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Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie

Assistant Professor

I am passionate about Reinforcement Learning and Control theory. I would like to explore these two fields and find their connection.

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I am passionate about Reinforcement Learning and Control theory. I would like to explore these two fields and find their connection.

Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Continuous State and Action Space

In this project, I develop RL techniques for dynamical systems with continuous state and action space. I consider dynamical uncertainty and I use robust and stochastic control theories along with adaptive dynamic programming approaches to develop RL algorithms for dynamics systems with uncertainty.

Multi-agent Systems

During my Ph.D., my research study focused on distributed control of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems. More specifically, I obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for a group of linear heterogeneous agents to achieve a desired collective behavior like output regulation, $H_{\infty}$ output regulation, bipartite output regulation, multi-party output regulation and formation control. I also developed RL techniques for distributed control of multi-agent systems.

SLAM and Mobile Robot Navigation

I am also interested in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) in Dynamic Environment Using Grid Based Map. During my master's study, I worked on navigation of a nonholonomic mobile robot in dynamic environment. The primal task of the robot was to do SLAM in a dynamic environment and for this purpose, I proposed algorithms to distinguish between dynamic and static obstacles, and to re-do path planning.

Education

I received my bachelor and master's degrees from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2009 and 2011. In 2013, I joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore as a Ph.D. Student and I received my Ph.D. degree with the "Best Thesis award" in 2017.

Ph.D., Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Master Degree, Electrical Engineering, Control
K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Bachelor Degree, Electrical Engineering, Control
K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Hamidreza Modares, Fredrik Gustafsson,  Reinforcement Learning for Partially Observable Linear Gaussian Systems Using Batch Dynamics of Noisy Observations, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 69:6397-6404 (2024)  https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2024.3385680

Amir Modares, Nasser Sadati, Babak Esmaeili, Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Hamidreza Modares,  Safe Reinforcement Learning via a Model-Free Safety Certifier, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 35:3302-3311 (2024)  https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3264815

Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Fredrik Gustafsson, Lennart Ljung,  Linear Quadratic Control Using Model-Free Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 68:737-752 (2023)  https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2022.3145632

Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Hamidreza Modares,  Online Optimal Tracking of Linear Systems with Adversarial Disturbances, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2023)

Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Fredrik Gustafsson,  Using Reinforcement Learning for Model-free Linear Quadratic Control with Process and Measurement Noises, 2019 IEEE 58TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6510-6517, IEEE (2019)  https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029904

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