SEYED MAJID ESMAILIFAR - Amirkabir University of Technology

Supervised PhD Theses

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Cooperative Search and Localization of Multiple Radio Targets by a Swarm of UAVs Using Superpositional Measurements

ABBAS DEHGHANI FIROUZABADI

2025 Oct

2

Cooperative and Intelligent Fire Search Using Reinforcement Learning

SEPEHR SAADAT

2025 Jan

Supervised MSc Theses

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1

multi - rotor smart path - planning for precise aerial photogrammetry

MOHAMMADHOSSEIN SHIRVANI

2024 Sep

2

Design and control of a tilt-rotor with ability of vertical takeoff and landing in the presence of atmospheric disturbances

MOJTABA SALARI
Other Supervisor: Hamed MohammadKarimi

2024 Sep

3

Design and implementation of a multivariate adaptive controller for a fixed wing drone

MOEIN EHSANIYRAD & Hamed MohammadKarimi
Other Supervisor:

2024 Sep

4

Intelligent monitoring of solar power plants with multi agent system

AMIRHOSSEIN AGHAMOHAMMADI

2024 Mar

5

Cooperative path planning of multi satellite assembly

MARYAM SADAT SOBHANI

2024 Feb

6

configuration design of hybrid - electric aircraft to reduce environmental pollutions

SAEED AYADI
Other Supervisor: Hamed MohammadKarimi

2023 Sep

7

Formation flight control of multiple satellites for space observation

MOHAMMAD NIKNEJADI

2023 Jul

8

Design , Modeling and Control Of a Contra-Rotating Co-Axial Multirotor

MOHAMMAD MALAKOUTI KHAH

2023 May

9

Development of a dynamical-graphical simulation environment for PV power plants monitoring by aerial robots

MOHAMMAD KOLAHI

2023 May

10

Experimental investigation of aerodynamic coefficients and stability analysis of a flapping wing bird model at different tail angles

ELNAZ RAEISI MOBARAKEH & MAHMOUD MANI
Other Supervisor:

2022 Oct

11

extraction of pixhawk autopilots architecture (software and hardware ) and perform software - in - the - loop tests

ALI SALEHI MANESH

2022 Feb

12

fixed wing aircraft intelligent simulation in different flight conditions

SEIEDMAHDI HASHEMI

2021 Oct

13

Estimation of wind turbine wake speed using wind tunnel experiments

SEYYEDEH MARZIEH MOUSAVI
Other Supervisor: Mohammad Saeedi

2021 Sep

14

cooperative control of multi-spacecraft systems for attitude consensus in presence of stochastic connections

SABA AZHAND

2021 Jun

15

autopilot design for fixed wing uav in waypoint tracking mission

MAHDI KARIMKHANI

2021 Apr

16

Autolanding system design and implementation on an electric powered fixed wing aircraft

MOHAMMAD EHSAN BAKHTIARI

2020 Sep

17

Data fusion for wind turbine control using particle filter

MAHTAB GHORBANI

2020 Jul

18

Optimal Control of satellite attitude and position using on-off thrusters

MOHAMMAD MOUSAVI

2020 Feb

19

Modeling and Cooperative Control of Wind Turbines in Wind Farm to Capture Maximum Energy

REZA JAHANTIGH

2019 Jul

20

Designing Guidance and Control of Spacecraft Docking in the Presence of Orbital Disturbances

PEGAH ABDOLLAHZADEH

2019 Feb

21

Exoatmospheric time optimal interception by divert thrusters and divert attitude control

EHSAN TAJEDDIN

2019 Feb

22

ONLINE QUASI - OPTIMAL REENTRY VEHICLE QUIDANCE BY LOW LIFT TO DRAG RATIO

REZA YOOSEFI & Mahdi Mortazavi
Other Supervisor:

2018 Nov

23

Integrated guidance and control for high altitude and velocity air defense system

ALI CHITSAZ & Mahdi Mortazavi
Other Supervisor:

2018 Sep

24

modeling and control of multiple aerial robots in cooperative load manipulation

ALI GOLESORKH & Mahdi Mortazavi
Other Supervisor:

2018 Sep

25

Flying wing MIMO control with reseet to minimums effort strategy

MOSTAFA SALIMI & Mahdi Mortazavi
Other Supervisor:

2018 Feb

26

Euler angles control of a fixed-wing aerial robot using Physics-informed Neural Network

HADI ALINAGHIBEIGI

2026 Apr

27

Photovoltaic power plant monitoring and fault detection by aerial robot thermography

GHAEM TAGHIPOURKANI
Other Supervisor: Amirreza Ghahremani

2025 Sep

28

Improving the Performance of Inertial Navigation System with the Help of Artificial Intelligence , During satellite signals outage

MOHAMMADALI PARHIZKAR
Other Supervisor: Hamed MohammadKarimi

2025 Sep

29

vision/INS navigation using deep-learning

MOHAMMAD HAMIDI
Other Supervisor: Hamed MohammadKarimi

2025 Sep

30

(Physics Informed Neural Network method)Investigation of Wind Turbine Speed Field Using PINN

AMIR DERMANAKI FARAHANI & Amirreza Ghahremani
Other Supervisor:

2025 Oct

31

Modeling and simulation of Ground Gen Airborne Wind Energy System

ZAHRA MORADIAN

2025 Mar

32

Water Energy Food Nexus Optimization in Greenhouse using Internet of Things

SOGOL SAMIEE

2025 Mar

33

Nonlinear analysis and instability control of axial flow compressor

SAMANEH GHASEMI MOURODI
Other Supervisor: Hossein Khaleghi

2025 Feb

34

designing a satellite predictive attitude control algorithm and implementation on the processor in the loop testbed

MOHSEN NOROUZI
Other Supervisor: FARHAD FANI SABERI

2025 Apr

Books

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Chapter 9 - Digital twin technology in solar energy

Mohammadreza Aghaei, M. Kolahi, S.M. Esmailifar, A.m. Moradi Sizkouhi, A. Nedaei, Mattia Manni, Aref Eskandari, Gabriele Lobaccaro

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Journal Papers

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S.M. Mousavi, S.M. Esmailifar, H. Schulte, "Fault-tolerant effective wind speed estimation in wind farms via EKF and deep learning fusion", Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2026 Apr vol. 71, no. 104306, pp.104306-104330, 2026.

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A. Dehghani Firouzabadi, S.M. Esmailifar, "Efficient Path Planning of Multiple Aerial Robots for Tracking a Variable Number of Moving Targets Using Superposition Measurements", International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 2026 Jan vol. 27, no. 2026, pp.710-733, 2026.

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M. Kolahi, S.M. Esmailifar, A.m. Moradi Sizkouhi, M. Aghaei, "Digital-PV: A digital twin-based platform for autonomous aerial monitoring of large-scale photovoltaic power plants", Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 Dec vol. 321, no. 1, pp.118963-118973, 2024.

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M. Aghaei, M. Kolahi, A. Nedaei, N. S. Venkatesh, S.M. Esmailifar, A. M. Moradi Sizkouhi, A. Aghamohammadi, Aline Kirsten Vidal De Oliveira, A. Eskandari, P. Parvin, J. Milimonfared, V. Sugumaran, R. Rther, "Autonomous Intelligent Monitoring of Photovoltaic Systems: An In-Depth Multidisciplinary Review", Progress In Photovoltaics, 2024 Nov vol. 33, no. 3, pp.381-409, 2024.

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M. Malakouti Khah, S.M. Esmailifar, S. Saadat, "Design and development of a novel multirotor configuration with counter-rotating coaxial propellers", Scientific Reports, 2024 May vol. 14, no. 11580, pp.1-36, 2024.

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M.J. Shahriyari, A. Dehghani Firouzabadi, H. Khaleghi, S.M. Esmailifar, "A new model for compressor surge and stall control", Scientific Reports, 2024 Mar vol. 14, no. 1, pp.1-16, 2024.

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M. Mousavi, S.M. Esmailifar, Mohammad Chiniforoushan, "Spacecraft Coupled Roto-translational Time-Optimal Control for Rendezvous Missions", Journal of The Astronautical Sciences, 2023 Jul vol. 70, no. 4, pp.23-43, 2023.

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R. Jahantigh, S.M. Esmailifar, Seyyed Ali Sina, "Wind farm control and power curve optimization using induction-based wake model", Measurement and Control, 2023 Jun vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-13, 2023.

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A. Dehghani Firouzabadi, S.M. Esmailifar, A. Jafargholi, "Autonomous track before detect of a radio target by an unmanned aerial vehicle using radio signal strength measurement", Aut Journal of Modeling and Simulation, 2023 May vol. 55, no. 1, pp.10-10, 2023.

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S. Naveen Venkatesh, B. Rebecca Jeyavadhanam, A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, S.M. Esmailifar, Mohammadreza Aghaei, V. Sugumaran, "Automatic detection of visual faults on photovoltaic modules using deep ensemble learning network", Energy Reports, 2022 Nov vol. 8, no. 8, pp.14382-14395, 2022.

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S. Saadat, S.M. Esmailifar, Fariborz Masroor, "Design of a Hybrid Heavy Multirotor with Long Range and High Payload Carrying Capacity for Using in Disaster Management", , 2022 Aug vol. 11, no. 1, pp.61-78, 2022.

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H. Mohammadkarimi, Hadi Nobahari, S.M. Esmailifar, S. Mozafari, "A new Analytical Method to improve Attitude correction in Inertial Navigation Systems", Aut Journal of Modeling and Simulation, 2022 Jun vol. 54, no. 1, pp.1-6, 2022.

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M. Mousavi, S.M. Esmailifar, Mohammad Chiniforoushan, "Time-optimal Control of Spacecraft Rotational and Translational Dynamics in Orbital Rendezvous Maneuver", , 2022 Feb vol. 1, no. 2, pp.147-166, 2022.

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A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, S.M. Esmailifar, Mohammadreza Aghaei, M. Karimkhani, "RoboPV: An integrated software package for autonomous aerial monitoring of large scale PV plants", Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 Feb vol. 254, no. 115217, pp.1-15, 2022.

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A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, Mohammadreza Aghaei, S.M. Esmailifar, "A deep convolutional encoder-decoder architecture for autonomous fault detection of PV plants using multi-copters", Solar Energy, 2021 May vol. 223, no. 223, pp.217-228, 2021.

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P. Abdollahzadeh, S.M. Esmailifar, "Automatic orbital docking with tumbling target using sliding mode control", Advances In Space Research, 2021 Mar vol. 67, no. 5, pp.1506-1525, 2021.

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A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, Mohammadreza Aghaei, S.M. Esmailifar, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Francesco Grimaccia, "Automatic Boundary Extraction of Large-Scale Photovoltaic Plants Using a Fully Convolutional Network on Aerial Imagery", Ieee Journal of Photovoltaics, 2020 Jul vol. 10, no. 4, pp.1061-1067, 2020.

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S.M. Esmailifar, Fariborz Saghafi, "Cooperative localization of marine targets by UAVs", Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2017 Mar vol. 87, no. 1, pp.23-42, 2017.

Conference Papers

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G. Taghipourkani, S.M. Esmailifar, A. Ghahremani, M. Aghaei, "UAV-BASED AUTONOMOUS MONITORING AND REAL-TIME THERMAL ANOMALY DETECTION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES,", EU PVSEC 2025, Sep 2025.

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A. Aghamohammadi, S.M. Esmailifar, M. Kolahi, A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, M.R. Aghaei, "Enhancing Autonomus Aerial Monitoring of Large-Scale Photovoltaic Plants Using a Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multi-Aerial Robot Systems,", EU PVSEC 2025, Sep 2025.

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G. Taghipourkani, S.M. Esmailifar, A. Ghahremani, .R. Aghaei, "Model Optimization for Multi-Class Real Time UAV Thermal Anomaly Detection in Solar PV Systems,", European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition 2025 EU PVSEC 2025, Sep 2025.

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M. Shirvani, Yosef Hafezi, S.M. Esmailifar, "Energy Loss Reduction in Power Distribution Systems through Intelligent Power Management of Electric UAVs,", 2024 8th International Conference on Smart Cities, Internet of Things and Applications (SCIoT), May 2024.

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M. Ehsaniyrad, H. Mohammadkarimi, S.M. Esmailifar, "Parametric adaptive controller design for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle,", 22nd International Conference of the Iranian Aerospace Society, Mar 2024.

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Mohammadreza Aghaei, M. Kolahi, A. Nedaei, Naveen Venkatesh Sridharan, A. Eskandari, Aline Kirsten Vidal De Oliveira, Vaithiyanathan Sugumaran, Ricardo Ruther, P. Parvin, S.M. Esmailifar, "A Holistic Study on Failures and Diagnosis Techniques in Photovoltaic Modules, Components and Systems,", 2023 International Conference on Future Energy Solutions (FES), Jun 2023.

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A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, S.M. Esmailifar, M. Karimkhani, Mohammadreza Aghaei, "ROBOPV: AN AERIAL ROBOTS' EMBEDDED CODE FOR INTELLIGENT MONITORING AND FAULT DETECTION OF LARGE-SCALE PV PLANTS USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODELS,", The 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Sep 2022.

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M. Shirvani, S. Saadat, S.M. Esmailifar, "Designing and Building of an Automatic Multi-rotor for Flight Tests,", 20th International Conference On Iranian Aerospace, Jun 2022.

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A. Ashrafi, S.M. Esmailifar, "path planning based on digital elevation map information using particle swarm optimization algorithm,", The 29th Annual International Conference of the Iranian Association of Mechanical Engineers and the 8th Conference on Thermal Power Plants, May 2021.

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M. Salehian, H.R. Ovesy, S.M. Esmailifar, Masood Yousefi, "vibration attenuation of rotating laminated composite fan blade beam using piezoelectric patches,", 18th int. conference of iranian aerospace society, Feb 2020.

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R. Jahantigh, S.M. Esmailifar, "Optimized wind turbine control to achieve maximum power from the wind farm using the PARK wake model,", The 18th International Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society, Feb 2020.

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S. Hashemi, R. Jahantigh, , S.M. Esmailifar, "Intelligent ATC modeling by indoor navigation,", The 18th International Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society, Feb 2020.

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A.M. Moradi Sizkouhi, S.M. Esmailifar, Mohammadreza Aghaei, Aline Kirsten Vidal De Oliveira, Ricardo Rther, "Autonomous Path Planning by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Precise Monitoring of Large-Scale PV plants,", 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, May 2019.

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M. Derakhshan, S.M. Esmailifar, "Simulation of a parachute landing on the surface of Mars,", 17th Int. conference of iranian aerospace society, Jun 2018.

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R. Soltani Najad, S.M. Esmailifar, "Systematic review of AHRS sensors and their calibration,", 17th Int. conference of iranian aerospace society, Jun 2018.

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S.M. Esmailifar, Florian Poschke, Eckhard Gauterin, Horst Schulte, "Particle Filter Design for Effective Wind Speed Estimation of Wind Turbines,", The 2018 annual American Control Conference, Jun 2018.

Taught Courses

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Course title

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Automatic Control

4051

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Advanced Mathematics (I)

4051

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Special Topics (Cooperative Control in Aerospace Systems)

4042

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Flight Mechanics (I)

4042

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Automatic Control

4041

6

Advanced Mathematics (I)

4041

7

Flight Mechanics (I)

4032

8

Guidance & Navigation (II)

4032