Control and Automation

The aim is to leverage on the current state-of-the-art autonomy level to build next-generation smart systems; which execute the given tasks accurately, interact with their environment, collaborate with humans, plan future actions, and adapt new skills through learning processes. This includes research in control theory, modelling, operations management, identification and simulation of electro-mechanical systems, motion control systems, computer-based real-time control systems, adaptive and intelligent semi-autonomous and autonomous systems.

Featured Publications

  1. Formation Control of Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. A. Tahir, University of Turku, Finland, September 2023, ISBN: 978-951-29-9411-3. (Download) (Researchgate)
  2. Energy-efficient Post-failure Reconfiguration of Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. A. Tahir, MH. Haghbayan, J. Böling, and J. Plosila, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 95667-95680, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3181244. (Download) (Researchgate)
  3. Development of a Fault-Tolerant Control System for a Swarm of Drones. A. Tahir, J. Böling, MH. Haghbayan and J. Plosila, 62nd International Symposium ELMAR-2020, IEEE, pp. 79–82, Zadar, Croatia, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ELMAR49956.2020.9219027. (Download) (Researchgate)
  4. Navigation System For Landing A Swarm Of Autonomous Drones On A Movable Surface. A. Tahir, J. Böling, MH. Haghbayan and J. Plosila, Communications of the ECMS, Proceedings of the 34th International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Volume 34, Issue 1, pp. 168–174, 2020, United Kingdom, doi: 10.7148/2020-0168. (Download) (Researchgate)
  5. Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Methods for Distributed Control of a Hierarchical Formation of UAVs. A. Tahir, J. Böling, MH. Haghbayan and J. Plosila, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 95667-95680, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2988773. (Download) (Researchgate)
  6. Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — A Survey. A. Tahir, J. Böling, MH. Haghbayan, H. Toivonen and J. Plosila, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, vol. 16 (100106), 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.jii.2019.100106. (Download) (Researchgate)

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