CIE Dept in association with KIKX presents a Seminar on "Interactive Aerial Robots – A Geometric Port-Hamiltonian Framework" by Dr Ramy Rashad, an assistant professor at CIE Dept, on Thursday, 10 OCT 2024 at 1pm in Bld. 22 room 119

Speaker:

Dr. Ramy Rashad

Assistant Professor

Control and Instrumentation Engineering Department

Abstract:

Whether fixed to the ground, moving in a room, swimming in water, or flying in the air, robots inherently interact with their environment in a bilateral manner. From a system theoretic perspective, we cannot simply consider the environment as a source of disturbance that we should reject, but instead, it is an essential ingredient in simulating and controlling interactive robots. The main theme of my research is using energy and geometry for the modelling, simulation and control of interactive robots using the geometric port-Hamiltonian framework. In this seminar, I will discuss how the port-Hamiltonian framework applies to two emerging fields of aerial robotics: aerial physical interaction and bio-inspired flapping flight.

Speaker Bio :

Dr. Ramy Rashad is an Assistant Professor in the Control and Instrumentation Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in 2013 and Master’s Degree in 2015 from the German University in Cairo and his Ph.D. from the University of Twente (UTwente), The Netherlands in 2021. He worked for three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Robotics and Mechatronics Lab at UTwente and was a finalist for the George Giralt PhD Award (2022). His research interests include geometric modelling, simulation and control of aerial manipulators, and port-Hamiltonian systems theory in general.