Bio
Dr. Karimoddini is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University. His teaching and research interests cover a variety of problems at the intersection of Control, Communication, and Computer Science. Dr. Karimoddini is the Director of CR2C2 Regional University Transportation Center (UTC), NC-CAV Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and the Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems (ACCESS) Lab. He has received over $55 million in grants and contracts from federal funding agencies and industrial partners as the PI or Co-PI to research the development of autonomous vehicles and their applications. He is the recipient of the NC A&T 2015 Rookie of the year and 2019 and 2021 Interdisciplinary Research Award. He is also a senior member of IEEE.
Research Interests
Smart Transportation; Connected and Autonomous Vehicles; Battlefield Management; Internet of Things; Air Mobility; Cyber-Physical Systems; Control and Robotics; Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Control Systems; Human-Machine Interactions; Multi-Agent Systems; Infrastructure Inspection; Smart Agriculture; Robotic Swarms; Aerial Robotics; Self-Driving Cars; Testing and Evaluation.
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Recent Publications
- X. Yan, M. Sarkar, B. Lartey, B. Gebru, Abdollah Homaifar, Ali Karimoddini, E. Tunstel (2023). (An Online Learning Framework for Sensor Fault Diagnosis Analysis in Autonomous Cars). (12) 24, pp. 14467 - 14479 . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- T. Tadewos, L. Shamgah, Ali Karimoddini (2023). (Automatic Decentralized Tasking and Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles). 260, pp. 11018. Knowledge-Based Systems.
- Muhammad Mobaidul Islam, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Li Song, Benjamin Lartey, Shih‐Chun Lin, Wei Fan, Ali Hajbabaie, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, Alireza Partovi, Tienake Phuapaiboon, Abdollah Homaifar, Ali Karimoddini (2023). (Connected autonomous vehicles: State of practice). (5) 39, pp. 684-700. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry.
- Solomon Gudeta , Ali Karimoddini, Negasa Yahi (2023). (Consensus Based Distributed Collective Motion of Swarm of Quadcopters). IEEE Internet of Things Journal .
- Muhammad Mobaidul Islam, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Li Song, Benjamin Lartey, Shih‐Chun Lin, Wei Fan, Ali Hajbabaie, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, Alireza Partovi, Tienake Phuapaiboon, Abdollah Homaifar, Ali Karimoddini (2023). (Decentralized Modular Hybrid Supervisory Control for the Formation of Unmanned Helicopters). (5) 39, pp. 684-700. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry.
- Ali Karimoddini, Mohammad Karimadini, Lin Hai (2023). (Decentralized Modular Hybrid Supervisory Control for the Formation of Unmanned Helicopters). 17, pp. 210-222. IET Control Theory and Applications.
- A. Hailemichael, Ali Karimoddini, M. Jamshidi (2023). (Development of a Robust Interval Type-2 TSK Fuzzy Logic Controlled UAV Platform). (2) 107, pp. 27. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems.
- M. Khaleghi, M. Barkhordari Yazdi, Ali Karimoddini (2022). (A communication protocol for decentralized fault diagnosis of discrete event systems). 46, pp. 589–600. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering.
- M. , M. B. Yazdi, Karimoddini, M. Farsangi (2022). (A Coordination Protocol for Decentralized Dynamic Fault Diagnosis). (2) 16, pp. 182-191 . IET Control Theory & Applications.
- W. Bates, Ali Karimoddini, M. Karimadini (2022). (A Learning-based Approach for Diagnosis and Diagnosability of Initially Unknown Discrete Event Systems). IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
- Ali Karimoddini, Milad khaleghi, Mojtaba Barkhordari Yazdi, Malihe M. Farsangi (2022). (An inferencing structure for MPO-based decentralized dynamic fault diagnosis). (2) 16, pp. 182-191 . IET Control Theory & Applications.
- Ali Karimoddini, Mubbashar A. Khan, Solomon , Mike , Ethan , Abdollah Homaifar, (2022). (Automatic Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems). 10, pp. 72227-72238. IEEE Access.
- Leila Hashemi-Beni, A. Gebrehiwot, Ali Karimoddini, Abolghasem Shahbazi, F. Dorbu (2022). (Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Weeds and Crops Discrimination from UAS Imagery). 3, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, section Unmanned Aerial Systems .
- Ali Karimoddini, A. Hailemichael, M. Jamshidi (2022). (FLC-ROS: A Generic and Configurable ROS Package for Developing Fuzzy Logic Controllers). (6) 42, pp. 4891-4906. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems.
- M. Islam, A. Newaz, Ali Karimoddini (2022). (Pedestrian Detection for Autonomous Cars: Inference Fusion of Deep Neural Networks). (12) 23, pp. 23358-23368. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- L. Shamgah, T. Tadewos, A. Newaz, Ali Karimoddini, Albert Esterline (2022). (Reactive Planning and Control in Dynamic Adversarial Environments). (6) 68, pp. 3409 - 3424. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
- Kwang-Cheng Chen, Shih-Chun Lin, Ali Karimoddini (2022). (SD-VEC: Software-Defined Vehicular Edge Computing with Ultra-Low Latency). (12) 59, pp. 66-72. IEEE Communications Magazine.
- Tadewos G. Tadewosa, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Ali Karimoddini (2022). (Specification-guided Behavior Tree Synthesis and Execution). 201, pp. 117022. Expert Systems with Applications.
- Md Khurram Monir Rabby, Ali Karimoddini, Mubbashar Altaf Khan, Steven Jiang (2021). (A Learning-based Adjustable Autonomy Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration). (9) 18, pp. 6171 - 6180. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics .
- Laya Shamgah, Tadewos G. Tadewos, Ali Karimoddini (2021). (On the Design of Smooth Hybrid Controllers for a Class of Non-linear Systems). (19) 14, pp. 3251 – 3259. IET Control Theory & Applications.
- Tauhidul Alam, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Leonardo Bobadilla, Wesam H Alsabban, Ryan N Smith, Ali Karimoddini (2021). (Towards Energy-Aware Feedback Planning for Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles). (19) 14, pp. 3251 – 3259. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
- Freda Dorbu, Leila Hashemi-Beni, Ali Karimoddini, Abolghasem Shahbazi (2021). (UAV Remote Sensing Assessment of Crop Growth). (12) 87, pp. 891-899. Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing.
- Abdollah Homaifar, Ali Karimoddini, Mike Heiges, Mubbashar Khan, Berat Erol, Shabnam Nazmi (2020). (A Software Tool for Evaluating Unmanned Autonomous Systems). (3) 41, pp. 188-195. The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation.
- A. Hailemichael, S.M. salaken, Ali Karimoddini, Abdollah Homaifar, A. Khosravi, S. Nahavandi (2020). (Developing a Computationally Effective Interval Type-2 TSK Fuzzy Logic Controller). (2) 38, pp. 1915-1928. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems.
- A. White, Ali Karimoddini (2020). (Event-based Diagnosis of Flight Maneuvers of a Fixed-wing Aircraft). (1) 193, pp. 1-11. Elsevier Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety.
- A. Girma , N Bahadori, M. Sarkar, T. Tadewos, M. Behiapoor, Mahmoud Mahmoud, Ali Karimoddini, Abdollah Homaifar (2020). (IoT-enabled Autonomous System Collaboration for Disaster-Area Management). (5) 7, pp. 1249-1262. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.
- W. Bates, Ali Karimoddini, M. Karimadini (2020). (Learning a Partially-Known Discrete Event System). pp. 61806 - 61816. Journal of IEEE ACCESS.
- A. White, Ali Karimoddini, M Karimadini (2020). (Resilient Fault Diagnosis under Imperfect Observations-A Need for Industry 4.0 Era). (5) 7, pp. 1279-1288. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.
- Alejandro White , Ali Karimoddini, Rong Su (2019). (Fault Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems under Unknown Initial Conditions). (12) 64, pp. 5246 - 5252. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
- N. Namvar, Abdollah Homaifar, Ali Karimoddini, B. Maham (2019). (Heterogeneous UAV Cells: An Effective Resource Allocation Scheme for Maximum Coverage Performance). 7, pp. 164708 - 164719. IEEE Access.
- Abdollah Homaifar, Ali Karimoddini, B. Erol, M. Khan, E. Tunstel, R. Roberts, R Young, K. Snyder, R. Swanson, E. Doucette (2019). (Operationalizing Autonomy: A Transition from Innovation Space to Real-world Operations). (4) 5, pp. 23-32. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine.
- M Karimadini, H Lin, Ali Karimoddini (2016). (Cooperative Tasking for Deterministic Specification Automata). (6) 8, pp. 2078-2087. Asian Journal of Control.
- Joy Larvie, Mohammed Sefidmazgi, Abdollah Homaifar, Scott Harrison, Ali Karimoddini, Anthony Guiseppi-Elie (2016). (Stable Gene Regulatory Network Modeling From Steady-State Data). In Aldo R. Boccaccini, (12) 3, pp. 15. Bioengineering.
- Ali Karimoddini, Hai Lin (2015). (Hierarchical Hybrid Symbolic Robot Motion Planning and Control). (1) 17, pp. 23-33. Asian Journal of Control.
- Ali Karimoddini, Hai Lin, Ben Chen, T.H. Lee (2014). (Hierarchical Hybrid Modelling and Control of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). (9) 87, pp. 1779-1793. International Journal of Control.
- Ali Karimoddini, Hai Lin, Ben Chen, T.H. Lee (2013). (A Bumpless Hybrid Supervisory Control Mechanism for the Formation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). (6) 23, pp. 677-688. Mechatronics.
- Ali Karimoddini, Lin Hai, Ben Chen, T.H. Lee (2013). (Hybrid three-dimensional formation control for unmanned helicopters). (2) 49, pp. 424-433. Automatica.
- Ali Karimoddini (2011). (Hybrid Formation Control of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). (5) 21, pp. 886-898. Mechatronics.
- A. Davari, M. H. Marhaban, S. Bahari M. Noor, M. Karimadini, Ali Karimoddini (2011). (Parameter Estimation of K-distributed Sea Clutter Based on Fuzzy Inference and Gustafson-Kessel Clustering). (1) 163, pp. 45-53. Fuzzy Sets and Systems.