Theses


Nonlinear Receding Horizon Control: A Control Lyapunov Function Approach
Ph.D. Thesis, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, October 2000.

Robust, Non-fragile Controller Synthesis Using Model-Based Fuzzy Systems: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach
M.S. Thesis, EECE Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, December 1997.



Journal Papers


Bayesian Group Decisions: Algorithms and Complexity.
A. jadbabaie, E. Mossel, M. A Rahimian.
Working paper, 2017.

Bayesian Heuristics for Group Decisions.
M.A. Rahimian and A. Jadbabaie.
submitted for publication, 2017.

Distributed Online Optimization in Dynamic Environments Using Mirror Descent.
S. Shahrampour and Ali Jadbabaie.
To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017

Local Optimality of Almost Piecewise-Linear Quantizers for Witsenhausen's Problem.
A. Ajorlou and A. Jadbabaie.
Revise and Resubmit, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, June 2017

Bayesian learning without recall .
M.A> Rahimian and A. Jadbabaie.
IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks,Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2017.

A Theory of Non-Bayesian Social Learning.
P. Molavi, A. Tahbaz-Salehi, and A. Jadbabaie
Econometrica, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 445-490, March 2018.

Optimal Contracting in Networks.
A. Kakhbod and A. Jadbabaie
submitted for publication, May 2017.

Learning to coordinate in social networks (new version) .
P. Molavi, C. Eksin, A. Ribeiro, and A. Jadbabaie
Operations Research,February 2016.

Dynamic pricing in social networks: the Word of Mouth effect;
A. Ajorlou, A. jadbabaie, and A Kakhbod
Management Science, November 2016

On the Degree Distribution of Polya Urn Graph Processes;
R. tutunov, H. Buammar, E. Eaton and A. Jadbabaie
Working paper,October 2014

Distributed Detection : Finite-time Analysis and Impact of Network Topology;
S. Shahinpour, A. Rakhlin, A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, November 2016

Minimal Actuator Placement with Bounds on Control Effort;
V. Tzoumas, M. A. Rahimian, G. J. Pappas, A. Jadbabaie, IEEE Tranactions on control of Network systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2016

Optimal Budget Allocation in Social Networks: Quality or Seeding
A. Fazeli, A. Ajorlou, A. Jadbabaie, IEEE Tranactions on control of Network systems, to appear, 2017

Optimal Distributed Control fpr Platooning via Sparse Coprime Factorization
S. Sabau, C. Oara, S. Warnick, and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Vol. 62, No. 1, January 2017

Collaborative scalar-gain estimators for potentially unstable social dynamics with limited communication
U. Khan and A. Jadbabaie
Automatica, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 1909-1914, July 2014.

Online learning of dynamic parameters in social networks S. Shahinpour, A. Rakhlin, A. Jadbabaie
NIPS 2013 . This version, March 2014

Learning to Coordinate in Social Networks;
P. Molavi, C. Eksin, A. Ribeiro, and A. Jadbabaie
Working paper, July 2013

Information Heterogeneity and the Speed of Learning in Social Networks;
A. Jadbabaie, P. Molavi, A. Sandroni, and A. Tahbaz-Salehi
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-28, June 2013

Learning in Network Games with Incomplete Information
C. Eksin, P. Molavi, A. Ribeiro, and A. Jadbabaie
Signal Processing Magazine, May 2013, pp. 30-42.

Reaching Consensus with Increasing Information
P. Molavi, A.Tahbaz-Salehi, K. Rahnama-Rad, and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Journal Of Selected Topics In Signal Processing, Vol. 7, No. 2, APRIL 2013

Natural Algorithms in a Netwoked World
A. Jadbabaie
Communications of the ACM, Research Highlights, Vol. 55, No.12, pp. 100, December 2012

Non-Bayesian social learning;
A. Jadbabaie, P. Molavi, A. Sandroni, and A. Tahbaz-Salehi
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 76, pp. 210-225, September 2012

Structural analysis of Laplacian spectral properties with application to electric transmission networks.
V. Preciado, A. Jadbabaie, and G. C. Verghese
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 58, No. 9, September 2013

A distributed Newton method for network utility maximization:Part I
E. Wei, A. Ozdaglar, and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, in press

A distributed Newton method for network utility maximization:Part II
E. Wei, A. Ozdaglar, and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, in press

Moment-Based Analysis of Spreading Processes from Network Structural Information.
V. Preciado and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking , Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 373-382, January 2013

Consensus over ergodic stationary graph processes.
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Vol. 55, No.1, January 2010.

Distributed coverage verification in sensor networks without location information.
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Vol. 55, No.8, August 2010.

Effects of delay in multi-agent consensus and oscillator synchronization.
A. Papachristodoulou, A. Jadbabaie, and U. Munz
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear in Vol. 55, No.6, June 2010.

Delay robustness of nonlinear internet congestion control schemes.
A. Papachristodoulou and A. Jadbabaie.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , Vol. 55, No. 5, May 2010.

Vision-based, distributed control laws for motion coordination of nonholonomic robots.
N. Moshtagh, N. Michael, A. Jadbabaie, and K. Daniilidis
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol.25, no.4, pp.851-860, Aug. 2009.

Approximation of the joint spectral radius using sum of squares.
P. Parrilo and A. Jadbabaie
Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 428, pp. 2385-2402.

Distributed multiparametric quadratic programming.
N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 2279-2289, October 2009

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Consensus over random networks.
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 53, No.3, pp.791-796, April 2008.

Reply to comments on errors in "Optimal control of spatially distributed systems,"
N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted .

Optimal control of spatially distributed systems.
N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No.7, August 2008.

Density functions for navigation function based systems.
S.G. Loizou and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 612-617, March 2008.

A framework for worst-Case and stochastic safety verification using barrier certificates.
S. Prajna, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J. Pappas
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 1415-1429, August 2007.

Flocking in fixed and switching networks.
H. Tanner, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J. Pappas
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No.5, pp. 863-868.

Distributed geodesic control laws for flocking of nonholonomic agents.
N. Moshtagh and A. Jadbabaie
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 681-686, April 2007.

Input-to-state stable finite horizon MPC for neutrally stable linear discrete-time systems with input constraints.
J.S. Kim, T. W. Yoon, A. Jadbabaie, and C. De Persis.
Systems and Control letters, Vol. 55, 2006, pp. 293-303.

Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules
A. Jadbabaie, J. Lin, and A. S. Morse
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 48, No. 6, June 2003, pp. 988-1001.

On the stability of receding horizon control with a general terminal cost
A. Jadbabaie and J. Hauser
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 50, No.5, May 2005.

Control of a thrust-vectored flying wing: A receding horizon/LPV approach
A. Jadbabaie and J. Hauser
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 12, No. 9 , July 2002, pp. 869-896.

Unconstrained receding horizon control of nonlinear systems
A. Jadbabaie, J. Yu, and J. Hauser
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 46, No 5, May 2001, pp.776-783.

Comparison of nonlinear control design techniques on a model of the Caltech ducted fan
J. Yu, A. Jadbabaie, J. Primbs and Y. Huang
Automatica, Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 1971-1978, December 2001

Robust non-fragile LQ controllers: the static state feedback case
D. Famularo, C. Abdallah, P. Dorato, W. Haddad, and A. Jadbabaie
International Journal of Control, VOL. 73, No. 2, pages 159-165, January 2000


Book Chapters


Bearing-only control laws for baanced circular formation of ground robots
N. Moshtagh, N. Michael, A. Jadbabaie, and K Daniilidis, in J Trinkle and O. Brock (Editors)
Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems IV Zurich, June 2008.

Approximation of the joint spectral radius of a set of matrices using sum of squares
P. Parrilo and A. Jadbabaie, in Alberto Bemporad, Antonio Bicchi and Giorgio Buttazzo (Editors),
Hybrid Systems:Computation and Control Springer Lecture Notes in Compter Science, 2007.

Dynamic coverage verification in Mobile Sensor Networks Via Switched Higher Order Laplacians
A. Muhammad and A. Jadbabaie, in Oliver Broch, (Editor),
Robotics: Science and Systems MIT Press, 2007.

Asymptotic Stability of switched higher order Laplacians and dynamic coverage
A. Muhammad and A. Jadbabaie, in Alberto Bemporad, Antonio Bicchi and Giorgio Buttazzo (Editors),
Hybrid Systems:Computation and Control Springer Lecture Notes in Compter Science, 2007.<

Vision-based Distributed Coordination and Flocking of Multi-agent Systems
N. Moshtagh, A. Jadbabaie, and K Daniilidis, in S. Thrun and G. Sukhatme, (Editors),
Robotics: Science and Systems MIT Press, 2005.

Saftey verification of hybrid systems using barrier certificates
S. Prajna and A. Jadbabaie, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004.

Flocking in teams of nonholonomic agents
H. Tanner, A. Jadbabaie and G. Pappas. in S. Morse, N. Leonard, V. Kumar (Editors),
Cooperative Control, Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science vol. 309, 2005.

Online control customization via optimization based control
R. Murray, J. Hauser, A. Jadbabaie, M. Milam, W. Dunbar, and R. Franz, in G. Balas and T. Samad, editors,
Software Enabled Control: Information Technologies for Dynamical Systems. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.

Observer-based controller synthesis for model-based fuzzy systems via linear matrix inequalities
A. Jadbabaie, C. Abdallah, M. Jamshidi, and A. Titli in S. Farinwata, D. Filev, and R. Langari, editors,
Fuzzy Control: Synthesis and Analysis, pages 239-252. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2000.



Conference Papers


Note: This list has not been updated since 2009.

Spectral analysis of virus spreading in random geometric networks.
V. Preciado and A. Jadbabaie.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.

Moment-based analysis of synchronization in small-world networks of oscillators
V. Preciado and A. Jadbabaie.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.

A distribiuted Newton method for network optimization.
A. Jadbabaie, A. Ozdaglar, and M. Zargham.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.

Multi-Vehicle Path Planning in dynamically changing environments
A. Ahmadzadeh, N Motee, A. Jadbabaie, G. Pappas. IEEE International Cofnerence on Robotics, Kobe, Japan May 2009.

Steering laws for distributed motion coordination of kinematic agents in three dimensions.
N. Moshtagh, A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.

Determining interconnections of biochemical networks via linear programing.
E. August, A. Papachristodoulou, B. Recht, M. Roberts, and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.

Distributed coverage verification in sensor networks without location information
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.

Elastic Multi-Particle Systems for Bounded-Curvature Path Planning
A. Ahmadzadeh, A. Jadbabaie, G. Pappas, and V. Kumar. American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008. .

Distributed topology control of dynamic networks
M Zavlanos, A. Tahbaz-Salehi, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J Pappas. American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008..

Small World phenomenon, rapidly mixing Markov chains, and average consensus algorithms
A. Tahbaz-Salehi and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA. December 2007.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for consensus over random independent and identically distributed switching graphs
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA. December 2007.

Optimal control of spatially distributed systems.
N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. American Control Conference, ACC 2007, NY.

On recurrence of graph connectivity in Vicsek's model of motion coordination for mobile autonomous agents.
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie. American Control Conference, ACC 2007, NY.

Distributed computation of homology groups by gossip.
A. Muhammad and A. Jadbabaie. American Control Conference, ACC 2007, NY.

On consensus in random networks.
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie. Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton House IL, 2006.

Receding horizon control of spatially distributed systems over Arbitrary Graphs.
N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

A one-parameter family of distributed consensus algorithms with boundary: from shortest paths to mean hitting times.
A. Tahbaz Salehi and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

Decentralized control of connectivity for multi-agent systems.
M. C. DeGennaro and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

Synchonization in oscillator networks with heterogeneous delays, Switching Topologies and Nonlinear Dynamics.
A. Papachristodoulou and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

Density functions for navigation function based systems.
S. Loizou and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

Multi-UAV cooperative surveillance with spatio-temporal specifications.
A. Ahmadzadeh, J. Keller, G. Pappas, A. Jadbabaie, and V. Kumar. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

Notes on averaging over acyclic digraphs and discrete coverage control.
C. Gao, F. Bullo, J. Cort'es, and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA. December 2006.

Maintaining limited-range connectivity among second-order agents.
G. Notarstefano, K. Savla, F. Bullo, and A. Jadbabaie. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, ACC 2006, Minneapolis, MN. June 2006.

Distributed receding horizon control of spatially invariant systems.
N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie. American Control Conference, ACC 2006, Minneapolis, MN. (Finalist, Best student paper award)

Formation control for a cooperative multiagent system with a decentralized navigation function.
M. C. DeGennaro and A. Jadbabaie. American Control Conference, ACC 2006, Minneapolis, MN.

Distributed geodesic control laws for flocking of nonholonomic agents.
N. Moshtagh, A. Jadbabaie, K. Daniilidis. Proceedings of ECC-CDC 2005, Seville, Spain.

Analysis of the Lactose metabolism in E. coli using sum-of-squares decomposition.
A. Ahmadzadeh, A. Halasz, S. Prajna, A. Jadbabaie, and V. Kumar. Submitted to ECC-CDC 2005, Seville, Spain.

Synchronization in Oscillator Networks: Switching topologies and presence of nonhomogeneous delays.
A. Papachristodoulou and A. Jadbabaie. Proceedings of ECC-CDC 2005, Seville, Spain.

Methods for Safety verification of time delay systems.
S. Prajna and A. Jadbabaie. Proceedings of ECC-CDC 2005, Seville, Spain.

On geographic routing without location information.
A. Jadbabaie. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, The Bahamas, 2004.

Stochastic safety verification using barrier certificates.
S. Prajna, A. Jadbabaie and G. Pappas. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, The Bahamas, 2004. (corrected version)

On the stability of the Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear oscillators
A. Jadbabaie, N. Motee, and M. Barahona. Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC 2004).(Updated, with some corrections)

Stable flocking of mobile agents, Part I: Fixed Topology
H. Tanner, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J. Pappas. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 2003.

Stable flocking of mobile agents, Part II: Dynamic Topology
H. Tanner, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J. Pappas. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 2003.

Coordination of multiple autonomous vehicles
H. Tanner, A. Jadbabaie, and G. J. Pappas. IEEE Mediterranian Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes, Greece, June 2003.

On coordination strategies for mobile agents with changing nearest neighbor sets
A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Mediterranian Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes, Greece, June 2003.

Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules
A. Jadbabaie, J. Lin, and A. S. Morse. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2002.

A globally stabilizing receding horizon controller for neutrally stable linear systems with input constraints
A. Jadbabaie, C. Depersis, and T.W. Yoon. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2002.

On the ISS property for receding horizon control of constrained linear systems
A. Jadbabaie and A.S. Morse. IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.

On the stability of unconstrained receding horizon control with a general terminal cost
A. Jadbabaie and J. Hauser. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, December 2001.

Unconstrained receding horizon control with no terminal cost
A. Jadbabaie, J. Primbs, and J. Hauser. American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, 2001.

Control of the Caltech ducted fan in forward flight: A receding horizon-LPV approach
A. Jadbabaie and J. Hauser. American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, 2001.

Aggressive maneuvering of a thrust vectored flying wing: A receding horizon approach
J. Hauser and A. Jadbabaie. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, 2000.

Relaxing the optimality condition in receding horizon control
A. Jadbabaie and John Hauser. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, 2000.

Unconstrained receding horizon control of nonlinear systems
A. Jadbabaie, J. Yu, and J. Hauser. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AZ, 1999.

Receding horizon control of the Caltech ducted fan: A control Lyapunov function approach
A. Jadbabaie, J. Yu, and J. Hauser. IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Big Islan, HI, 1999.

A reduction in conservatism in stability and L2 gain analysis of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems
A. Jadbabaie. IFAC World congress, Beijing, China, 1999.

Comparison of nonlinear control designs for a ducted fan model
J. Yu, A. Jadbabaie, J. Primbs and Y. Huang. IFAC World congress, Beijing, China, 1999.

Nonlinear H-infinity control: an enhanced quasi-LPV approach
Y. Huang and A. Jadbabaie. IFAC World congress, Beijing, China, 1999.

Stabilizing receding horizon control of nonlinear systems: A control Lyapunov function approach
A. Jadbabaie, J. Yu, and J. Hauser. American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, 1999.

Guaranteed-cost control of polynomial nonlinear systems
A. Jadbabaie, C. Abdallah, and P. Dorato. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Fl, 1998.

Guaranteed-cost control of the nonlinear benchmark problem
A. Jadbabaie, C. Abdallah, P. Dorato and M. Jamshidi. IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Trieste, Italy, 1998.

Robust, non-fragile and optimal controller synthesis via LMIs
A. Jadbabaie, C. Abdallah, and P. Dorato. American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1998.

Robust, non-fragile LQ controllers: the static state feedback case
D. Famularo, C. Abdallah, P. Dorato, W. Haddad, and A. Jadbabaie. American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1998.

Guaranteed-cost design of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy controllers via LMIs
A. Jadbabaie, M. Jamshidi, and A. Titli. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Anchorage, AK, 1998.

Fuzzy observer-based control of nonlinear systems
A. Jadbabaie, A. Titli, and M. Jamshidi. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, 1997.

A Separation Property of Observer/Controller for Continuous-Time Fuzzy Systems
A. Jadbabaie, A. Titli, and M. Jamshidi. Allerton National Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, 1997.