ACCESS Laboratory Members

Wendell Bates received his Bachelor of Computer and Electrical Engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2008, and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2011. He then joined the BMW Manufacturing as a Quality engineer. In 2016, he joined the North Carolina A&T State University to pursue his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include “Reliable Control Systems,” “Hybrid Control systems,” “Discrete Event Systems,” and “Robotics”. He is a member of Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems (ACCESS) Lab and Testing, Evaluation and Control of Heterogeneous Large-scale systems of Autonomous Vehicles (TECHLAV) Center. 

• M.Sc., Electrical engineering, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, 2011

• B.Sc., Computer and Electrical Engineering, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, 2008

• 2nd place, Aurdodrive Challenge 2019 

• Summer Internship, Air Force Research Lab, AFRL Information Directorate, Rome, NY, 2017

• Bates, Ira Wendell, Ali Karimoddini, and Mohammad Karimadini. "A Learning-Based Approach for Diagnosis and Diagnosability of Unknown Discrete Event Systems." IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2022). 

• Bates, Ira Wendell, Ali Karimoddini, and Mohammad Karimadini. "Learning a partially-known discrete event system." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 61806-61816. 

• M. Karimi, A. Karimoddini, A. White, W. Bates, “Event-Based Fault Diagnosis for an Unknown Plant,” Proc. 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).