanced Formation Flight Control of Underactuated Satellites, with T. Dearing, C. Petersen, and M. Nicotra, American Control Conference, 2020.  
• Global synchronization of clocks in directed rooted acyclic graphs: A hybrid systems approach, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 7352-7357), 2019.
• Optimal sensor design for secure cyber-physical systems, NecSys (pp. 387-390), 2019. 
• Joint actuator-sensor design for stochastic linear systems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 6668-6673), 2018.
• Distinguished vector fields over smooth manifolds with applications to ensemble control, with B. Gharesifard, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 1963-1968), 2017.
• Asymptotic behavior of a reduced conjunctive Boolean network, with Z. Gao and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 4404-4409), 2017.
• State-controlling sets for conjunctive Boolean networks, with Z. Gao and T. Basar, 20th IFAC World Congress (pp. 14290-14295), 2017.
• Optimal actuator placement for minimizing the worst-case control energy, with M.-A. Belabbas, 20th IFAC World Congress (pp. 9991-9996), 2017.
• Orbit-controlling sets for conjunctive Boolean networks, with Z. Gao and T. Basar, American Control Conference (pp. 4989-4994), 2017.
• Controlling a rigid formation from a triangle, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 57-62), 2016.
• Periodic behavior of a diffusion model over directed graphs, with Z. Gao, J. Liu, and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 37-42), 2016.
• Cluster consensus over strongly connected voltage graphs, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, 2016.
• Stability of the continuous-time Altafini model, with J. Liu and T. Basar, American Control Conference (pp. 1930-1935), 2016.
• A continuous-time distributed algorithm for solving linear equations, with J. Liu, T. Basar, and A. Nedic, American Control Conference (pp. 5551-5556), 2016.
• Controllability of formations over directed graphs, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 4764-4769), 2015.
• Formation control with triangulated Laman graphs, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 4115-4120), 2015.
• Consensus with linear objective maps, with M.-A. Belabbas and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 2847-2852), 2015.
• Distributed evaluation and convergence of self-appraisals in social networks, with J. Liu, Z. Xu, and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 2895-2900), 2015.
• Stability of discrete-time Altafini's model: a graphical approach, with J. Liu, T. Basar, and M.-A. Belabbas, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 2835-2840), 2015.
• A Stackelberg game for multi-period demand response management in the smart grid, with K. Alshehri, J. Liu, and T. Basar, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 5889-5894), 2015.
• Decentralized formation control with A quadratic Lyapunov function, American Control Conference (pp. 4362-4367), 2015.
• Centralized and decentralized formation control with controllable interaction laws, with R. W. Brockett, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 601-606), 2014.
• Gradient flows for organizing multi-agent system, American Control Conference (pp. 5109-5114), 2014.