SEYED MAJID ESMAILIFAR - Amirkabir University of Technology

Supervised MSc Theses

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Thesis title

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1

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

Mohammad Kolahi & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

May 2023

2

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

Mohammad Malakouti Khah & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

May 2023

3

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

Elnaz Raeisi Mobarakeh & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

October 2022

4

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

Ali Salehi Manesh & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

February 2022

5

fixed wing aircraft intelligent simulation in different flight conditions

Seiedmahdi Hashemi & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

October 2021

6

Estimation of wind turbine wake speed using wind tunnel experiments

Seyyedeh Marzieh Mousavi & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

September 2021

7

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

Saba Azhand & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

June 2021

8

autopilot design for fixed wing uav in waypoint tracking mission

Mahdi Karimkhani & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

April 2021

9

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

Mohammad Ehsan Bakhtiari & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

September 2020

10

Data fusion for wind turbine control using particle filter

Mahtab Ghorbani & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

July 2020

11

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

Mohammad Mousavi & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

February 2020

12

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

Reza Jahantigh & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

July 2019

13

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

Pegah Abdollahzadeh & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

February 2019

14

Exoatmospheric time optimal interception by divert thrusters and divert attitude control

Ehsan Tajeddin & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

February 2019

15

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

Reza Yoosefi & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

November 2018

16

modeling and control of multiple aerial robots in cooperative load manipulation

Ali Golesorkh & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

September 2018

17

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

Ali Chitsaz & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

September 2018

18

Flying wing MIMO control with reseet to minimums effort strategy

Mostafa Salimi & Seyed Majid Esmailifar

February 2018

Journal Papers

Portal Records

1

S. Naveen Venkatesh, B. Rebecca Jeyavadhanam, Amir Mohammad Moradi Sizkouhi, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Mohammadreza Aghaei, V. Sugumaran, "Automatic detection of visual faults on photovoltaic modules using deep ensemble learning network", Energy Reports, November 2022 Vol. 8, Num. 8, Page 14382-14395, November 2022,

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Sepehr Saadat, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Fariborz Masroor, "Design of a Hybrid Heavy Multirotor with Long Range and High Payload Carrying Capacity for Using in Disaster Management", , August 2022 Vol. 11, Num. 1, Page 61-78, August 2022,

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Hamed Mohammadkarimi, Hadi Nobahari, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Saeid Mozafari, "A new Analytical Method to improve Attitude correction in Inertial Navigation Systems", AUT Journal of Modeling and Simulation, June 2022 Vol. 54, Num. 1, Page 1-6, June 2022,

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Amir Mohammad Moradi Sizkouhi, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Mohammadreza Aghaei, Mahdi Karimkhani, "RoboPV: An integrated software package for autonomous aerial monitoring of large scale PV plants", ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, February 2022 Vol. 254, Num. 115217, Page 1-15, February 2022,

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Mohammad Mousavi, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Mohammad Chiniforoushan, "Time-optimal Control of Spacecraft Rotational and Translational Dynamics in Orbital Rendezvous Maneuver", , February 2022 Vol. 1, Num. 2, Page 147-166, February 2022,

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Amir Mohammad Moradi Sizkouhi, Mohammadreza Aghaei, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, "A deep convolutional encoder-decoder architecture for autonomous fault detection of PV plants using multi-copters", SOLAR ENERGY, May 2021 Vol. 223, Num. 223, Page 217-228, May 2021,

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Pegah Abdollahzadeh, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, "Automatic orbital docking with tumbling target using sliding mode control", ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, March 2021 Vol. 67, Num. 5, Page 1506-1525, March 2021,

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Amir Mohammad Moradi Sizkouhi, Mohammadreza Aghaei, Seyed Majid 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, July 2020 Vol. 10, Num. 4, Page 1061-1067, July 2020,

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Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Fariborz Saghafi, "Cooperative localization of marine targets by UAVs", MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, March 2017 Vol. 87, Num. 1, Page 23-42, March 2017,

Conference Papers

Portal Records

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Amir Mohammad Moradi Sizkouhi, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Mahdi 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, September 2022

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Ali Ashrafi, Seyed Majid 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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Seiedmahdi Hashemi, Reza Jahantigh, , Seyed Majid Esmailifar, "Intelligent ATC modeling by indoor navigation ", The 18th International Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society, February 2020

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Reza Jahantigh, Seyed Majid 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, February 2020

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Mortaza Salehian, Hamid Reza Ovesy, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Masood Yousefi, "vibration attenuation of rotating laminated composite fan blade beam using piezoelectric patches ", 18th int. conference of iranian aerospace society, February 2020

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Amir Mohammad Moradi Sizkouhi, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Mohammadreza Aghaei, Aline Kirsten Vidal De Oliveira, Ricardo Rüther, "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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Reza Soltani Najad, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, "Systematic review of AHRS sensors and their calibration ", 17th Int. conference of iranian aerospace society, June 2018

8

Mona Derakhshan, Seyed Majid Esmailifar, "Simulation of a parachute landing on the surface of Mars ", 17th Int. conference of iranian aerospace society, June 2018

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Seyed Majid Esmailifar, Florian Poschke, Eckhard Gauterin, Horst Schulte, "Particle Filter Design for Effective Wind Speed Estimation of Wind Turbines ", The 2018 annual American Control Conference, June 2018

Taught Courses

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Course title

Description

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1

Flight Mechanics (I)

Performance analysis of aircrafts such as flight envelope, rate of climb, flight ceiling and etc.

Spring 2023

2

Automatic Control

The main goal of this course is to introduce linear time invariant systems which covers more than 90 percent of engineering systems and learn to design classic controllers.

Spring 2023

3

Guidance & Navigation (II)

Designing guidance laws and algorithms for flying vehicles

Spring 2023

4

Automatic Control

The main goal of this course is to introduce linear time invariant systems which covers more than 90 percent of engineering systems and learn to design classic controllers.

Fall 2022

5

Advanced Mathematics (I)

The main goal of this course is to introduce mathematical tools that are necessary for aerospace mechanics and control.

Fall 2022

6

Automatic Control

The main goal of this course is to introduce linear time invariant systems which covers more than 90 percent of engineering systems and learn to design classic controllers.

Spring 2022

7

Guidance & Navigation (II)

Designing guidance laws and algorithms for flying vehicles

Spring 2022

8

Special Topics (Cooperative Control in Aerospace Systems)

introduction to cooperative control and its application in aerospace applications

Fall 2021

9

Flight Mechanics (I)

Performance analysis of aircrafts such as flight envelope, rate of climb, flight ceiling and etc.

Fall 2021

10

Advanced Mathematics (I)

The main goal of this course is to introduce mathematical tools that are necessary for aerospace mechanics and control.

Fall 2021