Prof. MARWAN A. SIMAAN
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54Years (1973-Present)
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Representative Publications
View All Publications1 May 1973 in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Journal Article
MARWAN A. SIMAANJCJ. B. Cruz
J. B. Cruz
1 June 1973 in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Journal Article
MARWAN A. SIMAANJCJ. B. Cruz
J. B. Cruz
12 January 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
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This technical note proposes a resilient cooperative control design for networked cooperative systems when subjected to external attacks. The systems considered in this paper can have any information topology described by a leader-follower digraph. A potential attack on such systems consists of unknown bounded signals generated from any linear or nonlinear finite-L2-gain exogenous dynamical system and injected distributively into nodes of the system's network. The purpose of the attack is to destabilize the consensus dynamics by intercepting the system's communication network and corrupting its local state feedback. The proposed resilient control design consists of introducing a virtual system with hidden network such that the overall system consisting of the original consensus system, the virtual system, and the attack dynamics is stable without requiring any information about the locations or nature of the attack. This is accomplished by utilizing the concept of competitive interaction to provide explicit design criteria for the hidden network of the virtual system to interact with the original system. A graph theoretical approach and a Lyapunov direct method are used to analyze
23 February 2017 in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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The increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) on highways calls for the installment of adequate charging infrastructure. Since charging infrastructure has limited capacity, EVs need to wait at a charging station to get charged, and their waiting times may differ significantly from one location to another. This paper aims at developing a strategy to coordinate the queues among the charging stations, with only local information about traffic flows and the status of EV charging stations along a bidirectional highway, so that excessively long waiting times can be avoided. Specifically, a distributed algorithm is presented to schedule EV flows into neighboring charging stations, so that EVs are all appropriately served along the highway and that all the charging resources are uniformly utilized. In addition, a distributed decision making policy is developed to influence the aggregate number of EVs entering any given service station, so that each EV makes an appropriate decision (i.e., whether or not it should enter the next charging station) by contributing positively to meeting the desired queue length at service stations and by considering its own battery constraint. Performance improvement of the proposed strategy is illustrated via one of the highways in the United States, namely the Florida Turnpike.
22 June 2015 in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
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A linear-quadratic N-pursuer single-evader differential game is considered. The evader can observe all the pursuers but pursuers have limited observations of themselves and the evader. The evader implements the conventional feedback Nash strategy and the pursuers implement Nash strategies based on a novel concept of best achievable performance indices. This problem has potential applications in situations where a well-equipped unmanned vehicle is evading several weakly equipped pursuing vehicles. An illustrative example is solved, and several scenarios are presented.
About Me
MARWAN A. SIMAAN received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana–
Champaign, in 1972. He was the Bell of PA/Bell
Atlantic Professor and the Former Chair of the
Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Pittsburgh, which he joined in 1976.
He joined the University of Central Florida,
in 2008, where he is currently the Florida 21st
Century Chair and the Distinguished Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests
include control systems, game theory, economics, optimization, and signal processing. Simaan is well known for his two classic papers with J. B. Cruz, Jr., published in JOTA in 1973 that were the first to introduce the concept of Stackelberg Leader-Follower strategies in dynamic games. These papers were the foundation of the Time Inconsistency theory in dynamic games that had considerable influence on Behavioral Economics in the 1980s and 90s. His 1978 paper with T. Takayama published in Automatica was the first to formulate and solve the duopoly problem as a differential game. In these areas Simaan published 150 journal papers and 230 conference publications.
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a
Life Fellow of IEEE and ASEE; and a fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and NAI. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with the Commonwealth