Farhad Bayat

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Farhad Bayat is a leading researcher in robotics and control systems, whose work bridges theoretical rigor with real-world application. His primary research areas include mobile robot path planning, non-holonomic system control, and robust control for complex, time-delayed systems. Bayat’s most influential contribution is his electrostatic potential field approach for mobile robot path planning, which has garnered 115 citations and offers a novel, efficient solution to navigation challenges. He has also made significant strides in finite-time tracking control for non-holonomic systems, a paper cited 73 times, addressing disturbances in systems like unmanned vehicles. His work on robust control for discrete-time descriptor systems with multiple time-varying delays (23 citations) is critical for spacecraft, electrical networks, and robotic systems, where time delays can destabilize performance. More recently, Bayat has explored human-robot interaction through a case study on robot acceptance and adoption (11 citations), and advanced prosthetic leg control using nonsingular terminal sliding algorithms (21 citations). His 2025 paper on resilient event-triggered H∞ control for cyber-physical systems under hybrid attacks demonstrates his forward-looking focus on security. With a career spanning foundational theory to cutting-edge applications, Bayat’s research continues to shape autonomous systems and control engineering.

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1. 1
   Mobile robots path planning: Electrostatic potential field approach

   115 citations · 2018
2. 2
   Finite-time tracking control of n th-order chained-form non-holonomic systems in the presence of disturbances

   73 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Robust global controller design for discrete‐time descriptor systems with multiple time‐varying delays

   23 citations · 2020
4. 4
   A nonsingular terminal sliding algorithm for swing and stance control of a prosthetic leg robot

   21 citations · 2022
5. 5
   On robot acceptance and adoption a case study

   11 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Method for Undershoot-Less Control of Non-Minimum Phase Plants Based on Partial Cancellation of the Non-Minimum Phase Zero: Application to Flexible-Link Robots

   4 citations · 2013
7. 7
   Cyber-physical systems under hybrid cyber-attacks: Resilient event-triggered <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si0030.svg"><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="bold-italic">H</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>∞</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:math> control approach

   2 citations · 2025

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