Our team was awarded by DOT to establish a $30M Regional University Transportation Center (UTC).
Disclaimer: This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All person copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be re-posted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
A. Karimoddini, G. Cai, B.M. Chen, H. Lin, T. H. Lee, “Hierarchical Control Design of a UAV Helicopter,” in Advances in Flight Control Systems, INTECH, Vienna, Austria, 2011.
M. Maher, A. Karimoddini, “Programming and configuration of ProfiBus DP with Step7 software,” Gheddis, 2005.
Tienake Phuapaiboon, Jose Matute, Daniel Tobias, Tesfamichael Getahun, Mahsa Tavasoli, Ali Karimoddini, "Development and Evaluation of a Connected and Automated Vehicle Testbed," Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, accepted.
S. Jones, A. Karimoddini, D. Kreis, and D. Flinchum, "Advancing Rural Transportation Through the USDOT University Transportation Center Program," in ITE Journal, 2025.
M. Tavasoli, A. Sarrafzadeh, A. Karimoddini, T. Phuapaiboon, M. Khaleghi, and D. Tobias, “GEM-CAN: A real-world dataset of CAN-bus attack scenarios on an autonomous vehicle for intrusion-detection research,” Data in Brief, 2026.
S. Shahnazinia, M. Tavasoli, A. Sarrafzadeh, and A. Karimoddini, “Healthcare digital twins: A methodological literature review on integrating IoT and AI for personalized medicine and predictive care,” Telematics and Informatics Reports, 2026.,
Zakaria, Mohammed, Tesfamichael Getahun, and Ali Karimoddini. "Traffic Sign Dataset for Connected and Automated Vehicle Operations in Rural Areas." Data in Brief (2025): 112280.
Gray II, William, Abduallah Al Redwan Newaz, Milad Khaleghi, Hieu T. Nguyen, Leila Hashemi Beni, Abolghasem Shahbazi, and Ali Karimoddini, "Multi-UAV Tasking and Coordination for Monitoring and Coverage of Agricultural Farmland," Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems 3, no. 1 (2025): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3749194
M. Tavasoli, A. Sarrafzadeh, M. Khaleghi, M. Zakaria, H. B. Pasandi and A. Karimoddini, "Data Communication Challenges of Connected and Automated Vehicles in Rural Areas," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 29220-29251, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3539598.
Jose Matute, Sarah Searcy, Ali Karimoddini, "The Aggie Auto Shuttles: Technical Insights from the First Public Road Demonstration", Transportation Engineering, vol. 20, pp. 100335, 2025, DOI 10.1016/j.treng.2025.100335.
T. Syum Gebre, E. Tsehaye Wasehun, F. Elikem Dorbu, G. Oluwasegun Agboola, A. Karimoddini and L. Hashemi-Beni, "Adaptive Input Sampling: A Novel Approach for Efficient Object Detection in High Resolution Traffic Monitoring Images," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 73003-73021, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3560880
Aliasghar Arab, Milad Khaleghi, Alireza Partovi, Alireza Abbaspour, Chaitanya Shinde, Yashar Mousavi, Vahid Azimi, and Ali Karimmoddini, "High-Resolution Safety Verification for Evasive Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles," in IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, vol. 6, pp. 276-287, 2025, doi: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3519951.
T. Getahun and A. Karimoddini, "An Integrated Vision-Based Perception and Control for Lane Keeping of Autonomous Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 9001-9015, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2024.3376516.
N. Yahi, S. G. Gudeta and A. Karimoddini, "On-the-Fly Coordination of Maneuvers for Separation Assurance of UAM Aircraft in Congested Airspace," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 18714-18733, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2024.3432920.
B. Lartey, W. Bedada, X. Yan, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini and E. Tunstel, "An Efficient Profit-Aware Scalable Vehicle Dispatch Framework for On-Demand Ridesharing," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 2, pp. 542-555, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TICPS.2024.3446957.
J. Matute, S. Diaz and A. Karimoddini, "Sliding Mode Control for Robust Path Tracking of Automated Vehicles in Rural Environments," in IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, vol. 5, pp. 1314-1325, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3456035.
Ali Karimoddini, Scott Smolka, M. Karimadini “Fault Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems under Uncertain Initial Conditions,” Expert Systems with Applications, Vol 255, Part B, 1 December 2024, 124549.
Emmanuel A. Marfo, Mubbashar A. Khan, Tau Wu, Tara L. Cavalline, and Ali Karimoddini. "Resource Assessment Tool for Effective Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-Assisted Bridge Inspections." Transportation Research Record (2024): 03611981241260701.
Jose Matute, Milad Khaleghi, and Ali Karimoddini. "Decentralized Most Permissive Observer Architecture for Brake Leakage Diagnosis in Automotive Systems." IEEE Access (2024), Vol 12, pp. 110457 – 110468.
Yahi, Negasa, Jose Matute, and Ali Karimoddini. "Receding horizon based collision avoidance for UAM aircraft at intersections." Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation 3, no. 6 (2024): 100205.
Md Khurram Monir Rabby, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, Steven Xiaochun Jiang, and Ali Karimoddini, 2024. Performance-Aware Trust Modeling within a Human–Multi-Robot Collaboration Setting. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 13(2), pp.1-23.
Solomon Gudeta and Ali Karimoddini, and Negasa Yahi. "Consensus Based Distributed Collective Motion of Swarm of Quadcopters." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2023), DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3305610.
Yan, X., Sarkar, M., Lartey, B., Gebru, B., Homaifar, A., Karimoddini, A. and Tunstel, E., 2023. An Online Learning Framework for Sensor Fault Diagnosis Analysis in Autonomous Cars. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol 24 (12), pp. 14467 - 14479 , 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2023.3305620
Hailemichael Abel, and Ali Karimoddini. "Development of a Robust Interval Type-2 TSK Fuzzy Logic Controlled UAV Platform." Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 107, no. 2 (2023): 27.
Tadewos, Tadewos G., Laya Shamgah, and Ali Karimoddini. "Automatic Decentralized Behavior Tree Synthesis and Execution for Coordination of Intelligent Vehicles." Knowledge-Based Systems 260 (2023): 110181.
Islam, M. M., Newaz, A. A. R., Song, L., Lartey, B., Lin, S. C., Fan, W., ... & Karimoddini, A. (2023). Connected autonomous vehicles: State of practice. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry.
Islam, Muhammad Mobaidul, and Ali Karimoddini. "Pedestrian Detection for Autonomous Cars: Inference Fusion of Deep Neural Networks." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 23, no. 12 (2022): 23358-23368.
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).
Ali Karimoddini, Mohammad Karimadini, and Hai Lin. "Decentralized modular hybrid supervisory control for the formation of unmanned helicopters." IET Control Theory & Applications 17, no. 2 (2023): 210-222.
Tadewos, Tadewos G., Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, and Ali Karimoddini. "Specification-guided behavior tree synthesis and execution for coordination of autonomous systems." Expert Systems with Applications 201 (2022): 117022.
Shamgah, Laya, Tadewos G. Tadewos, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Ali Karimoddini, and Albert C. Esterline. "Reactive Symbolic Planning and Control in Dynamic Adversarial Environments." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2022).
Karimoddini, Ali, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, Solomon Gebreyohannes, Mike Heiges, Ethan Trewhitt, and Abdollah Homaifar. "Automatic Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems." IEEE Access 10 (2022): 72227-72238.
Rabby, Md Khurram Monir, Ali Karimoddini, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, and Steven Jiang. "A Learning-Based Adjustable Autonomy Framework for Human–Robot Collaboration." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 18, no. 9 (2022): 6171-6180.
Karimoddini, Ali, Abel Hailemichael, and Mo Jamshidi. "FLC-ROS: A generic and configurable ROS package for developing fuzzy logic controllers." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems Preprint (2022): 1-16.
Khaleghi, Milad, Mojtaba Barkhordari Yazdi, Ali Karimoddini, and Malihe Maghfoori Farsangi. "A Communication Protocol for Decentralized Fault Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems." Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering (2022): 1-12.
Khaleghi, Milad, Mojtaba Barkhordari Yazdi, Ali Karimoddini, and Malihe Maghfoori Farsangi. "An inferencing structure for MPO‐based decentralized dynamic fault diagnosis." IET Control Theory & Applications 16, no. 2 (2022): 182-191.
Hashemi-Beni, Leila, Asmamaw Gebrehiwot, Ali Karimoddini, Abolghasem Shahbazi, and Freda Dorbu. "Deep convolutional neural networks for weeds and crops discrimination from UAS imagery." Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3 (2022): 1.
Dorbu, Freda Elikem, Leila Hashemi-Beni, Ali Karimoddini, and Abolghasem Shahbazi. "UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth." Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 87, no. 12 (2021): 891-899.
Lin, Shih-Chun, Kwang-Cheng Chen, and Ali Karimoddini. "SDVEC: software-defined vehicular edge computing with ultra-low latency." IEEE Communications Magazine 59, no. 12 (2021): 66-72.
Shamgah, Laya, Tadewos Getahun Tadewos, and Ali Karimoddini. "Design of smooth hybrid controllers for a class of non‐linear systems." IET Control Theory & Applications 14, no. 19 (2020): 3251-3259.
Alam, Tauhidul, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Leonardo Bobadilla, Wesam H. Alsabban, Ryan N. Smith, and Ali Karimoddini. "Towards energy-aware feedback planning for long-range autonomous underwater vehicles." Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8(2021): 2296-9144.
White, Alejandro, Ali Karimoddini, and Mohammad Karimadini. "Resilient fault diagnosis under imperfect observations-a need for industry 4.0 era." IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 7, no. 5 (2020): 1279-1288.
Girma, Abenezer, Niloofar Bahadori, Mrinmoy Sarkar, Tadewos G. Tadewos, Mohammad R. Behnia, M. Nabil Mahmoud, Ali Karimoddini, and Abdollah Homaifar. "IoT-enabled autonomous system collaboration for disaster-area management." IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 7, no. 5 (2020): 1249-1262.
Bates, Ira Wendell, Ali Karimoddini, and Mohammad Karimadini. "Learning a partially-known discrete event system." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 61806-61816.
Homaifar, Abdollah, Ali Karimoddini, Mike Heiges, Mubbashar A. Khan, Berat A. Erol, and Shabnam Nazmi. "A software tool for evaluating unmanned autonomous systems." The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation 41, no. 3 (2020):8-195 .
Hailemichael, Abel, Syed Moshfeq Salaken, Ali Karimoddini, Abdollah Homaifar, Khosravi Abbas, and Saeid Nahavandi. "Developing a computationally effective interval type-2 TSK fuzzy logic controller." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 38, no. 2 (2020): 1915-1928.
Alejandro White, Ali Karimoddini, “Event-based Diagnosis of Flight Maneuvers of a Fixed-wing Aircraft,” Journal of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 193 (2020): 106609. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.106609 .
Alejandro White, , Ali Karimoddini, Rong Su, “Fault Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems under Unknown Initial Conditions,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 64 (12), pp. 5246 - 5252, 2019.
A. Homaifar, , Ali Karimoddini, B. Erol, M. Khan, E. Tunstel, R. L. Roberts, R. F. Young, K. Snyder, R. S. Swanson, E. A. Doucette, M. J. Corey, “Operationalizing Autonomy: A Transition from Innovation Space to Real-world Operations,” IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 5 (4), pp. 23-32, 2019.
N. Namvar, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, and B. Maham, “Heterogeneous UAV Cells: An Effective Resource Allocation Scheme for Maximum Coverage Performance,” IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pp. 164708-164719, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2948822 .
M. Karimadini, H. Lin, A. Karimoddini, “Cooperative Tasking for Deterministic Specification Automata,” Asian Journal of Control, 18(6), pp.2078-2087, 2016. [Demonstration]
J. Larvie, M. Sefidmazgi, A. Homaifar, S. Harrison, A. Karimoddini, A. Guiseppi-Elie, “Stable gene regulatory network modeling from steady-state data,” Journal of Bioengineering, 2016.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, “Hierarchical Hybrid Symbolic Robot Motion Planning and Control,” Asian Journal of Control, 17 (1), pp. 23-33, 2015. [Demonstration]
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, B. Chen, B. and T. H. Lee, “Hierarchical Hybrid Modelling and Control of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” International Journal of Control, 87(9), pp. 1779-1793, 2014.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, B. M. Chen, and T. H. Lee, “A Bumpless Hybrid Supervisory Control Mechanism for the Formation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Mechatronics, 23(6), pp. 677-688, 2013.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, B. M. Chen, and T. H. Lee, “Hybrid three-dimensional formation control for unmanned helicopters,” Automatica, 49(2), pp 424-433, 2013.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, B. M. Chen, and T. H. Lee, “Hybrid Formation Control of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Mechatronics, 21(5), pp. 886-898, 2011. [Demonstration1, Demonstration 2]
A. Davari, M. H. Marhaban, S. Bahari M. Noor, M. Karimadini, A. Karimoddini, “Parameter estimation of K-distributed sea clutter based on fuzzy inference and Gustafson-Kessel clustering,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 163(1), pp. 45-53, 2011.
M. Tavasoli, H. Sarrafzadeh, A. Karimoddini, M. Khaleghi, T. Phuapaiboon, A. Goins, A. Harris, and J. Griffith, “Securing Rural Networks for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Through Trustworthy Federated ML-Driven Intrusion,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, “Assessing Collision Risks Due to Loss-of-Control In-Flight Events for Urban Air Mobility Operation in Dense Airspace,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, “Physics-Informed Neural Network for Trajectory Prediction During Loss-of-Control Situations to Enhance the Safety of Urban Air Mobility Operations,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, “A Modular Simulation Platform for Validation and Testing Urban Air Mobility Systems,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
A. Fuad, J. Matute, M. Khaleghi, and A. Karimoddini, “An Integrated Simulation Framework for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles: From Actuators to High-Fidelity Dynamics and Visualization,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
N. Yahi, J. Matute, and A. Karimoddini, “Ensuring Safe Separation at Urban Air Mobility Airspace Intersections: A Model Predictive Control-Based Conflict Resolution,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
M. Tavasoli, H. Sarrafzadeh, A. Karimoddini, M. Khaleghi, T. Phuapaiboon, and H. B. Pasandi, “Development of a Learning-Based In-Vehicle Intrusion Detection System for CAN-Bus Cybersecurity in Connected and Automated Vehicles,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
M. Tavasoli, H. Sarrafzadeh, M. Khaleghi, M. Zakaria, H. B. Pasandi, and A. Karimoddini, “Text Mining Analysis of Connected and Automated Vehicle Deployment Challenges in Rural Areas: A Systematic Review,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
M. Mamo, T. Getahun, and A. Karimoddini, “Robust Decision-Making Approach for Safe and Efficient Intersection Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
T. Getahun and A. Karimoddini, “Multi-Lane Centerline Prediction for Enhanced Lane Following,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
T. Tesfaye, T. Getahun, and A. Karimoddini, “Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Combining Radar and Camera Technology for Robust Object Detection,” TRB 105th Annual Meeting, 2026.
T. Getahun and A. Karimoddini, "From City Streets to Country Roads: Can Automated Vehicles Generalize Lane Detection?," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Driving and Smart Transportation, 2025.
T. Getahun and A. Karimoddini, "Assessing Lane Marking Visibility Range in Night-Time Driving: Do Current Lane Marking Visibility Standards Support Autonomous Vehicle Operation?," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Driving and Smart Transportation, 2025.
M. Zakaria, T. Getahun and A. Karimoddini, "AI-Enabled Traffic Sign Detection for Rural Operations of Connected and Automated Vehicles," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Driving and Smart Transportation, 2025.
T. Mengistu, D. Tobias, T. Getahun and A. Karimoddini, "Hardware-Triggered Synchronization Method for Robust Camera-Radar Fusion in Autonomous Driving," in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symp. (IV), 2026.
Mahsa Tavasoli, Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, Ali Karimoddini, Milad Khaleghi, Tienake Phuapaiboon, Amauri Goines, Aiden Harris, and Jason Griffith. "Trust-aware federated defense against data poisoning in ml-driven ids for cavs." In 2025 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2025.
Tekalign Mengistu, Tesfamichael Getahun, and Ali Karimoddini. "A Robust Radar-Camera Fusion for 2D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving." In 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 2842-2847. IEEE, 2025.
Amir Milad Moshref Javadi, Steven Xiaochun Jiang, Sita Ram Prasad Martha, Ali Karimoddini, Parham Mohsenzadeh Kebria, and Sajad Khorsandroo. "Analyzing Driver Behavior Distraction During Animal Crossing on Rural Roads: Insights From Eye Tracking and Vehicle-in-the-Loop Driving Simulation." In IISE Annual Conference. Proceedings, pp. 1-6. Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2025.
Negasa Yahi, Jose Matute, Abdollah Homaifar, and Ali Karimoddini. "Rule-Based Behavior Planning to Resolve Separation Loss in UAM Off-Nominal Situations." In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2025.
Michael Azage, Jose Matute, and Ali Karimoddini. "Development and Implementation of Safe, Human-like Autonomous Vehicle Control on Horizontal Curves." In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2025.
Tavasoli, M., Sarrafzadeh, A., Karimoddini, A., Khaleghi, M., & Pasandi, H. B. (2025, December). Hybrid Clustering-Transformer IDS for Rural CAVs. In Proceedings of the CoNEXT'25 Student workshop (pp. 7-8).
[Jose Matute and Ali Karimoddini, Robust Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Challenging Roads, TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2025.
Muhammad Mobaidul Islam, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Tesfamichael Getahun, and Ali Karimoddini, “Enhancing Pedestrian Detection in Autonomous Vehicles through Multi-modal Information Fusion,” TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2025.
Negasa Yahi, Jose Matute, and Ali Karimoddini, Online decision-making for separation assurance of UAM aircraft in Off-nominal Situations, TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2025.
Michael Azage, Jose Matute, and Ali Karimoddini. "Learning from Human Driver Demonstration for Speed Control of Ground Autonomous Vehicles." In 2024 IEEE 19th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2024.
Negasa Yahi, Jose Matute, and Ali Karimoddini. "Risk Assessment of Loss of Control In-Flight Trajectories for Urban Air Mobility Safety." In 2024 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2024.
Azmol Fuad, Jose Matute, Milad Khaleghi, and Ali Karimoddini. "A Novel Integrated Flight Simulation Framework: From Actuators to High-Fidelity Dynamics to Flight Visualization." In 2024 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2024.
Anh Phuong Ngo, Christan Thomas, Ali Karimoddini, and Hieu T. Nguyen. “Multi-UAV trajectory planning problem using the difference of convex function programming," Proc. of 62th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023).
Tienake Phuapaiboon, Jose Matute, Daniel Tobias, Tesfamichael Getahun, Ali Karimoddini, Development of a Testbed of Connected Autonomous Vehicles, TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2024
E. Marfo, T. Getahun, Ali Karimoddini, Concrete surface defect detection and classification from UAV imagery Using Ensemble Learning, TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2024.
Jose Matute, Mario Rodriguez-Arozamena, Joshue Perez, and Ali Karimoddini, “Sensor Fusion-Based Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles in Rural Forested Environments,” 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC 2023, Spain September 2023.
Tesfamchael Getahun, Ali Karimoddini, GPS-guided Vision-based Lane Detection for Autonomous Vehicles, 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC 2023, Spain September 2023.
Matute, Jose A., Sergio Diaz, Asier Zubizarreta, Ali Karimoddini, and Joshue Perez. "An Approach to Global and Behavioral Planning for Automated Forklifts in Structured Environments." In 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 3423-3428. IEEE, 2022.
Lartey, Benjamin, Lydia Zeleke, Xuyang Yan, Kishor Datta Gupta, Abdollah Homaifar, and Ali Karimoddini. "A Data-driven Approach for Travel Time Prediction and Analysis." In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 834-839. IEEE, 2022.
Mahama, Edward, Ali Karimoddini, Mubbashar A. Khan, Tara L. Cavalline, Rodward L. Hewlin, Elizabeth Smith, and Abdollah Homaifar. "Testing and Evaluating the Impact of Illumination Levels on UAV-assisted Bridge Inspection." In 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2022.
Islam, Muhammad Mobaidul, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Renran Tian, Abdollah Homaifar, and Ali Karimoddini. "A computationally effective pedestrian detection using constrained fusion with body parts for autonomous driving." In 2021 Fifth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), pp. 106-110. IEEE, 2021.
Muhammad Mobaidul Islam, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, and Ali Karimoddini, “Pedestrian Detection for Autonomous Cars: Inference Fusion of Deep Neural Networks,” Proc. of 2021 the IEEE SMC Conference, 2021.
Lartey, Benjamin, Abdollah Homaifar, Abenezer Girma, Ali Karimoddini, and Daniel Opoku. "XGBoost: a tree-based approach for traffic volume prediction." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1280-1286. IEEE, 2021.
Islam, Muhammad Mobaidul, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, and Ali Karimoddini. "A pedestrian detection and tracking framework for autonomous cars: Efficient fusion of camera and LiDAR data." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1287-1292. IEEE, 2021.
Getahun, Tesfamchael, Ali Karimoddini, and Priyantha Mudalige. "A deep learning approach for lane detection." In 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), pp. 1527-1532. IEEE, 2021.
Hewlin Jr, Rodward L., Elizabeth Smith, Tara Cavalline, and Ali Karimoddini. "Aerodynamic performance evaluation of a skydio uav via cfd as a platform for bridge girder inspection: Phase 1 study." In Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, vol. 85284, p. V001T02A015. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021.
Gudeta, Solomon, Ali Karimoddini, Mohammadreza Davoodi, and Ioannis Raptis. "Leaderless swarm formation control: From global specifications to local control laws." In 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 808-813. IEEE, 2021.
Sarku, Enoch, Jonathan Steele, Tyesha Ruffin, Balakrishna Gokaraju, and Ali Karimodini. "Reducing data costs-transfer learning based traffic sign classification approach." In SoutheastCon 2021, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2021.
Mahama, Edward, Thisara Walpita, Ali Karimoddini, Abdullah Eroglu, Navid Goudarzi, Tara Cavalline, and Mubbashar Khan. "Testing and evaluation of radio frequency immunity of unmanned aerial vehicles for bridge inspection." In 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2021.
Gudeta, Solomon, Ali Karimoddini, and Mohammadreza Davoodi. "Robust dynamic average consensus for a network of agents with time-varying reference signals." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1368-1373. IEEE, 2020.
Rabby, Md Khurram Monir, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, Ali Karimoddini, and Steven Xiaochun Jiang. "Modeling of Trust Within a Human-Robot Collaboration Framework." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 4267-4272. IEEE, 2020.
Islam, Muhammad Mobaidul, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Balakrishna Gokaraju, and Ali Karimoddini. "Pedestrian detection for autonomous cars: Occlusion handling by classifying body parts." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1433-1438. IEEE, 2020.
Gebreyohannes, Solomon, Ali Karimoddini, and Abdollah Homaifar. "Applying Model-Based Systems Engineering to the Development of a Test and Evaluation Tool for Unmanned Autonomous Systems." In 2020 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2020.
HekmatiAthar, SeyyedPooya, Navid Goudarzi, Ali Karimoddini, Abdollah Homaifar, and Darshan Divakaran. "A systematic evaluation and selection of UAS-enabled solutions for bridge inspection practices." In 2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-11. IEEE, 2020.
Tadewos, Tadewos G., Laya Shamgah, and Ali Karimoddini. "Automatic safe behaviour tree synthesis for autonomous agents." In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 2776-2781. IEEE, 2019.
Tadewos, Tadewos G., Laya Shamgah, and Ali Karimoddini. "On-the-fly decentralized tasking of autonomous vehicles." In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 2770-2775. IEEE, 2019.
Rabby, Khurram Monir, Mubbashar Khan, Ali Karimoddini, and Steven Xiaochun Jiang. "An effective model for human cognitive performance within a human-robot collaboration framework." In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 3872-3877. IEEE, 2019. [Presentation]
S Gudeta, A. Karimoddini, “Design of a Smooth Landing Trajectory Tracking System for a Fixed-wing Aircraft,” Proc. of 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), 2019. [Demonstration]
Vinh K, Solomon Gebreyohannes, Ali Karimoddini, “An Area-decomposition Based Approach for Cooperative Tasking and Coordination of UAVs in a Search and Coverage Mission,” Proc. of 2019 the IEEE Aerospace Conference. [Demonstration]
Tesfamichael Getahun, Ali Karimoddini, Leila Hashemi Beni, Priyantha Mudalige, “An Enhanced Lane Detection Algorithm Based on Gabor Filter,” The 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2018), 2018. [Demonstration, Presentation]
Mohammad Karimadini, Ali Karimoddini, and Abdollah Homaifar, “A Survey on Fault-Tolerant Supervisory Control,” Proc. 61st IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2018.
Mohammad Karimadini, Ali Karimoddini, and Hai Lin, “Modular Cooperative Tasking for Multi-agent Systems,” The 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE ICCA 2018).
Solomon Gebreyohannes, Ali Karimoddini, Abdollah Homaifar, and Albert Esterline, “Formal Verification of a Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifier Using the Prototype Verification System” Proc. of the 37th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference, NAFIPS 2018. [Presentation]
Abel Hailemichael, Mohammadreza Behniapour, Ali Karimoddini, “Development of an Interval Type-2 TSK Fuzzy Logic Attitude Controller for a UAV,” The 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'18), 2018.
Laya Shamgah, Tadewos G. Tadewos, Ali Karimoddini, and Abdollah Homaifar, “Path Planning and Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Dynamic Reach-avoid Scenarios,” Proc. of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2018).
Abel Hailemichael, Solomon Gebreyohannes, Ali Karimoddini, Kaushik Roy, Abdollah Homaifar, “Development of a Generic and Configurable Fuzzy Logic Systems Library for Real-Time Control Applications Using an Object-oriented Approach,” Proc. of 2018 Second IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 2018. [Github Source]
L. Shamgah, T. G. Tadewos, A. Karimoddini, and A. Homaifar, “A Symbolic Approach for Multi-target Dynamic Reach-avoid Problem,” The 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE ICCA 2018).
A. White, A. Karimoddini, “Asynchronous Failure Diagnosis for Discrete Event Systems,” Proc of 2017 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC 2017).
S. Amsalu, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, A. Kurt, “Driver Intention Estimation via Discrete Hidden Markov Model,” Proc. of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
M. Karimi, A. Karimoddini, A. White, W. Bates, “Event-Based Fault Diagnosis for an Unknown Plant,” Proc. of 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec 12-14, 2016.
A. White, A. Karimoddini, “Semi-Asynchronous Failure Diagnosis for Discrete Event Systems,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2016).
L. Shamgah, A. Karimoddini, A. Homaifar, “A Symbolic Motion Planning Approach for the Reach-avoid Problem,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2016).
Zihao Wang, Saina Ramyar, Syed Moshfeq Salaken, Abdollah Homaifar, Saeid Nahavandi, Ali Karimoddini, “A Collision Avoidance System with Fuzzy Danger Level Detection,” Proc. of 2017 IEEE International Conference of Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
M. G. Sefidmazgi, M. M. Kordmahalleh, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, E. Tunstel, “A Bounded Switching Approach for Identification of Switched MIMO Systems,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2016).
S. Ramyar, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, E. Tunstel, “Identification of Anomalies in Lane Change Behavior Using One-Class SVM,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2016).
J. Dai, A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, “Achieving Fault-tolerance and Safety of Discrete-event Systems through Learning,” Proc. of 2016 IEEE American Control Conference, July 6-8, 2016.
M. Behniapoor, Z. Yuan, A. Hailemichael, V. K, B. Bowles, A. Karimoddini, A. Homaifar, “Development of a Micro Aerial Vehicle,” Proc. of 2016 World Automation Congress (WAC2016), Puerto Rico, July 31 - August 4, 2016.
S. Ramyar, A. Homaifar, A. Anzagira, A. Karimoddini, A. Kurt, “Fuzzy Modeling of Drivers’ Actions at Intersections,” Proc. of 2016 World Automation Congress (WAC2016), Puerto Rico, July 31 - August 4, 2016.
N. Enyinna, A. Karimoddini, D. Opoku, A. Homaifar, S. Arnold, “Developing an Interval Fuzzy Type-2 TSK Controller,” Proc. of 34th Annual IEEE Conference of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society).
S. Ramyar, M. G. Sefidmazgi, S. Amsalu, A. Anzagira, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, A. Kurt, “Modeling Driver Behavior at Intersections Using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models,” Proc. of 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Canary Islands, Spain, Sep. 15-18, 2015.
A. Karimoddini, M. Karimadini, H. Lin, A. Homaifar, “Development of a Decentralized Cooperative Control Technique for Collision Avoidance of Unmanned helicopters,” 2015 AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference.
M.G. Sefidmazgi, M.M. Kordmahalleh, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, “Switched Linear System Identification based on Bounded-Switching Clustering,” Proc. of The IEEE American Control Conference, Chicago, 2015.
M.M. Kordmahalleh, M.G. Sefidmazgi, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, A. Guiseppi-Elie, J. L. Graves, “Delayed and Hidden Variables Interactions in Gene Regulatory Networks,” 14th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, 2014.
M.M. Kordmahalleh, M.G. Sefidmazgi, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, A. Guiseppi-Elie, J. L. Graves, “Gene Regulatory Networks with Hidden-Delayed Parameters,” 2014 North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Annual Conference, 2014.
A. Karimoddini, M. Karimadini, H. Lin, “Decentralized Hybrid Formation Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” The IEEE American Control Conference, Oregon, 2014.
M. G. Sefidmazgi, M. M. Kordmahalleh, A. Homaifar, and A. Karimoddini, “A Finite Element Based Method for Identification of Switched Linear Systems,” the IEEE American Control Conference, Oregon, 2014.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, B. M. Chen, and T. H. Lee, “A Smooth Hybrid Symbolic Control for a Team of UAVs Over a Partitioned space,” Proc. of the 2013 American Control Conference, USA, 2013.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, “Hybrid symbolic control for robot motion planning,” Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, China, 2013.
A. Karimoddini, X. Dong, G. Cai, L. Feng, H. Lin, B. M. Chen, T. H. Lee, “A Composed Hybrid Structure for the Autonomous Flight Control of Unmanned Helicopters,” 18th IFAC World Congress (IFAC), Italy, 2011.
A. Karimoddini, G. Cai, B. M. Chen, H. Lin, and T. H. Lee, “Multi-layer Flight Control Synthesis and Analysis of a Small-scale UAV Helicopter,” 4th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), Singapore, 2010.
A. Karimoddini, H. Lin, B. M. Chen, and T. H. Lee, “Developments in hybrid modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles,” 7th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, New Zealand, 2009.
A. Karimoddini, K. Salahshoor, A. Fatehi, M. Karimadini, “A New Approach for Online Fuzzy Identification,” European Control Conference (ECC2007), Greece, 2007.
A. Karimoddini, K. Salahshoor, A. Fatehi, M. Karimadini, “Overcoming with Overfitting Problem in Fuzzy GK Clustering Algorithm,” ATTCE 2006, Malaysia, 2006.
Karimoddini, Ali, Tara L. Cavalline, Beth Smith, Rodward Hewlin, and Abdollah Homaifar. UAV Selection Methodology and Performance Evaluation to Support UAV-Enabled Bridge Inspection. No. FHWA/NC/2020-23. 2022.