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Work History

CASPR, M.A.Jinnah University

Islamabad, Pakistan
Jul 2009 - Present
Team Lead 

o        Automotive Fault Prognostics

  • Automotive Engine Modeling
  • Development of Fault Diagnostics /Prognostics Algorithms
Islamabad, Pakistan
May 2007 - May 2009
Research Assistant 

o        Helicopter Control:

  • Mathematical Modeling & Analysis
  • Developed Robust Control Algorithms to handle cross-couplings and parametric uncertainties in helicopter dynamics.
  • Designed and Implemented Controllers
    • H∞ Controller with Traditional Weights
    • H∞ Controller with Hadamard Weights
    • Sliding Mode Controller
    • 2nd Order Sliding Mode Controller

o      Obstacle Avoiding Robot:

  • Linear Model Identification
  • Designed and Implemented Controller to deliver results in LABVIEW

o      Control Engineering Lab

  • Designed & Developed Control Engineering Lab Course Work
  • Conducted labs on designed course work

o      Co-Supervised Under-Graduate Projects

 

  • Trajectory Control of Robotic Arm
  • Implementation of Parking Robot Algorithms
  • Tele-Robotics using LEGO Mindstorm  

Research Interests

  • Robust Control
  • Nonlinear Control
  • Sliding Mode Control
  • Fault Diagostics/Prognostics

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • System Identification
  • Linear/Nonlinear Controller Design
  • Microcontroller Programming
  • PLC Programming

Education

M.A.Jinnah University

Islamabad, Pakistan
Jun 2007 - Jun 2009
M.S , Control systems <CGPA 3.54>

University of Engineering & Technology

Lahore, Pakistan
Jan 2003 - Jan 2007
B.Sc , Mechatronics and Control Engineering <83%>

Cadet College Hasanabdal

Hasanabdal, Pakistan
Aug 2000 - Jul 2002
F.Sc, Pre Engineering <82%>

Skills

MATLAB

(Advanced)
1-2 Years Experience, (Last Used <1 year ago)
Skillometer_3

LABView

(Intermediate)
<1 Years Experience, (Last Used <1 year ago)
Skillometer_2

C++

(Advanced)
1-2 Years Experience, (Last Used 1-2 years ago)
Skillometer_3

Pro-Engineer

(Advanced)
1-2 Years Experience, (Last Used 1-2 years ago)
Skillometer_3

Mathematica

(Beginner)
<1 Years Experience, (Last Used <1 year ago)
Skillometer_1

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS:

  • Selected for Young Author program from International Federation of Automatic Control, World Congress, 2008, Seoul, Korea.
  • Selected for Student Award from Conference of Control Application, 2009 St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Among top ten students in Engineering tenure.

 

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS:

 

  • Q. Ahmed, A. I. Bhatti, S. Iqbal, Robust Decoupled control for 2-DOF Helicopter using Hadamard Weights, submitted in IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology.
  • R. Doraiswami, L. Cheded, Haris M. Khalid, Q. Ahmed, A. Khoukhi, Robust control of a closed-loop identified system with parametric/model uncertainties and external disturbance, to be presented in ISMS2010, Liverpool, UK Download 
  • Q. Ahmed, A. I. Bhatti, M. A Rizvi, LMI Based Sliding Mode Control Design for Twin Rotor System to be presented in SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications 2009, Colorado, USA.
  • Q. Ahmed, A. I. Bhatti, S. Iqbal Nonlinear Robust control design for Decoupling of Twin Rotor System to be presented in Asian Control Conference (ASCC'09), Hong Kong. Download
  • Q. Ahmed , A. I. Bhatti, S. Iqbal, Robust Decoupling Control Design for Twin Rotor System using Hadamard Weights, to be presented in CCA, MSC 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia Download
  • S. Iqbal, A. I. Bhatti, Q. Ahmed, Dynamic Analysis and Robust Control of the Stewart Platform with Moving Payloads, Proc. of IFAC, WC 2008, 6-11 July, Seoul, Korea. Download
  • S. Iqbal, A. I. Bhatti, Q. Ahmed, Determination of Realistic Uncertainty Bounds for the Stewart Platform with Payload  Dynamics, Proc. of CCA, MSC 2008, 3-5 Sep. Texas, USA Download
  • Q. Ahmed, A. I. Bhatti Exploring LEGO Robotics to Deliver Insights into Control Systems, presentation in Robotics Educators Conference 2008, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy. 

 

 

Co-Supervised Projects

Parking Robot

Yahoo_32
Implementation of Parking Robot Algorithms
 

Robotic Arm

Yahoo_32
Trajectory Control of Robotic Arm
 

My Gadgets

2-DOF Helicopter

Twin rotor MIMO system
Test bench for my Robust controllers
 

LYNX 6

LYNX 6
Serial Robotic Arm used for Trajectory controls Project
 

Obstacle avoiding robot

Obstacle avoiding robot
Developed for Control Engineering Lab course work
 

NXT Robot

NXT Gadget
Used for Tele-robotics & Parking Robot
 

MS Thesis

Robust Control Algorithms for Twin Rotor System

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Download

This thesis deals with robust control strategies from linear and nonlinear techniques for helicopter system. This system is prone to highly disturbing interstate cross-couplings and perturbations in center of gravity that affects smooth flights. The presented controllers offer solutions for smooth tracking in presence of strong cross-couplings and disturbing torques caused by perturbation in center of gravity. The H∞ controller employed from linear robust control theory involves traditional and Hadamard weights in controller synthesis process. However the designed controller works for linear range only and robustness is achieved at the cost of performance or vice versa. The second attempt involves the sliding mode controllers from nonlinear theory. This technique delivers solution against cross-couplings and disturbing torques caused by variation in center of gravity is solved by using 2-sliding mode controller. These nonlinear controllers control the system in nonlinear range. Meanwhile an attempt to design sliding surface from Linear Matrix inequalities algorithms delivers the solution which is not suitable for practical implementation. The designed controllers are validated by implementing on helicopter model, after successful numerical simulations.   

 

Gadget Videos

H-Infinity based Robust control of 2-DOF Helicopter

MS thesis Implementation Results

Stewart Platform Dynamical Analysis

Pro-Engineer based simulation for Stewart platform Dynamical Analysis (Presented at IFAC, WC 2008)

My Publications

Robust Decoupling Control Design for Twin Rotor System using Hadamard Weights

Small heli

Presentation @ Conference of Control Applications, MSC 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia

Nonlinear Robust Decoupling Control Design for Twin Rotor System

Small heli

Presentation @ Asian Control Conference (ASCC'09), Hong Kong

LMI Based Sliding Mode Control Design for Twin Rotor System

Small heli

Presentation @ SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications 2009, Colorado, USA.

Determination of Realistic Uncertainty Bounds for the Stewart Platform with Payload Dynamics

hxpd

Presentation @ International Fedration of Automatic Control, World Congress 2008, Seoul, Korea.

Dynamic Analysis and Robust Control Design for Stewart Platform with Moving Payloads

hxpd

Presentation @ Conference of Control Applications, MSC 2008, Texas, USA

Exploring LEGO Robotics to Deliver Insights into Control Systems

Obstacle avoiding robot

Presentation @ Robotics Educators Conference 2008, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy