Preprints

⁴  Yaldiz, C. O., Yildiz, Y., “Modeling Human Driver Interactions Using an Infinite Policy Space Through Gaussian Processes,” arXiv:2201.01733. [PDF]

³  Koprulu, C., Yildiz, Y., “Act to Reason: A Dynamic Game Theoretical Driving Model for Highway Merging Applications,” arXiv:2101.05399. [PDF]

² Eraslan, E., Yildiz, Y., “Modeling, Control and Human-in-the Loop Stability Analysis of an Elastic Quadrotor,” arXiv:2012.05747. [PDF]

¹  Temiz, O., Cakmakci, M., Yildiz. Y., “A Fault-Tolerant Integrated Vehicle Stability Control Using Adaptive Control Allocation,”  arXiv:2008.05697. [PDF]

Journal Papers

²⁹ Habboush, A., Yildiz, Y., “Attention-Enabled Memory for Concurrent Learning Adaptive Control,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, in press, 2022. [PDF]

²⁸ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I. “Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller for Over-Actuated Systems with Constrained and Uncertain Actuators in Flight Control Applications,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, in press, 2022. [PDF]

²⁷ Habboush, A., Yildiz, Y., “An Adaptive Human Pilot Model for Adaptively Controlled Systems,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, 2022. [PDF]

²⁶ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., “A Control Theoretical Adaptive Human Pilot Model: Theory and Experimental Validation,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2022. [PDF]

²⁵ Albaba, B. M., Musavi, N., Yildiz Y., “A 3D Game Theoretical Framework for the Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration Concepts,” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 133, 2021. [PDF]

²⁴ Albaba, B. M., Yildiz Y., “Driver Modeling through Deep Reinforcement Learning and Behavioral Game Theory.” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 885 – 892, 2022. [PDF]

²³ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., “Handling actuator magnitude and rate saturation in uncertain over-actuated systems: A modified projection algorithm approach,” International Journal of Control, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 790-803, 2022. [PDF]

²² Tian, R., Li, N., Kolmanovsky, I., Yildiz, Y., Girard, A.R., “Game-theoretic modeling of traffic in unsignalized intersection network for autonomous vehicle control verification and validation,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 2211 – 2226, 2022. [PDF]

²¹ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “Adaptive Control Allocation for Constrained Systems,” Automatica, vol. 121, 2020. [PDF]

²⁰ Eraslan, E., Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A. M., “Shared Control Between Pilots and Autopilots: Illustration of a Cyber-Physical Human System,” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 77-97, 2020. [PDF]

¹⁹ Yildiz, Y. “Controlling a Launch Vehicle at Exoatmospheric Flight Conditions Via Adaptive Control Allocation,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, vol. 28, pp. 2278-2287, 2020. [PDF]

¹⁸ Albaba, B. M., Yildiz, Y. “Modeling Cyber-Physical Human Systems via an Interplay Between Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory,” Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 48, pp. 1-21, 2019. [PDF]

¹⁷ Yildiz, Y. “Air Fuel Ratio Control Using Delay Resistant Closed Loop Reference Model Adaptive Control,” Journal of Aeronautics and Space Technologies, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 18, 2018. [PDF]

¹⁶ (COVER ARTICLE) Alan, A., Yildiz, Y., Poyraz U., “High-Performance Adaptive Pressure Control in the Presence of Time Delays: Pressure Control for Use in Variable-Thrust Rocket Development” IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 26-52, 2018. [PDF]

¹⁵ Li, N., Oyler, D. W., Zhang, M., Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky I. V., Girard, A., “Game-Theoretic Modeling of Driver and Vehicle Interactions for Verification and Validation of Autonomous Vehicle Control Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1782-1797, 2018. [PDF]

¹⁴ Yücelen, T., Yildiz, Y., Sipahi, R., Yousefi, E., Nguyen, N., “Stability Limit of Human-in the-Loop Model Reference Adaptive Control Architectures,” International Journal of Control, vol. 91, no. 10, pp. 2314-2331, 2018. [PDF]

¹³ Hussain, H., Yildiz, Y., Matsutani, M., Annaswamy, A. M., Lavretsky, E., “Computable Delay Margins for Adaptive Systems with State Variables Accessible,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 5039-5054, 2017. [PDF]

¹² Yildiz, Y., Unel, M., Demirel, A. E., “Nonlinear Hierarchical Control of a Quad-Tilt-Wing UAV: An Adaptive Control Approach,” International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol. 31, pp. 1245-1264, 2017. [PDF]

¹¹ Musavi, N., Onural, D., Gunes, K., Yildiz, Y., “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration: A Game Theoretical Framework for Concept Evaluations,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 96-109, 2017. [PDF]

¹⁰Abidi, K., Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A. M., “Control of Uncertain Sampled-Data Systems: An Adaptive Posicast Control Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 5, 2597-2602, 2017. [PDF]

⁹Abidi, K., Yildiz, Y., Korpe, B. E., “Explicit Time Delay Compensation in Teleoperation: An Adaptive Control Approach,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 26, no. 15, pp. 3388-3403, 2016. [PDF]

⁸ Acosta, D., Yildiz, Y., Craun, R., Beard, S., Leonard, M., Hardy, G., Weinstein, M., “Piloted Evaluation of a Control Allocation Technique to Recover From Pilot-Induced Oscillations,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, vol.52, no. 1, pp. 130-140, 2015. [PDF]

⁷ Yildiz, Y., Brat, G., Agogino, A. “Predicting Pilot Behavior in Medium Scale Scenarios Using Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 1335-1343, 2014. [PDF]

⁶ Backhaus, S., Bent, R., Bono, J., Lee, R., Tracey, B., Wolpert, D., Xie, D., Yildiz, Y., “Cyber Physical Security: A Game Theory Model of Humans Interacting over Control Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 2320-2327, 2013. [PDF]

⁵ Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Yanakiev, D., Kolmanovsky, I., “Spark Ignition Engine Idle Speed Control: An Adaptive Control Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol.19, no. 5, pp. 990-1002, 2011. [PDF]

⁴ Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “Stability properties and cross coupling performance of the control allocation scheme CAPIO,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1190-1196, 2011. [PDF]

³ Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Kolmanovsky, I., Yanakiev, D., “Adaptive Posicast Controller for Time-delay Systems with Relative Degree n*<=2,” Automatica, vol.46, no. 2, pp. 279 289, 2010. [PDF]

² Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Yanakiev, D., Kolmanovsky, I., “Spark Ignition Engine Fuel-to-Air Ratio Control: An Adaptive Control Approach”, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1369-1378, 2010. [PDF]

¹ Yildiz, Y., Sabanovic, A., Abidi, K., “Sliding-Mode Neuro-Controller for Uncertain Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 1676-1685,2007. [PDF]

Book Chapters

³ Annaswamy A.M., Yildiz Y., “Cyber-Physical-Human Systems,” in Encyclopedia of Systems and Control, Eds. Baillieul J., Samad T., Springer, London, 2020.

² Li, N., Zhang, M., Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., Girard, A., “Game Theory-Based Traffic Modeling for Calibration of Automated Driving Algorithms,” in Control Strategies for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving Functions, pp. 89-105, Eds. Waschl, H., Kolmanovsky, I., and Willems, F., Springer International Publishing AG, 2019. 

¹ Erbatur, K., Yildiz, Y., Sabanovic, A., “Sliding Modes in Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems,” in Variable Structure Systems: from principles to implementation, pp.245 –264, Eds. Sabanovic, A., Fridman, L. M., and Spurgeon, S., The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2004. 

Conference Papers

⁵⁰  Habboush, A., Yildiz, Y., “An Adaptive Pilot Model with Explicit Reaction Time-Delay for Adaptively Controlled Systems,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, accepted for publication, 2022.

⁴⁹  Yaldız, C. O., Yildiz, Y., “Driver Modeling Using Continuous Reasoning Levels: A Game Theoretical Approach,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,  2022.

⁴⁸  Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., “A Generalized Human-In-The-Loop Stability Analysis in the Presence of Uncertain and Redundant Actuator Dynamics,” American Control Conference, 2022. 

⁴⁷  Habboush, A., Yildiz, Y., “Modeling Pilot-Flight Control System Interactions in the Presence of Uncertainty,” AIAA Scitech 2022, 2022.

⁴⁶  Emre, E., and Yildiz, Y., “Modeling and Adaptive Control of Flexible Quadrotor UAVs,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 1783-1788, 2021.

⁴⁵ Albaba, B. M., Musavi, N., and Yildiz, Y., “A 3D Modeling Framework for the Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2021.

⁴⁴ Koprulu, C., Yildiz, Y., “Act to Reason: A Dynamic Game Theoretical Driving Model for Highway Merging Applications,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2021.

⁴³ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., and Kolmanovsky, I., “Sliding mode control for over-actuated systems with adaptive control allocation and its applications to flight control,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2021.

⁴² Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., “Discrete Adaptive Control Allocation,” American Control Conference, pp. 3731-3736, 2021.

⁴¹ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y. “Adaptive Control Allocation: A Human-In-The-Loop Stability Analysis,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 6321-6326, 2020.

⁴⁰ Koru, A. T., Arabi, E., Dogan, K. M., Yucelen, T., Sipahi, R., Yildiz, Y., “Set-Theoretic Model Reference Adaptive Control for Performance Guarantees in Human-in-the-Loop Systems; A Pilot Study,” AIAA Scitech Forum, 2020. 

³⁹ Albaba, M., Yildiz, Y., Li, N., Kolmanovsky, I., Girard, A., “Stochastic driver modeling and validation with traffic data,” American Control Conference, pp. 4198-4203, 2019. 

³⁸ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., “Adaptive Human Pilot Model for Uncertain Systems,” European Control Conference, pp. 2938-2943, 2019.

³⁷ Temiz, O., Cakmakci, M., Yildiz, Y., “Adaptive Control Allocation with Communication Delay for In-Wheel Propulsion Electric Vehicles,” IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, vol. 52, no. 20, pp. 157-162, 2019.

³⁶ Arabi, E., Yucelen, T., Sipahi, R., Yildiz, Y., “Human-in-the-Loop Systems with Inner and Outer Feedback Control Loops: Adaptation, Stability Conditions, and Performance Constraints,” AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019.

³⁵ Su, G., Li, N., Yildiz, Y., Girard, A., Kolmanovsky, I., “A traffic simulation model with interactive drivers and high-fidelity car dynamics,” IFAC Cyber Physical Human Systems Conference, vol. 51, no. 34, pp. 384-389, 2019.

³⁴ Tian, R., Li, S., Li, N., Kolmanovsky, I., Girard, A., Yildiz, Y, “Adaptive game-theoretic decision making for autonomous vehicle control at roundabouts,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 321-326, 2018

³³ Temiz, O., Cakmakci, M., Yildiz, Y., “A Fault Tolerant Vehicle Stability Control Using Adaptive Control Allocation,” ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2018.

³² Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., & Kolmanovsky, “Pilot induced oscillation mitigation for unmanned aircraft systems: an adaptive control allocation approach,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, pp. 343-348, 2018.

³¹ Li, N., Kolmanovsky, I. V., Girard, A., Yildiz, Y., “Game Theoretic Modeling of Vehicle Interactions at Unsignalized Intersections and Application to Autonomous Vehicle Control,” American Control Conference, pp. 3215-3220, 2018.

³⁰ Yousefi, E., Demir, D. F., Sipahi, R., Yücelen, T., Yildiz, Y., “Effects Of Linear Filter On Stability And Performance Of Human-in-the-Loop Model Reference Adaptive Control Architecture,” ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference, 2017.

²⁹ Yousefi, E., Yildiz, Y., Sipahi, R., Yucelen, T., “The Effect of Remote-Signal Feedback Architecture on the Stability of Human-in-the-Loop Telerobotics in the Presence of Time-Delays,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, pp. 1288-1293, 2017.

²⁸ Alan, A., Yildiz, Y., Poyraz, U., “Adaptive Pressure Control Experiment: Controller Design and Implementation,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, pp. 80-85, 2017.

²⁷ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I. V., “Adaptive Control Allocation for Over-Actuated Systems with Actuator Saturation,” IFAC World Congress, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 5492-5497, 2017.

²⁶ Dibaji, S. M., Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Chakrabortty, A., “Delay-Aware Control Designs of Wide-Area Power Networks,” IFAC World Congress, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 79-84, 2017.

²⁵ Yousefi, E., Yildiz, Y., Sipahi, R., Yucelen, T., “Stability analysis of a human-in-the-loop telerobotics system with two independent time-delays,” IFAC World Congress, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 6519-6524, 2017. 

²⁴ Yücelen, T., Yildiz, Y., Sipahi, R., Yousefi, E., Nguyen, N., “Stability Analysis of Human-Adaptive Controller Interactions,” 2017 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, 2017. 

²³ Anıl, A., Yildiz, Y., Poyraz U., “Pressure Control of Cold Air Testing Plant with Delay Resistant Closed-loop Reference Model Adaptive Control,” AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA Paper No. 10.2514/6.2017-0121, 2017. 

²² Oyler, D. W., Li, N., Zhang, M., Yildiz, Y., Girard, A., Kolmanovsky I. V., “Hierarchical Reasoning Game Theory Based Approach for Evaluation and Testing of Autonomous Vehicle Control Systems,” 2016 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 727-733, 2016. 

²¹ Tohidi, S. S., Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “Fault Tolerant Control for Over-Actuated Systems: An Adaptive Correction Approach,” American Control Conference, pp. 2530-2535, 2016.

²⁰ Oyler, D., Yildiz, Y., Girard, A., Kolmanovsky, I, “A Game Theoretical Model of Traffic with Multiple Interacting Drivers for Use in Autonomous Vehicle Development,” American Control Conference, pp. 1705-1710, 2016.

¹⁹ Musavi, N., Tekelioğlu, K. B., Yildiz, Y., Gunes, K.,  Onural, D., “A Game Theoretical Modeling and Simulation Framework For The Integration Of UAS In To The NAS,”AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, no. AIAA-2016-1001, 2016.  

¹⁸ Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., “Robust Adaptive Posicast Controller,” IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 398-403, 2015.

¹⁷ Abidi, K., Yildiz, Y., “On the Discrete Adaptive Posicast Controller,” IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 422-427, 2015.

¹⁶ Alan, A., Yildiz, Y., Poyraz, U., “Gas Generator Pressure Control in Throttleable Ducted Rockets: A Classical and Adaptive Control Approach,” AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, 2015.

¹⁵ Yildiz, Y., Unel, M., Demirel, A. E., “Adaptive Nonlinear Hierarchical Control of a Novel Quad Tilt-Wing UAV,” European Control Conference, pp. 3623-3628, 2015.

¹⁴ Abidi, K., Yildiz, Y., Korpe, B. E., “Explicit Adaptive Time-Delay Compensation for Bilateral Teleoperation,” IEEE Chinese Control and Decision Conference,  pp. 3379-3383, 2015.

¹³ Yildiz, Y., Brat, G., A. Agogino, “Predicting Pilot Behavior in Medium Scale Scenarios Using Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning”, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, AIAA 2013-4908, 2013.

¹² Craun, R., Acosta, D., Beard, S., Leonard, M., Hardy, G., Weinstein, M., Yildiz, Y. (2013). “Motion-Based Piloted Simulation Evaluation of a Control Allocation Technique to Recover from Pilot Induced Oscillations”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2013-4926, 2013.

¹¹ Yildiz, Y., Brat, G., Lee, R., “Using Game Theoretic Models to Predict Pilot Behavior in NextGen Merging and Landing Scenario,” “, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, AIAA 2012-4487, 2012.

¹⁰ Yildiz, Y. , “The Effect of Explicit Adaptive Time Delay Compensation on Time Delay Margin”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA Paper 2011-6440, 2011.

⁹ Abidi, K., Yildiz, Y., “Discrete-Time Adaptive Posicast Controller for Uncertain Time-Delay Systems”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA 2011-6442, 2011.

⁸ Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “A Control Allocation System for Automatic Detection and Compensation of Phase Shift Due To Actuator Rate Limiting”, American Control Conference, pp. 444 – 449, 2011.

⁷ Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “Implementation of CAPIO for Composite Adaptive Control of Cross-Coupled Unstable Aircraft”, AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, AIAA Paper 2011-1460, 2010.

⁶ Yildiz, Y., “Adaptive Control For Time Delay Systems Applied To Flight Control”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA Paper 2010-7576, 2010.

⁵ Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “Stability properties and cross coupling performance of the control allocation scheme CAPIO”, AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, AIAA Paper 2010-347, 2010.

⁴ Yildiz, Y., Kolmanovsky, I., “A Control Allocation Technique to Recover From Pilot Induced Oscillations (CAPIO) Due To Actuator Rate Limiting”, American Control Conference, pp.516-523, 2010.

³ Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Yanakiev, D., Kolmanovsky, I., “Automotive Powertrain Control Problems Involving Time Delay: An Adaptive Control Approach”, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, pp.1421-1428, 2008. (BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD)

² Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Yanakiev, D., Kolmanovsky, I., “Adaptive Air Fuel Ratio Control for Internal Combustion Engines”, American Control Conference, pp.2058-2063, 2008.

¹ Yildiz, Y., Annaswamy, A., Yanakiev, D., Kolmanovsky, I., “Adaptive Idle Speed Control for Internal Combustion Engines”, American Control Conference, pp.3700-3705, 2007.