Publications

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Journal Papers

1. K. Shu, A. Alghooneh, M. Ning, S. Li, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, "Game-theory in Practice: Application to Motion Planning and Decision Making in an Autonomous Shuttle Bus", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, to appear.

2. A. Hosseinzadeh, R.V. Mehrizi, M. Pirani, S. Chenouri, A. Khajepour, "ReSeleCT: A New Approach for Continual Learning with Application to Vehicle State Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, to appear.

3. J. Zhong, R. V. Mehrizi, M. Pirani, C. Yu, A. Kasaiezadeh, Y. V. Pant, A. Khajepour, "Learning Agent-based Model Predictive Control for Holistic Vehicle Performance", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, to appear, [IEEE Xplore]

4. M. Zabihi, R. V. Mehrizi, A. Kasaiezadeh, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, "A Hybrid Model-Data Vehicle Sensor and Actuator Fault Detection and Diagnosis System", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, to appear, [IEEE Xplore]

5. A. Gharamohammadi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, G. Shaker,  "Multi-Bin Breathing Pattern Estimation by Radar Fusion for Enhanced Driver Monitoring", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, to appear. [IEEE Xplore]

6. C. Sun, Y. Cui, N. Dào, R. V. Mehrizi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, "Medium-fidelity Evaluation and Modeling for Perception Systems of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 9, pp. 1711-1721, 2024. [IEEE Xplore]

7. M. Pirani, A. Mitra, and S. Sundaram, "Graph-Theoretic Approaches for Analyzing the Resilience of Distributed Control Systems: A Tutorial and Survey", Automatica, vol. 157, pp. 111254, 2023. [ScienceDirect]

8. M. Pirani and S. Jafarpour, "Network Critical Slowing Down: Data-Driven Detection of Critical Transitions in Nonlinear Networks", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 11, pp. 573-585 , 2024. [IEEE Xplore]

9. K. Shu, R. V. Mehrizi, S. Li, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, "Human Inspired Autonomous Intersection Handling Using Game Theory", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no 10, pp. 11360-11371, 2023, [IEEE Xplore]

10. M. Pirani, M. Hosseinzadeh, J. Taylor, and B. Sinopoli, "Optimal Active Fault Detection in Inverter-Based Grids", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 31, pp. 1411-1417, 2023. [IEEE Xplore]

11. M. Safi, S. M. Dibaji, and M. Pirani, "Resilient Coordinated Movement of Connected Autonomous Vehicles", European Journal of Control,  vol. 64, pp. 1598-1603, 2022. [ScienceDirect]

12. M. Pirani, S. Baldi, and K. H. Johansson, "Impact of Network Topology on the Resilience of Vehicle Platoons", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, pp. 15166-15177, 2022. [IEEE Xplore]

13. M. Doostmohammadian, U. A. Khan, M. Pirani, and  T. Charalambous, "Consensus-Based Distributed Estimation in the Presence of Heterogeneous, Time-Invariant Delays",  IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1598-1603, 2022. [IEEE Xplore]

14. E. Nekouei, M. Pirani, H. Sandberg, and K. H. Johansson, "A Randomized Filtering Strategy Against Inference Attacks on Active Steering Control Systems", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 16-27, 2022. [IEEE Xplore] 

15. M. Pirani, E. Nekouei, H. Sandberg and K. H. Johansson, "A Game-theoretic Framework for Security-aware Sensor Placement Problem in Networked Control Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 3699-3706, Jul. 2022. [IEEE Xplore]. 

16. M. H. Basiri, M. Pirani, N. L. Azad, and S. Fischmeister, "Security-Aware Optimal Actuator Placement in Vehicle Platooning", Asian Journal of Control, In press, 2021. [Wiley Online].

17. M. Pirani, J. A. Taylor, and B. Sinopoli,  "Strategic Sensor Placement on Graphs", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 148, pp. 104855,  2021. [Elsevier].

18. M. Pirani, E. Nekouei, H. Sandberg, and K. H. Johansson, "A Graph-Theoretic Equilibrium Analysis of Attacker-Defender Game on Consensus Dynamics Under H_2 Performance Metric", IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1991-2000, Sep. 2021. [IEEE Xplore].

19. M. Pirani and J. A. Taylor, " Controllability of AC Power Networks with DC Lines", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, pp. 1649-1651,  2020. [IEEE Xplore].

20. M. H. Basiri, M. Pirani, N. L. Azad, and S. Fischmeister, "Security of Vehicle Platooning: A Game-Theoretic Approach", IEEE Access, vol. 7, Dec. 2019. [IEEE Xplore].

21. S. M. Dibaji, M. Pirani, D. B. Flamholz, A. M. Annaswamy, K. H. Johansson, A. Chakrabortty,  "A Systems and Control Perspective of CPS Security ", Annual Reviews in Control , vol. 47, pp. 394-411,  2019. 

22. M. Pirani, H. Sandberg and K. H. Johansson, "A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the H∞ Performance of Leader-Follower Consensus on Directed Networks", IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 954-959, Oct. 2019. [IEEE Xplore].

23. M. Jalalmaab,  M. Pirani, B.  Fidan, S. Jeon, "Cooperative Estimation of Road Condition Based on Dynamic Consensus and Vehicular Communication",  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 90-100,  2019. [IEEE Xplore]

24. E. Hashemi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, B. Fidan, S. K. Shen, B. Litkouhi, "Fault Tolerant Consensus for Vehicle State Estimation: A Cyber-physical Approach", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics,  vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 5129-5138 ,  2019. . [IEEE Xplore]

25. M. Pirani, E. Hashemi, A. Khajepour, B. Fidan, B. Litkouhi, S. K. Chen, S. Sundaram, "Cooperative Vehicle Speed Fault Diagnosis and Correction", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 783 - 789, Feb. 2019. [IEEE Xplore]

26. M. Pirani, E.M. Shahrivar, B. Fidan and S. Sundaram, "Robustness of Leader - Follower Networked Dynamical Systems", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1752 - 1763, Dec. 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

27. E. Hashemi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, B. Fidan, A. Kasaiezadeh, S. Chen, "Opinion Dynamics Based Vehicle Velocity Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 2142 - 2148, July. 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

28. E. M. Shahrivar, M. Pirani and S. Sundaram, "Spectral and Structural Properties of Random Interdependent Networks", Automatica, vol. 83,  pp. 234 - 242, 2017. 

29. M. Pirani, E. Hashemi,  A. Khajepour, B. Fidan, A. Kasaiezadeh, S. Chen, B. Litkouhi, "Resilient Corner-Based Vehicle Velocity Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 452 - 462, Feb. 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

30. M. Pirani, E. Hashemi, J. W. Simpson-Porco, B. Fidan and A. Khajepour, "A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the Robustness of k-Nearest Neighbor Vehicle Platoons", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 3218-3224, Oct. 2017. [IEEE Xplore]

31. E. Hashemi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, A. Kasaiezadeh, S. Chen, B. Litkouhi, "Corner-Based Estimation of Tire Forces and Vehicle Velocities Robust to Road Conditions", Control Engineering Practice, vol. 61, pp. 28-40, 2017. 

32. E. Hashemi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour and  A. Kasaiezadeh, "A Comprehensive Study on the Stability Analysis of Vehicle Dynamics with Pure/Combined Slip Tire Models", Vehicle System Dynamics, vol. 54, Issue. 12, pp. 1736 - 1761, 2016. 

33. M. Pirani and S. Sundaram, "On the Smallest Eigenvalue of Grounded Laplacian Matrices", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 509 - 514, Feb. 2016. [IEEE Xplore]

Conference Papers

1. M. Pirani, M. Hosseinzadeh, J. Taylor, and B. Sinopoli, "Optimal Active Fault Detection in Inverter-Based Grids", 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2023.

2. M. Doostmohammadian, M. Pirani, U. A. Khan, "Consensus-based Networked Tracking in Presence of Heterogeneous Time-Delays", International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), pp. 17-22, 2022.

3. M. Doostmohammadian, A. Aghasi, M. Pirani, E. Nekouei, U. A. Khan, T. Charalambous, "Fast-Convergent Anytime-Feasible Dynamics for Distributed Allocation of Resources Over Switching Sparse Networks with Quantized Communication Links",  Proceedings of ECC 2022, European Control Conference, pp. 84-89, 2022.

4. M. Pirani, Y. She, R. Tang, Z.Jiang, Y. V. Pant, "Stable Interaction of Autonomous Vehicle Platoons with Human-Driven Vehicles", Proceedings of ACC 2022, American Control Conference, pp. 633-640, 2022.

5. M. Doostmohammadian, U. A. Khan, M. Pirani, and  T. Charalambous, "Consensus-Based Distributed Estimation in the Presence of Heterogeneous, Time-Invariant Delays",  Proceedings of ACC 2022, American Control Conference, pp. 1598-1606, 2022..

6. M. Pirani, J. A. Taylor and B. Sinopoli, "Attack Resilient Interconnected Second Order Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach", Proceedings of CDC 2019, the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019.

7. M. Pirani, H. Sandberg and K. H. Johansson, "A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the H∞ Performance of Leader-Follower Consensus on Directed Networks", Proceedings of CDC 2019, the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019.

8. M. Pirani, E. Nekouei, H. Sandberg and K. H. Johansson, "A Game-theoretic Framework for Security-aware Sensor Placement Problem in Networked Control Systems", American Control Conference (ACC), 2019. 

9. M. Pirani, E. Nekouei,  S. M. Dibaji, H. Sandberg and K. H. Johansson, "Design of attack-resilient consensus dynamics: A game-theoretic approach ", European Control Conference (ECC),  2019. 

10. S. M.  Dibaji,  M.  Pirani,  A. Annaswamy, K. H. Johansson, and A. Chakrabortty , "Resilient Control of Wide-Area Power Systems: Confidentiality and Integrity Threats " , Proceedings of CDC 2018, the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, FL, 2018.

11. M.  Jafarian, X.  Yi, M.  Pirani, H. Sandberg, K. H. Johansson, "Synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators in a frequency-dependent tree network", Proceedings of CDC 2018, the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, FL, 2018.

12. M. Pirani, E. Hashemi, A. Khajepour, B. Fidan, J. W. Simpson-Porco, Henrik Sandberg and K. H. Johansson, "Resilient Estimation and Control on k-Nearest Neighbor Platoons: A Network-Theoretic Approach", IFAC Conference on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, 2018.

13. M. Pirani, J. W. Simpson-Porco, and B. Fidan, "System-Theoretic Performance Metrics for Low-Inertia Stability of Power Networks", Proceedings of CDC 2017, the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

14. E. Hashemi, M. Pirani, B. Fidan, A. Khajepour, A. Kasaiezadeh, S. Chen, "Distributed Robust Vehicle State Estimation", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 2017.

15. M. Pirani, E. Hashemi, B. Fidan, and J. W. Simpson-Porco. "H∞Performance of Mechanical and Power Networks", IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017. 

16. E. Hashemi, M. Pirani, A. Khajepour, B. Fidan, A. Kasaiezadeh, S. Chen, B. Litkouhi, "Integrated Estimation Structure for the Tire Friction Forces in Ground Vehicles", Proceedings of AIM 2016, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Banff, Canada, 2016. 

17. M. Jalalmaab, M. Pirani, B. Fidan and S. Jeon, "Cooperative Road Condition Estimation for an Adaptive Model Predictive Collision Avoidance Control Strategy", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016.

18. M. Jalalmaab, M. Pirani, B. Fidan and S. Jeon, "Cooperative Least Square Parameter Identification by Consensus within the Network of Autonomous Vehicles", Society of Automotive Engineering  World Congress and Exhibition, Detroit, MI, 2016.

19. M. Pirani, E. M. Shahrivar and S. Sundaram, "Coherence and Convergence Rate in Networked Dynamical Systems.", Proceedings of CDC 2015, the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015.

20. E. M. Shahrivar, M. Pirani and S. Sundaram, "Robustness and Algebraic Connectivity of Random Interdependent Networks.", Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.

21. M. Pirani, T. Costa and S. Sundaram, "Stability of Dynamical Systems on a Graph", Proceedings of CDC 2014, the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, 2014.

22. M. Pirani and S. Sundaram, "Spectral Properties of the Grounded Laplacian Matrix with Applications to Consensus in the Presence of Stubborn Agents", Proceedings of ACC 2014, the 33rd American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2014. 

Ph.D. Thesis: 

Reliable Vehicle State and parameter estimation

MASc Thesis: 

On Spectral Properties of the Grounded Laplacian Matrix

BSc Thesis: 

Study of Swarm Behavior in Modeling and Simulation of Cluster Formation in Nanofluids