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Mazen Farhood

Dr. Mazen Farhood
Dr. Mazen Farhood
Office Location:
Virginia Tech Swing Space, Room 224G
1600 Innovation Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Professor
Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Education

Ph.D., 2005, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., 2001, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.Engr., 1999, Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
 

Selected Honors

2014 NSF CAREER Grant Recipient
 

Selected Papers

O. Arifianto and M. Farhood, "Optimal control of a small fixed-wing UAV about concatenated trajectories," Control Engineering Practice, Volume 40, Pages 113-132, July 2015.

M. Farhood, Z. Di, and G.E. Dullerud, "Distributed control of linear time-varying systems interconnected over arbitrary graphs," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 179-206, January 2015.

M. Farhood and E. Feron, "Obstacle-sensitive trajectory regulation via gain scheduling and semidefinite programming," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 1107-1115, July 2012.
 

Selected Projects

Provably Correct Control Software for Autonomous High-Performance Agents, NSF

Systematic Control Algorithms and Computational Tools for Complex Distributed Systems, NSF

A Robust Framework for Reliability Analysis of UAV Control Systems, NAVAIR