ACCESS Laboratory Members | Ph.D. Students
ACCESS Laboratory Members | Ph.D. Students
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Negasa Cherena Yahi, PhD.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, NC, 27411
Research Interests
Research Interests
Adaptive Control
Motion and Path Planning
Flight Control and Urban Air Mobility Traffic Management
About
About
Negasa Cherena Yahi received his PhD from North Carolina A&T State University in 2025, Master of Science in Control and Instrumentation Engineering in 2019 and Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering degree in 2016 from Jimma University, Ethiopia, in 2016. He is a member of the Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems (ACCESS) Lab.
Education
Education
PhD. in Electrial Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 2025
M.Sc. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Jimma University, Ethiopia, 2019.
B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jimma University, Ethiopia, 2016.
Awards
Awards
Best Paper Awards, 24th IEEE Integrated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2024.
Publications
Publications
N. Yahi, S. G. Gudeta and A. Karimoddini, “On-the-fly coordination of maneuvers for separation assurance of UAM aircraft in congested airspace,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 18714-18733, Nov. 2024.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, “Receding Horizon Based Collision Avoidance for UAM Aircraft at Intersections,” Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation, Vol. 3, No. 6, p. 100205, 2024.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, A. Homiafar and A. Karimoddini, “Integrated Agent-Based Simulation Framework for Urban Air Mobility,” Journal of Computational Science, 2025 (Under review).
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, ``Trajectory Prediction for Aircraft in Loss-of-Control Using Physics Informed Transformer,'' IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Under review).
Solomon G. Gudeta, A. Karimoddini, and N. Yahi, "Consensus-based distributed collective motion of swarm of quadcopters," IEEE Internet of Things Journal Vol. 11, no.3 pp. 5184-5199, 2023
N. Cherena, A. Feyo, and A. R. Thelkar, “Variable Structure Adaptive Control of LLC Resonant Converter,” Journal of Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 7–28, 2021.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, “Risk Assessment of Loss of Control In-Flight Trajectories for Urban Air Mobility Safety,” in 24th IEEE Integrated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2024. pp. 1-9 (Best Paper Award).
N. Yahi, J. Matute, A. Homiafar and A. Karimoddini, “Rule-Based Behavior Planning to Resolve Separation Loss in UAM Off-nominal Situations,” in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, 2025.
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