Afef Fekih, Ph.D.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

 

 

Research Areas:

 

§  Fault Tolerant Control

Design smart and robust fault tolerant controls for systems subject to faults in the actuators, sensors and components.

 

§  Nonlinear and Intelligent Controls

Develop intelligent control systems for modern high performance complex systems in aerospace, robotics, unmanned vehicles, automotive systems for which the increased complexity and stringent performance requirements require more rigorous speed of response and precision of motion.

 

§  Robust Control

Design control approaches to stabilize nonlinear systems subject to constraints, uncertainties.

 

§  Applications to aircraft Systems

§  Applications to Autonomous Vehicles

§  Applications to power systems

 

Selected Recent 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, 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, 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, "A Robust Fault Tolerant Control Strategy for Aircraft Systems," IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, pp. 1643-1648, 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.