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most citedA novel hypothesis for how albatrosses optimize their flight physics in real-time: an extremum seeking model and control for dynamic soaring

16 citations · 25 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

LoWAgent: A Low-Resource Multilingual Benchmark for Web Agents

Ocean Monjur, Daud Ahmad Nisar, Shahriar Kabir Nahin +4

Web agents are typically evaluated on English-language interfaces, leaving their ability to operate across the world's multilingual websites largely unexplored. This gap is especia…

math.DS2025

Observability and State Estimation for Smooth and Nonsmooth Differential Algebraic Equation Systems

Hesham Abdelfattah, Sameh A. Eisa, Peter Stechlinski

In this work, we extend the sensitivity-based rank condition (SERC) test for local observability to another class of systems, namely smooth and nonsmooth differential-algebraic equ…

math.OC2025

Extremum Seeking with High-Order Lie Bracket Approximations: Achieving Exponential Decay Rate

Victoria Grushkovskaya, Sameh A. Eisa

This paper focuses on the further development of the Lie bracket approximation approach for extremum seeking systems. Classical results in this area provide extremum seeking algori…

math.OC2024

A New Nonsmooth Optimal Control Framework for Wind Turbine Power Systems

Hesham Abdelfattah, Sameh A. Eisa, Peter Stechlinski

Optimal control theory extending from the calculus of variations has not been used to study the wind turbine power system (WTPS) control problem, which aims at achieving two target…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

Identifiability and Observability of Nonsmooth Systems via Taylor-like Approximations

Peter Stechlinski, Sameh Eisa, Hesham Abdelfattah

New sensitivity-based methods are developed for determining identifiability and observability of nonsmooth input-output systems. More specifically, lexicographic calculus is used t…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

Model-Free Source Seeking by a Novel Single-Integrator with Attenuating Oscillations and Better Convergence Rate: Robotic Experiments

Shivam Bajpai, Ahmed A. Elgohary, Sameh A. Eisa

In this paper we validate, including experimentally, the effectiveness of a recent theoretical developments made by our group on control-affine Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) syste…

math.OC2023★ 4 cited

Higher-order Lie bracket approximation and averaging of control-affine systems with application to extremum seeking

Sameer Pokhrel, Sameh A. Eisa

This paper provides a rigorous derivation for what is known in the literature as the Lie bracket approximation of control-affine systems in a more general and sequential framework…

math.OC2022

Analyzing and Mimicking the Optimized Flight Physics of Soaring Birds: A Differential Geometric Control and Extremum Seeking System Approach with Real Time Implementation

Sameh A. Eisa, Sameer Pokhrel

For centuries, soaring birds -- such as albatrosses and eagles -- have been mysterious and intriguing for biologists, physicists, aeronautical/control engineers, and applied mathem…

math.OC2022★ 16 cited

A novel hypothesis for how albatrosses optimize their flight physics in real-time: an extremum seeking model and control for dynamic soaring

Sameer Pokhrel, Sameh A. Eisa

The albatross optimized flight maneuver -- known as dynamic soaring -- is nothing but a wonder of biology, physics, and engineering. By utilizing dynamic soaring, the bird can trav…

math.OC2021

Control-Affine Extremum Seeking Control with Attenuating Oscillations: A Lie Bracket Estimation Approach

Sameer Pokhrel, Sameh A. Eisa

Control-affine Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) systems have been increasingly studied and applied in the last decade. In a recent effort, many control-affine ESC structures have bee…