About

Aliasghar Arab is a leading researcher in the field of advanced robotics and autonomous vehicle control, with a primary focus on robust and optimal control strategies for mobile manipulators, wheeled mobile robots, and autonomous racing vehicles. His major contributions include the development of an adaptive gradient descent-based local search in memetic algorithms for optimal controller design (83 citations) and a robust impedance control framework for uncertain mobile manipulators using time-delay compensation (54 citations), which effectively handles nonholonomic constraints, nonlinear dynamics, and motor dynamics coupling. Arab has also pioneered voltage control strategies for wheeled mobile robots (41 citations) and addressed the critical challenge of transferring optimal control designs from simulation to real-world applications (14 citations). His notable work on safe predictive control for four-wheel mobile robots with independent steering and drive (14 citations) and safety prioritization through iterative feedback linearization for collaborative robots (6 citations) demonstrates his commitment to human-centric autonomous systems. Additionally, his research on aggressive vehicle maneuvers (13 citations) and autonomous racing vehicles (4 citations) pushes the boundaries of vehicle dynamics and safety. With a total of over 240 citations, Arab’s work is instrumental in advancing safe, optimal, and robust control for next-generation autonomous systems.

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Key Achievements

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H-Index
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245
Total Citations
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
An adaptive gradient descent-based local search in memetic algorithm applied to optimal controller design
83 citations · 2014
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2014 (4 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 15
🏛 Institutions: University of Shahrood, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Nokia (United States), New York University, City University of New York

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    Safe motion control and planning for autonomous racing vehicles
    4 citations · 2021
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