3 papers
cs.RO2026
First Experimental Demonstration of Natural Hovering Extremum Seeking: A New Paradigm in Flapping Flight Physics
Ahmed A. Elgohary, Rohan Palanikumar, Simone Martini +1
In this letter, we report the first experimental demonstration of the recently emerged new paradigm in hovering and flapping flight physics called (Natural Hovering Extremum Seekin…
math.OC2026
Model-Free Optimization and Control of Rigid Body Dynamics: An Extremum Seeking for Vibrational Stabilization Approach
Rohan Palanikumar, Ahmed A. Elgohary, Simone Martini +1
In this paper, we introduce a model-free, real-time, dynamic optimization and control method for a class of rigid body dynamics. Our method is based on a recent extremum seeking co…
math.OC2026
Model-free source seeking of exponentially convergent unicycle: theoretical and robotic experimental results
Rohan Palanikumar, Ahmed A. Elgohary, Victoria Grushkovskaya +1
This paper introduces a novel model-free, real-time unicycle-based source seeking design. This design autonomously steers the unicycle dynamic system towards the extremum point of…