Research and Group

Resarch Theme: Resilience of Networked Control Systems

A Networked Control System (NCS) is a control system wherein the control loops are closed through a communication network. The defining feature of an NCS is that control and feedback signals are exchanged among the system's components in the form of information packages through a network. One of the emerging notions in designing NCSs is building the interdependencies between components in the network to ensure the safety, security, and resilience of the designed system to unexpected events, such as faults, failures, communication disturbances, delays, and even attacks. In this direction, my research primarily concerns the analysis of the robustness and resilience of network control systems to such events.

Interdependent Networks (Photo credit to Yurchanka Siarhei @ Shutterstock)

Research Group:

Borna Monazzah Moghaddam (postdoc), Research area: Adversarial threats on mobile manipulator agents
Nathaniel Mailhot (postdoc), Research area: Data-driven detection of critical transitions in multi-agent systems
Ailin Barzegar (postdoc), Research area: Attack diagnosis in multi-agent systems
Ali Karbasi (Ph.D. student), Research area: Resilient control of traffic systems
Marwah Al Adhami (Ph.D. student), Research area: Resilient decision making in autonomous vehicles
Ruiming Zheng (Ph.D. student), Research area: secure distributed estimation and control for network coverage
Mohammadreza Ghorbani (Ph.D. candidate), Thesis title: Reliability of Vehicle Estimation Pathways, University of Waterloo.
Farid Mafi Shourestani (Ph.D. candidate), Thesis title: Efficient Multi-Model Vehicle Control, University of Waterloo.
Alireza Esfandbod (Ph.D. candidate), Thesis title: Agent-Based Model Predictive Vehicle Control, University of Waterloo.
Kwaku Richter (MASc student), Research area: Experiments in decentralized multi-agent system
Jatin Kumar (MASc student), Research area: Data-driven estimation of wind speed
Grant Colwell (BSc student), Research area: Controllability of vehicle platoons

Former members and visitors:

Ghadeer Shaaban (Visiting Ph.D.), Project title: Security analysis of vehicle control systems, visiting from the University of Grenoble, Alpes, France.
Keqi (Clement) Wu (Research intern), Project: Intracellular Network Communication Analysis Among Beta Cells of the Pancreas, University of Waterloo.
Elia Furlanis (MASc student), A non-cooperative game framework for active learning of human driver's attention level with application to autonomous driving, KTH Royal Institute of Technology 2019. Currently Autonomous Driving Engineering Specialist at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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