Afef Fekih, Ph.D.
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
[J1] M. Morteza, A. Fekih, "Adaptive PID-Sliding Mode Fault Tolerant
Control Approach for Vehicle Suspension Systems Subject to Actuator
Faults," IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology, Vol. 63, Issue 3, pp.1041-1054, March 2014.
[J2] M. Morteza, A. Fekih, "A Stability
Guaranteed Robust Fault Tolerant Control Design for Vehicle Suspension Systems
Subject to Actuator Faults and Disturbances," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. PP, Issue:
99, pp. 1-10, 2014.
[J3] A. Fekih,
"Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Design for Effective and Reliable Aircraft
Systems," Journal of Control and
Decision, Taylor&Francis, vol. 4, no. 10, pp.
1-19, October 30, 2014.
[J4] A. Fekih, S. Seelem, "Effective Fault-Tolerant Control Paradigm for
Path Tracking in Autonomous Vehicles," accepted, Systems Science and Control Engineering Journal, Taylor&Francis, July 12,
2014.
[J5] A. Bouhana, A. Zidi, A. Fekih,
N. Anand, M. Abed, H. Chabchoub, "Ontology
based personalized itinerary search system using the CBR tool and a
Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach:Application in urban freight transport," under revision, Expert Systems
with Applications Journal, Elsevier,
March 2014.
[J6] M. Morteza, A. Fekih, "Adaptive PID-Sliding Mode Fault Tolerant
Control Approach for Vehicle Suspension Systems Subject to Actuator
Faults," in press IEEE Transactions
on Vehicular Technology, published online Sep. 20, 1013, Vol. PP, Issue 99,
2013.
[J7] Bouhana, A.
Fekih, M. Abed, H. Chabchoub, "An integrated Case-Based Reasoning and MCDM technique for personalized
itinerary search” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging
Technologies Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 31, pp.30-50, June 2013.
[J8] Fekih, A. AlShehri, A Feedback Linearization based Nonlinear Control
Approach for Variable Speed Wind Turbines”, Journal
of Technology Innovations in Renewable
Energy, Vol.2, no. 1, Vol. 2, pp 88-97, February 2013.
[J9] Fekih, D. Devariste, A Fault-Tolerant Steering Control Design for
Autonomous Vehicles”, under review Journal
of Control theory and Applications, Springer 2013.
[J10] Fekih, S. Seelem "A Novel Fault Tolerant Control Design for
Automatic Steering of Autonomous Ground Vehicles," revised version under review
Journal of Control Science and
Engineering, ACTA Press/IASTED, May 2013.
[J11] Fekih, S. Golconda,
J. Herpin, A. Lakhotia,
"Steering Controller of the CajunBot II,"
pp.195-207, Experience from the DARPA
Urban Challenge, Springer, 2012.
[J12] Fekih,
"Integrated Fault Tolerant Flight Control Design With Application to an
F-16 Aircraft," Journal of Control
Science and Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 159-167, ACTA Press/IASTED,
2011.
[J13] Fekih,
"Improved LQR Based Control Approach for High Performance Induction Motor
Drives," Journal of Control Science
and Engineering, vol.37, No. 9, pp. 21-30, ACTA Press/IASTED, 2009.
[J14] Fekih, "A
Robust Approach to Fault Tolerant Flight Control Design," International
Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing, Issue 2, pp. 11-15, pp.1-15, April 2009.
[J15] Fekih, P. Pilla, "A New Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for
Aircraft Systems Under Adverse Flying
Conditions," Journal of Automation & Systems Engineering,
Vol.3, Issue 2, pp. 2009.
[J16] Fekih, "A
Robust Approach to Fault Tolerant Flight Control Design," Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Control
Systems, 3rd. ed,
pp. 114-119, June 2009.
[J17] Fekih,
"Effective Fault Tolerant Control Design for a Class of Nonlinear Systems:
Application to a Class of Motor Control," IET Control Theory & Applications, vol.2, No.9, pp.762-772,
Sept. 2008.
[J18] Fekih, H. Xu, F.N. Chowdhury, "Neural
Networks Based System Identification Techniques for Model Based Fault Detection
of Nonlinear Systems," International
Journal of Computing, Information and Control, vol.3, No. 5, pp.1073-1085,
October, 2007.
[J19] J. Herpin, A. Fekih, S. Golconda, A. Lakhotia,
"Steering Control of the Autonomous Vehicle: CajunBot,"
AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing,
Information, and Communication (JACIC), vol.4, pp.1134-1142, December 2007.
[J20] Fekih, Hao Xu, F.N. Chowdhury,
"Two Neural-Net Learning Methods for Model Based Fault Detection," Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of
Technical Processes, pp.72-77, Elsevier
Science, 2007.
[J21] Fekih, F.N. Chowdhury, "A Nonlinear State Feedback Controller for
Induction Motors," Electric Power
Components and Systems Journal, Taylor & Francis Inc., vol. 33, No. 11,
pp.1211-1227, November 2005.
[J22] Fekih, F.N. Chowdhury, "A Nonlinear State Feedback Controller for
Induction Motors," Electric Machines
and Power Systems Journal, Taylor & Francis Inc., vol. 33, No. 11,
pp.1211-1227, November 2005.
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
[C1] Bouhana, A. Zidi, M. Abed, A. Fekih,"An
ontology-Based Personalized Retrieval model using Case Base Reasoning," Proc. of International Conference on
Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems. Poland, September 15-17, 2014.
[C2] A. Zidi, A. Bouhana, A. Fekih, M. Abed, "Personalization of Itineraries search using Ontology
and Rules to Avoid Congestion in Urban Areas," Proc. of the
19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC2014), pp.
4196-4200, Cape Town, South Africa, August 24-29, 2014.
[C3] A. Fekih, "Fault
Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control Design for Aerospace Systems: A
Bibliographical Review", Proc of the 2014 American Control Conference, pp.
1286-1291, Portland, OR, June 4-6, 2014 (invited).
[C4] S. Pourmohammad, R. Soosahabi, D.
Perkins, A. Fekih,
"Analytical QoS Model for 802.11-based Single
and Multihop Wireless Networks," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computing,
Networking and Communications, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2014.
[C5] S. Pourmohammad, A. Fekih, D. Perkins, "Optimal Feedback Control for
Router Management in TCP/IP Networks," Proc.
of Int. Conference on Systems and Control, pp. 1073-1079, October 29-31, Algier, Algeria, 2013.
[C6] A. Fekih, D. Deveriste, "A Fault-Tolerant Steering Control Design
for Automatic Path Tracking in Autonomous Vehicles," Proc. of the 2013 American Control Conference, pp. 5153-5158,
Washington DC, June 17-19, 2013.
[C7] A. AlShehri, A. Fekih, "Pitch Control Design for Optimum Energy
Capture in Variable-Speed Wind Turbines," IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices SSD,
pp. 1-6, March 18-21, 2013.
[C8] A. Alshehri, A. Fekih, “An Overview of the Current State of Wind Energy
Technology Development in the US,“ Proc. IEEE
Fifth Annual Green Technologies Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, pp.
120-126, April 4-5, 2013.
[C9] A. Bouhana, M. Abed, H. Chabchoub, A. Fekih, "
A Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach based on Fuzzy theory and Fuzzy
preference relations for Urban Distribution Centers’ location selection under
uncertain environments,“ Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Logistics and Transport,
pp. 556-561, May 29-31, 2013.
[C10]
A. Fekih, A. AlShehri,
"Feedback Linearization Control Scheme for Maximum Power Generation in
Wind Turbines," accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Control and Applications, 2013.
[C11]
A. Fekih, "Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control
Design for Safety Critical Systems: A Bibliographical Review", accepted
for publication at the IEEE International
Conference on Control and Applications, 2013
[C12]
A. AlShehri, A. Fekih,
"Pitch Control Design for Optimum Energy Capture in Variable-Speed Wind
Turbines," IEEE International
Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices SSD, pp. 1-6, March 18-21,
2013
[C13]
A. Fekih, S. Seelem "A
Fault Tolerant Control Design for Automatic Steering Control of Ground
Vehicles," Proc. of IEEE
Multi-Conference on Systems and Controls, pp.1491-1496, Dubrovnic,
Croatia, October 3-5, 2012.
[C14]
A. Fekih, J. Ben Hmida, "A Self Tuning Adaptive Approach
for Actuator Failure Compensation in Aircraft Systems", IEEE-ICIT 2010
International Conference on
Industrial Technology, Viña del Mar, Chile, pp. 10-14, March
14-17, 2010.
[C15]
A. Fekih, J. Ben Hmida, "A Self Tuning Adaptive Approach
for Actuator Failure Compensation in Aircraft Systems", IEEE-ICIT 2010
International Conference on
Industrial Technology, Viña del Mar, Chile, pp. 10-14, March
14-17, 2010.
[C16]
M. Polas,
A. Fekih, "A
Multi-Gain Sliding Mode Based Controller for the Pitch Angle Control of a Civil
Aircraft", IEEE South Eastern
Symposium on System Theory, pp. 96-101, Tyler, TX, March 7-9, 2010.
[C17]
A. Fekih, "A Robust Fault Tolerant Control Strategy
for Aircraft Systems," Proc. of the
IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Controls, pp. 1643-1648, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8-10, 2009.
[C18]
A. Fekih, "A New Sliding-Mode Based Control Design
for Induction Motors Propelling Electric Vehicle Drives," 10th
International Conference on Control,
Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV2008, pp. 1066-1071,
Hanoi, Vietnam, December 17-20, 2008.
[C19]
A. Fekih, P. Pilla, "A
Passive Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for the uncertain MIMO Aircraft Model
F-18," 39th Southeastern Symposium
on System Theory, SSST 2007, Macon, GA, pp. 320-325, March 4-6, 2007.
[C20]
A. Fekih, Hao Xu, F.N. Chowdhury, "Two
Neural-Net Learning Methods for Model Based Fault Detection," 6th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection,
Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes SAFEPROCESS06, pp.85-90,
Beijing, China, August 30-Sep1, 2006.
[C21]
A. Fekih, F.N. Chowdhury,
"A Robust Fault Tolerant Control Design for a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain
Systems," Proc. of
the 2006 American Control
Conference ACC 06, pp.5474-5480, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 14-16,
2006.
[C22]
A. Fekih, "An Alternative Strategy for Field Oriented
Control," Proc. of the 2006 American
Control Conference ACC 06, pp.2748-2753,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 2006.
[C23]
A. Fekih, "Future trends in Control Engineering
Education," Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual
Conference Southern University and A&M College, March 15-17, 2006.
[C24] A. Fekih, F.N. Chowdhury, J. Das, "Subsystem Modeling Using Neural Networks for Fast Fault Detection in B747 Aircraft," Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp.482-486, Tunisia, December 11-14, 2005.
[C25]
A. Fekih and F.N. Chowdhury,
"A Fault Tolerant Control Design for Induction Motors," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on
System Man and Cybernetics Conference, vol. 2, pp.1320-1325, Hawaii,
October 10-12, 2005.
[C26]
A. Fekih and F.N. Chowdhury,
"On Nonlinear Control of Induction Motors. Comparison of two
Approaches," Proc. of the 2004 American
Control Conference, pp.1135-1140, Boston, June 30-July 2, 2004.
[C27]
A. Fekih, E.
BenHadj Braiek,
"Design of a Multimodel approach for Nonlinear
Control of Induction Motor Drives," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, vol.
5, pp. 36-40, Tunisia, 6-9 October 2002.
[C28]
A. Fekih and E.BenHadj Braiek, "Design of a High Performance Nonlinear
Controller for Induction Motor Drives," Proc. of 2nd International Conference
JTEA’ 2002, vol 3, pp. 93-98, Tunisia, 21-23
March 2002.
[C29]
A. Fekih, "On Discrete Optimal Control of Induction
Motor Drives," Proc. of Journées Scientifiques JS 2001, pp. 150-154,
Tunisia, 23-24 May 2001.
[C30]
A. Fekih, E.
BenHadj Braiek, "Robust Speed Control for Induction Motor
Drives," Proc. of 9TH Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation MED'01, Croatia, 27-29
June 2001.
[C31]
A. Fekih, E.
BenHadj Braiek,
"Control of Induction Motors via Feedback Linearization. A Simulation
Study," Proc. of Tunisian German Conference on SMART Systems
and Design, pp.163-167,
Tunisia, 27-30 March 2001.
[C32]
A. Fekih, E. BenHadj Braiek, "Interpolated Optimal Control of an
Asynchronous Variable Speed Driver," Proc. of Int.Conf.on Artificial and
Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Engineering and
Industrial Applications, ACIDCA'2000, Vol. Eng.&Indus.Appli.,
pp.15-19, Tunisia, 22-24 March 2000.
[C33]
A. Fekih, E. BenHadj Braiek, "Improved Optimal Control of an Asynchronous
Speed Driver," Proc. of 2nd
IEEE/IMACS International Multi-conference on Computational Engineering in
System Applications CESA'98, vol. 1, pp. 393-396, Tunisia, 1-4 April 1998.