Publications

2025

Reports

Data-driven LPV Disturbance Rejection Control with IQC-based Stability Guarantees for Rate-bounded Scheduling Parameter Variations

E. Klauser; A. Karimi 

2025

2024

Journal Articles

Data-driven fixed-structure frequency-based H2 and H∞ controller design

P. L. Schuchert; V. Gupta; A. Karimi 

Automatica. 2024. Vol. 160. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111398.

Conference Papers

Data-Driven Output Feedback Control Based on Behavioral Approach

Z. Qin; A. Karimi 

2024. American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024-07-10 – 2024-07-12. p. 3954 – 3959. DOI : 10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644622.

Data-Driven Control Synthesis using Koopman Operator: A Robust Approach

M. Eyuboglu; N. R. Powell; A. Karimi 

2024. American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024-07-10 – 2024-07-12. DOI : 10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644426.

Data-driven frequency-based feedforward control design for a robotic arm joint

P. L. Schuchert; A. Karimi 

2024. American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024-07-10 – 2024-07-12. p. 3853 – 3858. DOI : 10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644602.

Achieving robustness against uncertain time delays using non-parametric IQCs

V. Gupta; A. Karimi 

2024. 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, 2024-12-16 – 2024-12-19.

Theses

Frequency domain data-driven robust and optimal control

P. L. Schuchert / A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Data-Driven Methods for Controller Design in Atomic Force Microscopy

N. Asmari Saadabad / G. Fantner; A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Working Papers

Robust Data-Driven Controller Design with Finite Frequency Samples

P. L. Schuchert; A. Karimi 

2024

Data-driven LPV Control for Micro-disturbance Rejection in a Hybrid Isolation Platform

E. Klauser; A. Karimi 

2024

Koopman-based Data-driven Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Integral Quadratic Constraints

M. Eyuboglu; A. Karimi 

2024

Non-parametric IQC Multipliers in Data-Driven Robust Controller Synthesis

V. Gupta; E. S. Klauser; A. Karimi 

2024

2023

Journal Articles

Frequency-domain data-driven position-dependent controller synthesis for Cartesian Robots

P. L. Schuchert; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2023. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2023.3257487.

Achieving Optimal Performance With Data-Driven Frequency-Based Control Synthesis Methods

P. L. Schuchert; A. Karimi 

IEEE Control Systems Letters. 2023. Vol. 7, p. 3567 – 3572. DOI : 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3337592.

Data-Driven Robust Passivity-Based Controller Design for Grid-Connected Converters

A. Karimi; S. S. Madani 

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2023.  p. 1 – 11. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2023.3308056.

Conference Papers

Frequency domain LPV controller synthesis for a positioning system with uncertain scheduling parameters

P. L. Schuchert; A. Karimi 

2023. 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC World Congress 2023), Yokohama, Japan, July 09-14, 2023. p. 1363 – 1369. DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1788.

Data-driven IQC-Based Uncertainty Modelling for Robust Control Design

V. Gupta; E. S. Klauser; A. Karimi 

2023. IFAC World Congress 2023, Yokohama, Japan, 2023-07-09 – 2023-07-14. p. 4789 – 4795. DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1244.

Data-driven IQC-Based Robust Control Design for Hybrid Micro-disturbance Isolation Platform

V. Gupta; E. Klauser; A. Karimi 

2023. 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2023, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 2023-12-13 – 2023-12-15. DOI : 10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10384121.

Direct Data-Driven Vibration Control for Adaptive Optics

V. Gupta; A. Karimi; F. Wilde; J-P. Véran 

2023. 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, Dec. 13-15, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383356.

2022

Journal Articles

Closed-loop data-driven modeling and distributed control for islanded microgrids with input constraints

D-D. Zheng; S. S. Madani; A. Karimi 

Control Engineering Practice. 2022. Vol. 126, p. 105251. DOI : 10.1016/j.conengprac.2022.105251.

Data-driven distributed online learning control for islanded microgrids

D-D. Zheng; S. S. Madani; A. Karimi 

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 2022.  p. 1 – 11. DOI : 10.1109/JETCAS.2022.3152938.

Stabilization and Performance Improvement of Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Using a Robust Data-Driven Method

S. S. Madani; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 2022. Vol. 71, p. 3000211. DOI : 10.1109/TIM.2022.3150593.

Conference Papers

Data-Driven Control and Its Applications to Microgrids

A. Karimi; B. Bahrani; D. Zheng; S. S. Madani 

2022. IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Trieste, Italy, August 23-25, 2022. p. 1 – 18. DOI : 10.1109/CCTA49430.2022.9966006.

A convex set of robust D—stabilizing controllers using Cauchy’s argument principle

P. L. Schuchert; A. Karimi 

2022. 10th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND 2022), Online (Kyoto, Japan), 30 Aug–2 Sep, 2022. p. 49 – 54. DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.322.

Data-Driven Feedforward Hysteresis Compensation with Genetic Algorithm for Atomic Force Microscope

N. Asmari; M. Kangul; S. H. Andany; A. Karimi; G. E. Fantner 

2022. 5th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), Toronto, CANADA, Jul 25-29, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870479.

Theses

Data-driven Power Electronic Converter Control Design in Power System Applications

S. S. Madani / A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

2021

Journal Articles

Nonlinear Transient Stability Analysis of Phased-Locked Loop Based Grid-Following Voltage Source Converters Using Lyapunov’s Direct Method

M. Z. Mansour; S. P. Me; S. Hadavi; B. Badrazadeh; A. Karimi et al. 

IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. 2021.  p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/JESTPE.2021.3057639.

Data-Driven Distributed Combined Primary and Secondary Control in Microgrids

S. S. Madani; C. M. Kammer; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2021. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 1340 – 1347. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2019.2958285.

Conference Papers

Data-Driven LPV Controller Design for Islanded Microgrids

S. S. Madani; A. Karimi 

2021. 19th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID), Padova, ITALY, Jul 13-16, 2021. p. 433 – 438. DOI : 10.1016/j.ifaco1.2021.08.398.

2020

Journal Articles

Grid-Supporting Battery Energy Storage Systems in Islanded Microgrids: A Data-Driven Control Approach

D. J. Ryan; R. Razzaghi; H. D. Torresan; A. Karimi; B. Bahrani 

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. 2020.  p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/TSTE.2020.3022362.

Conference Papers

Data-Driven Passivity-Based Current Controller Design for Power-Electronic Converters of Traction Systems

S. S. Madani; A. Karimi 

2020. 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Jeju Island, Korea (South), December 14-18, 2020. p. 842 – 847. DOI : 10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303886.

Data-driven distributed frequency/voltage and power sharing control for islanded microgrids

D. Zheng; A. Karimi 

2020. 2020 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Montreal, QC, Canada, August 24-26, 2020. p. 1066 – 1071. DOI : 10.1109/CCTA41146.2020.9206255.

Data-Driven Distributed Reactive Power Sharing in Microgrids

S. S. Madani; A. Karimi 

2020. 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Nice, France, 11-13 Decembre, 2019. p. 7512 – 7517. DOI : 10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029506.

Working Papers

Data-driven distributed frequency/voltage and power sharing control for islanded microgrids

D. Zheng; A. Karimi 

2020

2019

Journal Articles

Convex Optimization-Based Control Design for Parallel Grid-Connected Inverters

C. Kammer; S. D’Arco; A. G. Endegnanew; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 2019. Vol. 34, num. 7, p. 6048 – 6061. DOI : 10.1109/TPEL.2018.2881196.

Robust control of systems with sector nonlinearities via convex optimization: A data-driven approach

A. Nicoletti; A. Karimi 

International Journal Of Robust And Nonlinear Control. 2019. Vol. 29, num. 5, p. 1361 – 1376. DOI : 10.1002/rnc.4439.

A Robust Data-Driven Controller Design Methodology With Applications to Particle Accelerator Power Converters

A. Nicoletti; M. Martino; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2019. Vol. 27, num. 2, p. 814 – 821. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2017.2783346.

A data-driven approach to model-reference control with applications to particle accelerator power converters

A. Nicoletti; M. Martino; A. Karimi 

Control Engineering Practice. 2019. Vol. 83, p. 11 – 20. DOI : 10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.10.007.

Decentralized and Distributed Transient Control for Microgrids

C. M. Kammer; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2019. Vol. 27, num. 1, p. 311 – 322. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2017.2768421.

Large‐Range HS‐AFM Imaging of DNA Self‐Assembly through In Situ Data‐Driven Control

A. P. Nievergelt; C. M. Kammer; C. Brillard; E. E. Kurisinkal; M. Bastings et al. 

Small Methods. 2019. Vol. 3, p. 1900031. DOI : 10.1002/smtd.201900031.

2018

Journal Articles

Plug-and-Play Robust Voltage Control of DC Microgrids

M. Sadabadi; Q. Shafiee; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 2018. Vol. 9, num. 6, p. 6886 – 6896. DOI : 10.1109/TSG.2017.2728319.

Robust H-infinity Controller Design Using Frequency-Domain Data via Convex Optimization

A. Karimi; A. Nicoletti; Y. Zhu 

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 2018. Vol. 28, num. 12, p. 3766 – 3783. DOI : 10.1002/rnc.3594.

Conference Papers

A Data-Driven Method for Computing Fixed-Structure Low-Order Controllers With H∞ Performance

A. Nicoletti; A. Karimi 

2018. European Control Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, June 12-15, 2018. p. 882 – 887. DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2018.8550359.

Robust Controller Design For Linear Systems With Nonlinear Distortions: A Data-Driven Approach

A. Nicoletti; A. Karimi 

2018. European Control Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, June 12-15, 2018. p. 1 – 6. DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2018.8550381.

A Data-Driven Fixed-Structure Control Design Method with Application to a 2-DOF Gyroscope

C. M. Kammer; A. Karimi 

2018. 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21-24, 2018. p. 915 – 920. DOI : 10.1109/CCTA.2018.8511429.

Theses

A Data-Driven Frequency-Domain Approach for Robust Controller Design via Convex Optimization

A. Nicoletti / A. Karimi; M. Martino (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Frequency-Domain Control Design in Power Systems

C. M. Kammer / A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

2017

Journal Articles

Fixed-order loop shaping robust controller design for parametric models to damp inter-area oscillations

A. A. Abdlrahem; R. Hadidi; A. Karimi; P. Saraf; E. Makram 

International Journal Of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 2017. Vol. 88, p. 164 – 174. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijepes.2016.12.013.

Plug-and-play Voltage Stabilization in Inverter-interfaced Microgrids via a Robust Control Strategy

M. Sadabadi; Q. Shafiee; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2017. Vol. 25, num. 3, p. 781 – 791. DOI : 10.1109/Tcst.2016.2583378.

A Robust Active Damping Control Strategy for an LCL-based Grid-connected DG Unit

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Haddadi; H. Karimi; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 2017. Vol. 64, num. 10, p. 8055 – 8065. DOI : 10.1109/TIE.2017.2696501.

A Data-driven Approach to Robust Control of Multivariable Systems by Convex Optimization

A. Karimi; C. M. Kammer 

Automatica. 2017. Vol. 85, p. 227 – 233. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2017.07.063.

Conference Papers

Linear Parameter-Varying Kalman Filter for angular velocity estimation of a reaction sphere actuator for satellite attitude control

G. B. Gallego; L. Rossini; E. Onillon; A. Karimi 

2017. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Munich, Germany, 3-7 July 2017. p. 352 – 357. DOI : 10.1109/AIM.2017.8014042.

A Data-Driven Approach to Power Converter Control via Convex Optimization

A. Nicoletti; M. Martino; A. Karimi 

2017. 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, August 27-30, 2017. p. 1466 – 1471. DOI : 10.1109/CCTA.2017.8062665.

Data-Driven Controller Design for Atomic-Force Microscopy

C. M. Kammer; A. P. Nievergelt; G. Fantner; A. Karimi 

2017. 20th World Congress of IFAC, Toulouse, France, August 27-30, 2017.

Advanced Droop Control in Islanded Microgrids Using Dynamic Phasor Models

C. M. Kammer; A. Karimi 

2017. 20th World Congress of IFAC, Toulouse, France, July 9-14, 2017.

BLOCKING PROBABILITY OF DRIFTWOOD AT OGEE CREST SPILLWAYS WITH PIERS: INFLUENCE OF WOODY DEBRIS CHARACTERISTICS

P. Furlan; M. Pfister; J. P. Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos; A. Schleiss 

2017. 37th IAHR World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 13-18, 2017. p. 2357 – 2364.

2016

Conference Papers

Design of a Fixed-Order Robust Controller Using Loop Shaping Method for Damping Inter-Area Oscillations in Power Systems

A. Abdlrahem; P. Saraf; R. Hadidi; A. Karimi; H. Sherwali et al. 

2016. IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), Urbana, IL, FEB 19-20, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/PECI.2016.7459267.

High Performance Control of a Corner Cube Reflector by a Frequency-Domain Data-Driven Robust Control Method

E. Thalmann; Y-J. Regamey; A. Karimi 

2016. American Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 6-8, 2016. p. 455 – 460. DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2016.7524956.

Robust Distributed Averaging Frequency Control of Inverter-Based Microgrids

C. M. Kammer; A. Karimi 

2016. 55th conference in decision and control, Las Vegas, USA, December 12-14, 2016. p. 4973 – 4978. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2016.7799029.

Theses

Fixed-structure Control of LTI Systems with Polytopic-type Uncertainty : Application to Inverter-interfaced Microgrids

M. S. Sad Abadi / A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

2015

Journal Articles

Fixed-order decentralized/distributed control of islanded inverter-interfaced microgrids

M. S. Sad Abadi; A. Karimi; H. Karimi 

Control Engineering Practice. 2015. Vol. 45, p. 174 – 193. DOI : 10.1016/j.conengprac.2015.09.003.

Fixed-structure H-2 controller design for polytopic systems via LMIs

A. Sadeghzadeh; A. Karimi 

Optimal Control Applications and Methods. 2015. Vol. 36, num. 6, p. 794 – 809. DOI : 10.1002/oca.2132.

Fixed-structure LPV Discrete-time Controller Design with Induced l2-Norm and H2 Performance

Z. Emedi; A. Karimi 

International Journal of Control. 2015. Vol. 89, num. 3, p. 494 – 505. DOI : 10.1080/00207179.2015.1081986.

Conference Papers

Fixed-order SISO controller design for H∞ loop shaping method using frequency responses

T. Kubo; K. Yubai; A. Karimi; D. Yashiro; J. Hirai 

2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Seville, 17-19 March 2015. p. 252 – 257. DOI : 10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125107.

Fixed-order Linear Parameter Varying Controller Design for a 2DOF Gyroscope

Z. Emedi; A. Karimi 

2015. 1st IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems, Grenoble, France, October 7-9, 2015. p. 230 – 235. DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.11.142.

Sensor Placement in LTI Systems with Polytopic Uncertainty via Convex Optimization

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2015. 8th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND), Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2015. p. 13 – 18. DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.426.

Fixed-order Control of LTI Systems subject to Polytopic Uncertainty via the Concept of Strictly Positive Realness

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2015. American Control Conference (ACC), Chicago, IL, USA, July, 2015. p. 2882 – 2887. DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2015.7171172.

A Data-Driven Approach in Designing RST Controllers with H∞ Performance via Convex Optimization

A. Nicoletti; Z. Emedi; A. Karimi 

2015. 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, December 15-18, 2015. p. 6650 – 6655. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2015.7403266.

Design of a Switching Controller for Adaptive Disturbance Attenuation with Guaranteed Stability

G. Battistelli; A. Karimi; D. Selvi; A. Tesi 

2015. 14th European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, July 15-17, 2015. p. 434 – 439. DOI : 10.1109/ECC.2015.7330582.

Book Chapters

Robust Smith Predictor Design for Time-Delay Systems with H∞ Performance

V. de Oliveira; A. Nicoletti; A. Karimi 

Recent Results on Time-Delay Systems; Switzerland: Springer, 2015. p. 287 – 307.

2014

Journal Articles

Multivariable Control of Single-Inductor Dual-Output Buck Converters

J. D. Dasika; B. Bahrani; M. Saeedifard; A. Karimi; A. Rufer 

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 2014. Vol. 29, num. 4, p. 2061 – 2070. DOI : 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2266616.

Improved methodology and set-point design for diagnosis of model-plant mismatch in control loops using plant-model ratio

S. Kaw; A. K. Tangirala; A. Karimi 

Journal Of Process Control. 2014. Vol. 24, num. 11, p. 1720 – 1732. DOI : 10.1016/j.jprocont.2014.09.005.

A comparison of model-based and data-driven controller tuning

S. Formentin; K. Van Heusden; A. Karimi 

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2014. Vol. 28, num. 10, p. 882 – 897. DOI : 10.1002/acs.2415.

Enhancing statistical performance of data-driven controller tuning via L2-regularization

S. Formentin; A. Karimi 

Automatica. 2014. Vol. 50, num. 5, p. 1514 – 1520. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.04.001.

Conference Papers

Fixed-order Discrete-time LPV Controller Design

Z. Emedi; A. Karimi 

2014. 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 24-29, 2014. p. 6914 – 6919. DOI : 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.02763.

Robust Performance Analysis of Single Parameter-dependent Systems with Polynomially Parameter-dependent Lyapunov Matrices

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2014. 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 24-29, 2014. p. 6141 – 6146. DOI : 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00787.

Robust H-infinity Controller Design Using Frequency-Domain Data

A. Karimi; Y. Zhu 

2014. 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 24-29, 2014. p. 4921 – 4926. DOI : 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.01802.

H∞ smith predictor design for time-delayed MIMO systems via convex optimization

A. Nicoletti; A. Karimi 

2014. 2014 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Juan Les Antibes, France, 8-10 October 2014. p. 1418 – 1424. DOI : 10.1109/CCA.2014.6981523.

Fixed-order Sparse Control of Interconnected Systems with Polytopic Uncertainty

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2014. 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 24-29, 2014.

Theses

From Fixed-Order Gain-Scheduling to Fixed-Structure LPV Controller Design

Z. Emedi / A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Reports

Fixed-order Controller Design of Linear Systems

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2014

2013

Journal Articles

Decoupled dq-Current Control of Grid-Tied Voltage Source Converters Using Nonparametric Models

B. Bahrani; A. Karimi; B. Rey; A. Rufer 

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 2013. Vol. 60, num. 4, p. 1356 – 1366. DOI : 10.1109/TIE.2012.2185017.

A Multivariable Design Methodology for Voltage Control of a Single-DG-Unit Microgrid

B. Bahrani; M. Saeedifard; A. Karimi; A. Rufer 

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2013. Vol. 9, num. 2, p. 589 – 599. DOI : 10.1109/TII.2012.2221129.

A data-driven approach to mixed-sensitivity control with application to an active suspension system

S. Formentin; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2013. Vol. 9, num. 4, p. 2293 – 2300. DOI : 10.1109/TII.2012.2220556.

Optimal input design for direct data-driven tuning of model-reference controllers

S. Formentin; A. Karimi; S. M. Savaresi 

Automatica. 2013. Vol. 49, num. 6, p. 1874 – 1882. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2013.02.054.

H infinity Gain-scheduled Controller Design for Rejection of Time-varying Narrow-band Disturbances Applied to a Benchmark Problem

A. Karimi; Z. Emedi 

European Journal of Control. 2013. Vol. 19, num. 4, p. 279 – 288. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejcon.2013.05.010.

Conference Papers

Multivariable Control of Single-Inductor Dual-Output Buck Converters

B. Bahrani; J. D. Dasika; M. Saeedifard; A. Karimi; A. Rufer 

2013. APEC 2013 : Twenty-Eighth Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, Long Beach, California, USA, 17-21 March 2013. p. 1103 – 1108. DOI : 10.1109/APEC.2013.6520437.

Fixed-order Controller Design for State Space Polytopic Systems by Convex Optimization

A. Karimi; M. Sadabadi 

2013. IFAC Joint Conference, Grenoble, France, February 4-6, 2013. p. 683 – 688. DOI : 10.3182/20130204-3-FR-2033.00194.

Robust Smith Predictor Design for Time-Delay Systems with H infinity Performance

V. De Oliveira; A. Karimi 

2013. IFAC Joint Conference, Grenoble, France, February 4-6, 2013. p. 102 – 107. DOI : 10.3182/20130204-3-FR-4031.00012.

Frequency-Domain Robust Control Toolbox

A. Karimi 

2013. 52nd Conference in Decision and Control, Florance, Italy, December 10-13, 2013. p. 3744 – 3749. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2013.6760460.

On L2-Regularization for Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning

S. Formentin; A. Karimi 

2013. American Control Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 17-19, 2013. p. 3105 – 3110. DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2013.6580308.

Fixed-order LPV Controller Design for LPV Systems by Convex Optimization

Z. Emedi; A. Karimi 

2013. IFAC Joint Conference, Grenoble, France, February 4-6, 2013. DOI : 10.3182/20130204-3-FR-2033.00124.

Model-based and data-driven model-reference control: a comparative analysis

S. Formentin; K. van Heusden; A. Karimi 

2013. European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, July 17-19, 2013. p. 1410 – 1415. DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2013.6669388.

Direct data-driven design of sparse controllers

S. Formentin; A. Karimi 

2013. American Control Conference, Washington, DC, June 17-19, 2013. p. 3099 – 3104. DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2013.6580307.

H-Infinity Gain-Scheduled Controller Design for Rejection of Time-Varying Disturbances with Application to an Active Suspension System

A. Karimi; Z. Emedi 

2013. 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, December 10-13, 2013. p. 7540 – 7545. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2013.6761087.

An LMI Formulation of Fixed-order H-infinity and H-2 Controller Design for Discrete-time Systems with Polytopic Uncertainty

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2013. 52nd Conference in Decision and Control, Florance, Italy, December 10-13, 2013. p. 2453 – 2458. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2013.6760248.

Fixed-order H-infinity and H-2 Controller Design for Continuous-time Polytopic Systems: An LMI-based Approach

M. S. Sadabadi; A. Karimi 

2013. European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, July 17-19, 2013. p. 1132 – 1137. DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2013.6669297.

2012

Journal Articles

A solution to the flexible transmission benchmark by convex optimization

G. Galdos Sanz de Galdeano; A. Karimi 

Journal of Vibration and Control. 2012. Vol. 18, num. 7, p. 964 – 972. DOI : 10.1177/1077546311410340.

Conference Papers

On input design for direct data-driven controller tuning

S. Formentin; A. Karimi; S. M. Savaresi 

2012. 16th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Bruxelles, Belgium, July 11-13, 2012. p. 1466 – 1471. DOI : 10.3182/20120711-3-BE-2027.00305.

A toolbox for robust PID controller tuning using convex optimization

M. Sadeghpour; V. de Oliveira; A. Karimi 

2012. IFAC Conference in Advances in PID Control, Brescia, Italy, March 28-30, 2012. DOI : 10.3182/20120328-3-IT-3014.00027.

Robust and Gain-Scheduled PID Controller Design for Condensing Boilers by Linear Programming

V. De Oliveira; A. Karimi 

2012. IFAC Conference in Advances in PID Control, Brescia, Italy, March 28-30, 2012. DOI : 10.3182/20120328-3-IT-3014.00057.

Fixed-order LPV Controller Design for Rejection of a Sinusoidal Disturbance with Time-varying Frequency

Z. Emedi; A. Karimi 

2012. 2012 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 3 – 5, 2012. p. 837 – 842. DOI : 10.1109/CCA.2012.6402733.

2011

Journal Articles

Fixed-order H-infinity controller design for systems with ellipsoidal parametric uncertainty

A. Sadeghzadeh; H. Momeni; A. Karimi 

International Journal of Control. 2011. Vol. 84, num. 1, p. 57 – 65. DOI : 10.1080/00207179.2010.540040.

Data-driven model reference control with asymptotically guaranteed stability

K. van Heusden; A. Karimi; D. Bonvin 

Int. Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2011. Vol. 25, num. 4, p. 331 – 351. DOI : 10.1002/acs.1212.

On identification methods for direct data-driven controller tuning

K. van Heusden; A. Karimi; T. Söderström 

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2011. Vol. 25, p. 448 – 465. DOI : 10.1002/acs.1213.

Conference Papers

RST Controller Design by Convex Optimization Using Frequency-Domain Data

G. Galdos; A. Karimi; R. Longchamp 

2011. 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, August, 2011. DOI : 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.00407.

Direct data-driven H2 − H∞ loop-shaping

S. Formentin; A. Karimi; S. M. Savaresi 

2011. 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 – September 2, 2011. p. 11423 – 11428. DOI : 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.01570.

Robust gain-scheduled blending control of raw-mix quality in cement industries

V. De Oliveira; M. Amrhein; A. Karimi 

2011. 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 12-15, 2011. p. 4189 – 4194. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160777.

Books

Adaptive Control: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications

I. Landau; R. Lozano; M. M’Saad; A. Karimi 

London: Springer, 2011.

2010

Journal Articles

H∞ Controller Design for Spectral MIMO Models by Convex Optimization

G. Galdos; A. Karimi; R. Longchamp 

Journal of Process Control. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 10, p. 1175 – 1182. DOI : 10.1016/j.jprocont.2010.07.006.

Fixed-Order H-infinity Controller Design via Convex Optimization Using an Alternative to Youla Prameterization

H. Khatibi; A. Karimi 

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2010. Vol. 55, num. 9, p. 2119 – 2123. DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2010.2050709.

Linear Parameter Varying Iterative Learning Control with application to a Linear Motor System

M. Butcher; A. Karimi 

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2010. Vol. 15, num. 3, p. 412 – 420. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2027435.

Fixed-order H-infinity Controller Design for Nonparametric Models by Convex Optimization

A. Karimi; G. Galdos 

Automatica. 2010. Vol. 46, num. 8, p. 1388 – 1394. DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2010.05.019.

Data-driven tuning of linear parameter varying precompensators

M. Butcher; A. Karimi 

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2010. Vol. 24, num. 7, p. 592 – 609. DOI : 10.1002/acs.1151.

Conference Papers

Robust Controller Design by Convex Optimization based on Finite Frequency Samples of Spectral Models

G. Galdos; A. Karimi; R. Longchamp 

2010. 49th Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 15-17, 2010. p. 4317 – 4322. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2010.5718094.

Non-iterative data-driven controller tuning with guaranteed stability: Application to direct-drive pick-and-place robot

K. van Heusden; A. Karimi; D. Bonvin; A. den Hamer; M. Steinbuch 

2010. 2010 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Yokohama, September 8-10, 2010. p. 1005 – 1010. DOI : 10.1109/CCA.2010.5611118.

Theses

Non-Iterative Data-Driven Model Reference Control

K. v. Heusden / D. Bonvin; A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

Fixed-Order Robust Controller Design by Convex Optimization Using Spectral Models

G. Galdos Sanz de Galdeano / R. Longchamp; A. Karimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

Book Chapters

Iterative Learning Control Using Stochastic Approximation Theory with Application to a Mechatronic System

M. E. J. Butcher; A. Karimi 

Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling; London: Springer, 2010. p. 49 – 64.