Afef Fekih, Ph.D.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

 

 

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

§           A. Fekih, "Improved LQR Based Control Approach for High Performance Induction Motor Drives," Journal of Control Science and Engineering, vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 21-30, ACTA Press/IASTED, January 2009.

§           A. Fekih, P. Pilla, "A New Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for Aircraft Systems Under Adverse Flying Conditions," Journal of Automation & Systems Engineering, vol.3, Issue 1, 2009.

§           A. Fekih, "A Robust Approach to Fault Tolerant Flight Control Design," Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Control Systems, 3rd. ed, pp. 114-119, June 2009.

§           A. 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.

§           A. Fekih, "Integrated Fault Tolerant Flight Control Design with Application to an F-16 Aircraft," Under review Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2009.

§           A. 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, September 2008.

§           A Fekih, "A New Sliding-Mode Based Control Design for Induction Motors Propelling Electric Vehicle Drives," under review, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2008.

§           A. 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.

§           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.

§           A. 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

§      A. Fekih, "A Robust Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for Aircraft Systems," accepted for publication, IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8-10, 2009.

§      A. Fekih, "A New Sliding-Mode Based Control Design for Induction Motors Propelling Electric Vehicle Drives," Proc. of 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV2008, pp. 1066-1071, Hanoi, Vietnam, December, 2008.

§      A. Fekih, P. Pilla, "A Passive Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for the uncertain MIMO Aircraft Model F-18," Proc. of 38th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, SSST 2007, Mercer, pp. 320-325, March 4-6, 2007.

§      A. Fekih, Hao Xu, F.N. Chowdhury, "Two Neural-Net Learning Methods for Model Based Fault Detection," Proc. of 6th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes SAFEPROCESS 06, pp.85-90, Beijing, China, August 30-September 1, 2006.

§      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.

§      A. Fekih, "An Alternative Strategy for Field Oriented Control," Proc. of the 2006 American Control Conference ACC 06, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 14-16, 2006.

§      A. Fekih, "Future trends in Control Engineering Education," Proc. of the 2006 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Southern University and A & M College, March 15-17, 2006.

§      A. Fekih and F.N. Chowdhury, "Subsystem Modeling Using Neural Networks for Fast Fault Detection in B747 Aircraft," Proc. of 12th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp.482-486, Tunisia, December 11-14, 2005.

§      A. Fekih and F.N. Chowdhury, "A Fault Tolerant Control Design for Induction Motors," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, vol. 2, pp.1320-1325, Hawaii, October 10-12, 2005.

§      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.

§      A. Fekih and 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.

§      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.

§      A. Fekih, "On Discrete Optimal Control of Induction Motor Drives," Proc. of Journées Scientifiques JS 2001, pp. 150-154, Tunisia, 23-24 May 2001.

§      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.

§      A. Fekih and 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.

§      A. Fekih and E. BenHadj Braiek, "Interpolated Optimal Control of an Asynchronous Variable Speed Driver," Proc. of International Conference 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.

§      A. Fekih and E. BenHadj Braiek, "Improved Optimal Control of an Asynchronous Speed Driver," Proc. of 2nd IEEE/IMACS International Multiconference on Computational Engineering in System Applications CESA'98, vol. 1, pp. 393-396, Tunisia, 1-4 April 1998.