Contact Information

• Name: Mehdi Alighanbari
• Office: 41-105
• Phone: 617-253-5743
• Email: mehdi_a@mit.edu

Education

• PhD. Candidate, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• MSc., Operations Research, Sloan School of Management
• MSc., Aeroanutics and Astronautics, MIT
• MSc., Electrical Engineering (controls), NC A&T State University
• BSc., Electrical Engineering (controls), Sharif University of Technology

Research Interests

• Task Assignment for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Decentralized planning
• Robust algorithms for Task Assignment problems
• Consensus algorithms for network of agents
• Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)

Selected Publications

1. ``Robust Decentralized Task Assignment for Cooperative UAVs'' Submitted to the 2006 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference.
2. ``An Unbiased Kalman Consensus Algorithm'' to appear in the IEEE American Control Conference, June 2006.
3. ``Decentralized Task Assignment for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles'' to appear at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Dec 2005.
4. ``Cooperative Task Assignment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Adversarial Environments'' Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, June 2005, pp. 4661-4667.
5. ``Filter-Embedded UAV Task Assignment Algorithms For Dynamic Environments'' Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Aug 2004.
6. ``Coordination and Control of Multiple UAVs with Timing Constraints and Loitering'' Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, June 2003, pp. 5311-5316.

Other links

• My "Under construction" personal webpage