Areas of expertise

• Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics 4007
• Calculus Of Variations, Mathematical Aspects Of Systems Theory And Control Theory 490103
• Numerical And Computational Mathematics 4903
• Cyberphysical Systems And Internet Of Things 460603
• Artificial Intelligence 4602

Publications

• Shames, I, Anderson, B, Fidan, B et al 2011, 'Polynomial-Based Methods for Localization in Multiagent Systems', in Reza Zekavat, R. Michael Beuhrer (ed.), Handbook of Position Location: Theory, Practice and Advances, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, USA, pp. 813-835.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B, Anderson, B et al 2011, 'Cooperative self-localization of mobile agents', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 1926-1947.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B, Anderson, B et al 2011, 'Self-localization of formations of autonomous agents using bearing measurements', in Reza Zekavat, R. Michael Beuhrer (ed.), Handbook of Position Location: Theory, Practice and Advances, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, USA, pp. 899-920.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B, Anderson, B et al 2011, 'Polynomial based methods for cooperative localization in multiagent systems', in Reza Zekavat, R. Michael Beuhrer (ed.), Handbook of Position Location: Theory, Practice and Advances, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, USA, pp. 813-835.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B & Anderson, B 2011, 'Close target reconnaissance with guaranteed collision avoidance', International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 21, no. 16, pp. 1823-1840.
• Anderson, B, Shames, I, Mao, G et al 2010, 'Formal theory of noisy sensor network localization', SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 684-698.
• Shames, I & Bishop, A 2010, 'Relative Clock Synchronization in Wireless Networks', IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 348-350.
• Deghat, M, Shames, I, Anderson, B et al. 2010, 'Target Localization and Circumnavigation Using Bearing Measurements in 2D', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2010, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 334-339.
• Shames, I, Teixeira, A, Sandberg, H et al. 2010, 'Distributed Leader Selection without Direct Inter-agent Communication', 2nd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, NecSys'10, Conference Organising Committee, Annecy, pp. 221-226.
• Shames, I, Dasgupta, S, Fidan, B et al 2009, 'Circumnavigation using distance measurements', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 2444-2449.
• Soukieh, R, Shames, I & Fidan, B 2009, 'Obstacle avoidance of non-holonomic unicycle robots based on fluid mechanical modeling', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 3269-3274.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B & Soukieh, R 2009, 'Obstacle avoidance of robotic formations based on fluid mechanical modeling', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 3263-3268.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B & Anderson, B 2008, 'Close target reconnaissance using autonomous UAV formations', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2008, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), US, pp. 1729-1734.
• Piovan, G, Shames, I, Fidan, B et al 2008, 'On frame and orientation localization for relative sensing networks', IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2008, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), US, pp. 2326-2331.
• Shames, I, Dasgupta, S, Fidan, B et al 2009, 'Circumnavigation Using Distant Measurements', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 2444-2449.
• Shames, I, Anderson, B & Fidan, B 2009, 'On the Use of Convex Optimization in Sensor Network Localization and Synchronization', International Federation of Automatic Control Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Elsevier, UK, pp. 228-233.
• Soukieh, R, Shames, I & Fidan, B 2009, 'Obstacle Avoidance of Robotic Formations Based on Fluid Mechanical Modeling', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 3263-3268.
• Soukieh, R, Shames, I & Fidan, B 2009, 'Obstacle Avoidance of Non-holonomic Unicycle Robots Based on Fluid Mechanical Modeling', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 3269-3274.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B & Anderson, B 2009, 'Minimization of the effect of noisy measurements on localization of multi-agent autonomous formations', Automatica, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 1058-1065.
• Shames, I, Anderson, B, Wang, X et al 2009, 'Network Synchronizability Enhancement Using Convex Optimization', European Control Conference (ECC 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, IEEE Xplore, Budapest Hungary, pp. 2067-2072.
• Shames, I, Taghipour Bibalan, P, Fidan, B et al 2009, 'Polynomial Methods in Noisy Network Localization', Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation 2009, ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 1307-1312.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B, Anderson, B et al 2008, 'Self-localization of Mobile Agents in the Plane', International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2008), ed. Conference Program Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Santorini Greece, pp. 116-120.
• Shames, I, Fidan, B & Anderson, B 2008, 'Reduction of Self-localization Errors in Mutli-Agent Autonomous Formations', International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (SYSID 2008), ed. Conference Program Committee, Elsevier, Korea, pp. 6578-6583.

Projects and Grants

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• Design of Real-time Optimisation Methods with Guaranteed Performance (Primary Investigator)
• Dynamic task assignment and tactic selection for multi-player games (Aquaticus Competition) (Primary Investigator)
• Hierarchical Verification of Autonomy Architectures (Primary Investigator)

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