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Javad Velni | Mechanical Engineering

Professor

Office:   248 Fluor Daniel Building
Phone: (864) 656-0139
Fax: (864) 656-4435
Email: javadm@clemson.edu

Website

Velnilab

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2008
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, 2002
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1999

Research Interests

Learning-based control, Control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems, Connected and automated vehicles for highway and urban applications, AI-guided precision agriculture

Selected Publications

Bao, Y., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2022). Safe control of nonlinear systems in the LPV framework using model-based reinforcement learning. International Journal of Control, 1-12.

Abbas, H. S., Tóth, R., Petreczky, M., Meskin, N., Mohammadpour Velni, J., & Koelewijn, P. J. (2021). LPV modeling of nonlinear systems: A multi‐path feedback linearization approach. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 31(18), 9436-9465.

Mosharafian, S., Afzali, S., Weaver, G. M., van Iersel, M., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2021). Optimal lighting control in a greenhouse by incorporating sunlight prediction. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 188, 106300.

Guo, L., Yang, B., Ye, J., Mohammadpour Velni, J., & Song, W. (2021). Attack-resilient lateral stability control for four-wheel-driven EVs considering changed driver behavior under cyber threats. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 8(1), 1362-1375.

Moslemi, R., Mesbahi, A., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2021). A weighted graph‐based method for detection of data integrity attacks in electricity markets. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 15(16), 2298-2308.

Gidon, D., Abbas, H. S., Bonzanini, A. D., Graves, D. B., Mohammadpour Velni, J., & Mesbah, A. (2021). Data-driven LPV model predictive control of a cold atmospheric plasma jet for biomaterials processing. Control Engineering Practice, 109, 104725.

Faryadi, S., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2021). A reinforcement learning‐based approach for modeling and coverage of an unknown field using a team of autonomous ground vehicles. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36(2), 1069-1084.

Davoodi, M., Faryadi, S., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2021). A graph-theoretic-based approach for deploying heterogeneous multi-agent systems with application in precision agriculture. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 101(1), 1-15.

Bao, Y., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2020). Data-driven linear parameter-varying model identification using transfer learning. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5(5), 1579-1584.

Davoodi, M., & Mohammadpour Velni, J. (2020). Heterogeneity-aware graph partitioning for distributed deployment of multiagent systems. IEEE transactions on cybernetics.

Bao, Y., Mohammadpour Velni, J., & Shahbakhti, M. (2020). Epistemic uncertainty quantification in state-space LPV model identification using Bayesian neural networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5(2), 719-724.

Javad Velni