A fast sampling method for estimating the domain of attraction

E Najafi, R Babuška, GAD Lopes - Nonlinear dynamics, 2016 - Springer
Most stabilizing controllers designed for nonlinear systems are valid only within a specific
region of the state space, called the domain of attraction (DoA). Computation of the DoA is …

ROS-based SLAM and navigation for a Gazebo-simulated autonomous quadrotor

Y Alborzi, BS Jalal, E Najafi - 2020 21st International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective robot navigation is crucial for the proper implementation of a mobile robot. To
navigate a robot in an indoor or outdoor environment, a map of the surrounding obstacles is …

Robot contact language for manipulation planning

E Najafi, A Shah, GAD Lopes - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The task of robotic manipulation planning combines high-level decision-making with low-
level controllers that interact with the environment. Generating interfaces between these two …

Learning sequential composition control

E Najafi, R Babuška, GAD Lopes - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sequential composition is an effective supervisory control method for addressing control
problems in nonlinear dynamical systems. It executes a set of controllers sequentially to …

An implementation of AutomationML for an Industry 4.0 case study: RoboCup@ Work

E Najafi, T Laugs, PN Rubio… - 2019 20th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a system design of the mobile platform build by the RoboHub
Eindhoven (a student organization) for the RoboCup@ Work competition, as an industry 4.0 …

Model-based design approach for an industry 4.0 case study: a pick and place robot

E Najafi, M Ansari - 2019 23rd International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pick and place robots are frequently used in industry for different applications. This paper
presents an implementation of model-based design for a pick and place application as an …

Towards cooperative sequential composition control

E Najafi, GAD Lopes - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sequential composition is a supervisory control architecture for addressing control problems
in complex dynamical systems. Although sequential composition works properly for a single …

Model-based design for a self-balancing robot using the arduino micro-controller board

VY Philippart, KO Snel, AM de Waal… - 2019 23rd …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-balancing robot control is a common way to challenge students in control-oriented
courses to stabilize an unstable, non-linear dynamic system. This paper presents an …

Reinforcement Learning based Sequential Controller for Mobile Robots with Obstacle Avoidance

S Mashhouri, M Rahmati, Y Borhani… - 2022 8th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Obstacle avoidance and path planning play substantial roles in mobile robot applications.
This paper has two main parts: first, an object detection algorithm based on YOLO-v4 with …

Design and manual control of a 3 degrees of freedom social robotic manipulator

P Khajehpour, E Najafi - 2020 21st International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, we have invited social robots to our daily lives. As such, we need to have a good
understanding of this class of robots. This paper explores the characteristics, applications …