Mahmoud Abdelgalil
PhD
Journal Publications
- M. Abdelgalil and T. T. Georgiou, "Control of the State Transition Matrix via Factorization Into Positive Definite Factors," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 10, 2026, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2026.3715083.
- M. Abdelgalil and T. T. Georgiou, "The Holonomy of Optimal Mass Transport: The Gaussian-Linear Case," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 71, 2026, doi:10.1109/TAC.2025.3598675.
- M. Tang, M. Abdelgalil and J. I. Poveda, "A Separation Principle for Stochastic Feedback Optimization," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 10, 2026, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2026.3704531.
- M. Abdelgalil and J. I. Poveda, "Persistently resetting integrators for gradient learning: A framework for model-free feedback optimization," in Automatica, vol. 190, 2026, doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2026.113047
- M. Abdelgalil and T. T. Georgiou, "Collective Steering in Finite Time: Controllability on GL+(n,R)" in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2025.3574186.
- M. Abdelgalil and J. I. Poveda, "On Lie-Bracket Averaging for Hybrid Dynamical Systems With Applications to Model-Free Control and Optimization," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2025.3529375.
- M. Abdelgalil, D. E. Ochoa, and Jorge I. Poveda, "Multi-time scale control and optimization via averaging and singular perturbation theory: From ODEs to hybrid dynamical systems," in Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 56, 2023, doi:10.1016/j.arcontrol.2023.100926
- M. Abdelgalil, Y. Aboelkassem, and H. Taha, "Sea urchin sperm exploit extremum seeking control to find the egg," in Physical Review E, vol. 106, 2022, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L062401
- M. Abdelgalil and H. Taha, "Recursive Averaging With Application to Bio-Inspired 3-D Source Seeking," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3178142.
Conference Proceedings
- X. Zhang, M. Abdelgalil and J. I. Poveda, "Source-Seekers with Obstacle Avoidance for Nonholonomic Vehicles with Perception: A Model-Free Geometric Hybrid Control Approach," 2026 American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2026, pp. 1853-1859.
- M. Abdelgalil and J. I. Poveda, "On Event-Triggered Extremum Seeking via Standard and Lie-Bracket Averaging: A Hybrid Dynamical Systems Approach," 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 2244-2249, doi: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11313026.
- M. Abdelgalil and T. T. Georgiou, "Control of the State-transition via State-Feedback," 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, pp. 1816-1821, doi: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11313016.
- A. Eldesoukey, M. Abdelgalil and T. T. Georgiou, "Collective Steering: Tracer-Informed Dynamics," 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025, doi: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312474.
- M. Abdelgalil, A. Eldesoukey and H. Taha, "Singularly Perturbed Averaging with Application to Bio-Inspired 3D Source Seeking," 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2023, doi: 10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156319.