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Md Muzakkir Quamar

PhD Student

Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ali Nasir

Dissertation Title: Fault and Resource Aware Mission Planning and Management of Multi-UAV System Under Random Threat Using Markov Decision Process

Research areas:

  • Fault-tolerant autonomous systems
  • Multi-UAV coordination and formation control
  • Mission planning and management
  • Markov decision processes and sequential decision-making
  • Dynamic task allocation
  • Obstacle avoidance and intelligent navigation
  • Reinforcement Learning

Teaching Assistant Assignment:

  • CIE 412- Mechatronics
  • CIE 204 – Digital System Design

Publications:

  1. Resilient UAV Mission Management in Threat-Prone Environments using Markov Decision Processes. MM Quamar, A Nasir. 2026 American Control Conference (ACC), 1757-1762
  2. A Novel MDP Decomposition Framework for Scalable UAV Mission Planning in Complex and Uncertain Environments. MM Quamar, A Nasir, S Elferik. Vehicular Communications, 101036
  3. Decentralized adaptive control of multi-UAV formation in urban mobility with obstacle avoidance. MM Quamar, JU Yahaya, S El-Ferik. Transportation Research Procedia 96, 588-595
  4. Control strategies for reverse osmosis desalination powered by photovoltaic systems: A comprehensive review. A Hennache, MM Quamar, KA Khan, M Alqahtani, I Ahmed, M Khalid. Energy Strategy Reviews 62, 101944
  5. Fault tolerant mission management for UAV under random threat using Markov decision process. MM Quamar, A Nasir, S ELFerik. Vehicular Communications, 100959
  6. Data-driven integrated sensing and communication: Recent advances, challenges, and future prospects. H Salem, H Sadia, MDM Quamar, A Magad, M Elrashidy, N Saeed, ...ICT Express
  7. Advancing Drone Autonomy: A Comprehensive Framework for Agile Controller Design in Quadcopters. SJ Ahmed Waheed, Zakria Toor, Md Muzakkir Quamar. Transportation Research Procedia 84 (2025), 487-494
  8. A Variable Power Surface Error Function backstepping based Dynamic Surface Control of Non-Lower Triangular Nonlinear Systems. AN Abubakar, A Nasir, MM Quamar. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02473
  9. A Variable Power Surface Error Function backstepping based Dynamic Surface Control of Non-Lower Triangular Nonlinear Systems. A Nafiu Abubakar, A Nasir, M Muzakkir Quamar. arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2409.02473
  10. IoT Based Control of Robotic Manipulator using Arbotix-M Microcontroller. A Urooj, MM Quamar, AWA Saif. 2023 20th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD)
Md Muzakkir Quamar

PhD Student