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Dr Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

Professor

Office: 23/056

Phone: +966 13 860 5848

Email: aameriqbal.bhatti(at)kfupm.edu.sa

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Education

  • Phd in Control Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K., 1998
  • MS in Control Systems, Imperial College London, London, U.K., 1994
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, 1993

Teaching

  • Linear Circuit Analysis (UG)
  • Linear Algebra (UG)
  • Control Systems (UG)
  • Systems Biology
  • Sliding Mode Control
  • Advanced Nonlinear Control
  • LMI in Controls
  • Nonlinear Control
  • Robust Control
  • Optimization Techniques
  • State Space Analysis
  • Advanced Signal Processing
  • Radar Signal Processing
  • Adaptive Filters
  • Linear Systems

Research Interests

  • Systems Biology
  • Aircraft Control
  • EV Control
  • Automotive Control
  • Radar Signal Processing
  • Control System

Journal Publications

Control Systems

  1. Imran Khan Yousufzai, Farrukh Waheed, Qudrat Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Rahat Ullah, and Rini Akmeliawati. A linear parameter varying strategy based integral sliding mode control protocol development and its implementation on ball and beam balancer. IEEE Access, 9:74437–74445, 2021.
  2. Safeer Ullah, Qudrat Khan, Adeel Mehmood, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Robust backstepping sliding mode control design for a class of underactuated electro–mechanical nonlinear systems. Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, 15(4):1821–1828, 2020.
  3. Adnan Jafar, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Sarvat M Ahmad, and Nisar Ahmed. H∞ optimization-based robust decoupling control algorithm in linear parameter varying systems using hadamard weighting. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 41(7):1833–1848, 2019.
  4. Muhammad Asad, Muhammad Ashraf, Sohail Iqbal, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Chattering and stability analysis of the sliding mode control using inverse hyperbolic function. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 15(6):2608–2618, 2017.
  5. Yasir Awais Butt, Yuri L Sachkov, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Cut locus and optimal synthesis in sub-riemannian problem on the lie group SH (2). Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 23(1):155–195, 2017. 7/19
  6. Qudrat Khan, Rini Akmeliawati, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Mahmood Ashraf Khan. Robust stabilization of underactuated nonlinear systems: A fast terminal sliding mode approach. ISA transactions, 66:241–248, 2017.
  7. Imran Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Ali Arshad, and Qudrat Khan. Robustness and performance parameterization of smooth second order sliding mode control. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 14(3):681– 690, 2016.
  8. Muhammad Asad, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Sohail Iqbal, and Yame Asfia. A smooth integral sliding mode controller and disturbance estimator design. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 13(6):1326–1336, 2015.
  9. Yasir Awais Butt, Yuri L Sachkov, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Extremal trajectories and maxwell strata in subriemannian problem on group of motions of pseudo-euclidean plane. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 20(3):341–364, 2014.
  10. M Pervaiz, Q Khan, AI Bhatti, and SA Malik. Output tracking via adaptive backstepping higher order integral sliding mode for uncertain nonlinear systems. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2014, 2014.
  11. Niaz Mehdi, Muhammad Rehan, Fahad Mumtaz Malik, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Muhammad Tufail. A novel anti-windup framework for cascade control systems: An application to underactuated mechanical systems. ISA transactions, 53(3):802–815, 2014.
  12. Mahmood Pervaiz, Qudrat Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Shahzad Ahmed Malik. Dynamical adaptive integral sliding backstepping control of nonlinear nontriangular uncertain systems. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014, 2014.
  13. Qudrat Khan and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Robust dynamic integral sliding mode for MIMO nonlinear systems operating under matched and unmatched uncertainties. Control Engineering and applied informatics, 16(4):107–117, 2014.
  14. Qudrat Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Muhammad Iqbal, and Qadeer Ahmed. Dynamic integral sliding mode control for SISO uncertain nonlinear systems. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 8(7):4621–4633, 2012.
  15. Qudrat Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Sohail Iqbal, and Mohammad Iqbal. Dynamic integral sliding mode for MIMO uncertain nonlinear systems. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 9(1):151–160, 2011.
  16. Sohail Iqbal and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Load varying polytopic based robust controller design in LMI framework for a 2DOF stabilized platform. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 36(2):311–327, 2011.
  17. Muhammad Iqbal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Sohail Iqbal Ayubi, and Qudrat Khan. Robust parameter estimation of nonlinear systems using sliding-mode differentiator observer. IEEE Transactions on industrial electronics, 58(2):680–689, 2010.
  18. AI Bhatti, SK Spurgeon, and XY Lu. A nonlinear sliding mode control design approach based on neural network modelling. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control: IFAC-Affiliated Journal, 9(7):397–423, 1999.

Automotive Systems

  1. A. Hanif H. Muazzam, M. K. Ishak and A. I. Bhatti. Design and analysis of linear parameter varying control for ipmsm using new european driving cycle. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng., 2022.
  2. Raheel Anjum, Qadeer Ahmed, Ahmed Yar, and A I Bhatti. Framework for fault tolerant speed tracking control of gasoline engine using first principle based engine model. Journal of Control and Decision, 2022.
  3. H Muazzam, M K Ishak, A Hanif, A A Uppal, A I Bhatti, and N A M V Isa. Virtual sensor using a super twisting algorithm based uniform robust exact differentiator for electric vehicles. Energies, 15:1773, 2022.
  4. Hassam Muazzam, Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Athar Hanif, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Compensating thermal derated torque of ipmsm centric electric vehicles. IEEE Access, 10:24468–24480, 2022. 8/19
  5. Hafiz Muhammad Yasir Naeem, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Yasir Awais Butt, and Qadeer Ahmed. Eco-driving control of electric vehicle with battery dynamic model and multiple traffic signals. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, page 09544070211037468, 2021.
  6. Athar Hanif, Qadeer Ahmed, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Giorgio Rizzoni. A unified control framework for traction machine drive using linear parameters varying-based field-oriented control. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 142(10):101006, 2020.
  7. Malik Kamal Mazhar, Muhammad Jawad Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Noman Naseer. A novel roll and pitch estimation approach for a ground vehicle stability improvement using a low cost IMU. Sensors, 20(2):340, 2020.
  8. Raheel Anjum, Ahmed Yar, Ghulam Murtaza, Qadeer Ahmed, and Aamer I Bhatti. Model-based unified framework for detection and mitigation of cyclic torque imbalance in a gasoline engine. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 143(7):071013, 2021.
  9. Ghulam Murtaza, Aamir Iqbal Bhatti, and Yasir Awais Butt. Unified FDI and FTC scheme for air path actuators of a diesel engine using ISM extended with adaptive part. Asian Journal of Control, 22(1):117–129, 2020. [28] Ahmed Yar, AI Bhatti, and Qadeer Ahmed. First principle based control oriented gasoline engine model including lumped cylinder dynamics. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 140(8), 2018.
  10. Raheel Anjum, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Ahmed Yar, and Qadeer Ahmed. Cyclic torque imbalance detection in gasoline engines using a uniform second-order sliding mode observer. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 233(13):3515–3527, 2019.
  11. Athar Hanif, Aamer I Bhatti, and Qadeer Ahmed. Managing thermally derated torque of an electrified powertrain through LPV control. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 23(1):364–376, 2017.
  12. G Murtaza, AI Bhatti, and Q Ahmed. Design, development, and evaluation of a control framework for an atkinson cycle engine. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 140(5):051005, 2018.
  13. Ahmed Yar, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Qadeer Ahmed. First principle based control oriented model of a gasoline engine including multi-cylinder dynamics. Control Engineering Practice, 70:63–76, 2018.
  14. Ghulam Murtaza, Aamir I Bhatti, and Yasir A Butt. Super twisting controller-based unified FDI and FTC scheme for air path of diesel engine using the certainty equivalence principle. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 232(12):1623–1633, 2018.
  15. Ahmed Yar, A I Bhatti, and Qadeer Ahmed. First principle-based control oriented model of a gasoline engine. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 139(5), 2017.
  16. G Murtaza, AI Bhatti, and Q Ahmed. Control-oriented model of atkinson cycle engine with variable intake valve actuation. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 138(6), 2016.
  17. Muhammad Amin Akram, Muddassar Abbas Rizvi, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Nadhir Messai. Mode identification for hybrid model of SI engine to detect misfire fault. Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, 16(3):65–74, 2014.
  18. Qarab Raza Butt, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Mohammed Rafiq Mufti, Mudassar Abbas Rizvi, and Irfan Awan. Modeling and online parameter estimation of intake manifold in gasoline engines using sliding mode observer. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 32:138–154, 2013.
  19. Qadeer Ahmed, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Muddassar Abbas Rizvi, and Mohsin Raza. Gasoline engine air filter health monitoring by second-order sliding modes. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 27(6):447–461, 2013.
  20. Qadeer Ahmed, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Qudrat Khan, and Mohsin Raza. Condition monitoring of gasoline engine air intake system using second order sliding modes. International journal of vehicle design, 62(2-4):312–332, 2013.
  21. Qadeer Ahmed, Aamer Iqbal, Imtiaz Taj, and Khubaib Ahmed. Gasoline engine intake manifold leakage diagnosis/prognosis using hidden markov model. International Journal of Innovative Computing, 8(7):4661–4674, 2012. 9/19
  22. Muddassar Abbas Rizvi, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Qarab Raza Butt. Hybrid model of the gasoline engine for misfire detection. IEEE Transactions on industrial Electronics, 58(8):3680–3692, 2010. [42] Qadeer Ahmed and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Estimating SI engine efficiencies and parameters in second-order sliding modes. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58(10):4837–4846, 2010.
  23. Qadeer Ahmed, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Muhammad Iqbal. Virtual sensors for automotive engine sensors fault diagnosis in second-order sliding modes. IEEE Sensors Journal, 11(9):1832–1840, 2011.
  24. Qarab Raza Butt and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Estimation of gasoline-engine parameters using higher order sliding mode. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics, 55(11):3891–3898, 2008.
  25. Aamer I Bhatti, Sarah K Spurgeon, and Robert Dorey. Idle speed control of an automotive engine using a robust nonlinear controller–observer pair. European Journal of Control, 6(6):525–539, 2000.
  26. A I Bhatti, S K Spurgeon, R Dorey, and C Edwards. Sliding mode configurations for automotive engine control. International journal of adaptive control and signal processing, 13(2):49–69, 1999.

Energy Systems

  1. Abrar Hashmi, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Saira Ahmed, Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, and Andre Savitsky. Revisiting the indus basin model for an energy sustainable pakistan. Water, 14(5):702, 2022.
  2. Syed B Javed, Vadim I Utkin, Ali A Uppal, Raza Samar, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Data-driven modeling and design of multivariable dynamic sliding mode control for the underground coal gasification project thar. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2021.
  3. Mutahir Khattak, Ali Arshad Uppal, Qudrat Khan, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Yazan M Alsmadi, Vadim I Utkin, and Issac Chairez. Neuro-adaptive sliding mode control for underground coal gasification energy conversion process. International Journal of Control, pages 1–12, 2021.
  4. Rifat Ara, Umer Amir Khan, Aamir Iqbal Bhatti, and Bang Wook Lee. A reliable protection scheme for fast DC fault clearance in a VSC-based meshed MTDC grid. IEEE Access, 8:88188–88199, 2020.
  5. Syed Bilal Javed, Ali Arshad Uppal, Raza Samar, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Design and implementation of multi-variable h∞ robust control for the underground coal gasification project thar. Energy, 216:119000, 2021.
  6. Abdul Rehman Yasin, Muhammad Ashraf, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Fixed frequency sliding mode control of power converters for improved dynamic response in DC micro-grids. Energies, 11(10):2799, 2018.
  7. Abdul Rehman Yasin, Muhammad Ashraf, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Ali Arshad Uppal. Fixed frequency sliding mode control of renewable energy resources in DC micro grid. Asian Journal of Control, 21(4):2074–2086, 2019.
  8. Syed Bilal Javed, Ali Arshad Uppal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Raza Samar. Prediction and parametric analysis of cavity growth for the underground coal gasification project thar. Energy, 172:1277–1290, 2019.
  9. Afraz Mehmood Chaudhry, Ali Arshad Uppal, Yazan M Alsmadi, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Vadim I Utkin. Robust multi-objective control design for underground coal gasification energy conversion process. International Journal of Control, 93(2):328–335, 2020.
  10. Muhammad Rashad, Muhammad Ashraf, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Daud Mustafa Minhas. Mathematical modeling and stability analysis of DC microgrid using SM hysteresis controller. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 95:507–522, 2018.
  11. Ali A Uppal, Yazan M Alsmadi, Vadim I Utkin, Aamer I Bhatti, and Shahid A Khan. Sliding mode control of underground coal gasification energy conversion process. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 26(2):587–598, 2017.
  12. Ali Arshad Uppal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Erum Aamir, Raza Samar, and Shahid Ahmed Khan. Optimization and control of one dimensional packed bed model of underground coal gasification. Journal of Process Control, 35:11–20, 2015. 10/19
  13. Ali Arshad Uppal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Erum Aamir, Raza Samar, and Shahid Ahmed Khan. Control oriented modeling and optimization of one dimensional packed bed model of underground coal gasification. Journal of Process Control, 24(1):269–277, 2014.
  14. Safdar Hussain, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Abdus Samee, and S Hameed Qaiser. Estimation of precursor density of a power reactor using uniform second order sliding mode observer. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 54:233–239, 2013.
  15. Safdar Hussain, A I Bhatti, Abdus Samee, and S Hameed Qaiser. Estimation of reactivity and average fuel temperature of a pressurized water reactor using sliding mode differentiator observer. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 60(4):3025–3032, 2013.
  16. Ijaz Hussain Kazmi and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Parameter estimation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell system using sliding mode observer. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 8(7B):5137–5148, 2012.
  17. Syed Hameed Qaiser, Masood Iqbal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Raza Samar, and Javed Qadir. Estimation of reactivity in a research reactor by using a second-order sliding mode observer. Nuclear science and engineering, 172(3):327–336, 2012.
  18. SH Qaiser, A I Bhatti, Masood Iqbal, R Samar, and J Qadir. Model validation and higher order sliding mode controller design for a research reactor. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 36(1):37–45, 2009.
  19. S Hameed Qaiser, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Masood Iqbal, Raza Samar, and Javed Qadir. Estimation of precursor concentration in a research reactor by using second order sliding mode observer. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 239(10):2134–2140, 2009.

Systems Biology

  1. Muhammad Suleman Awan, Maria Aslam, Muwahida Liaquat, AI Bhatti, and Afrose Liaquat. Effect of pharmacodynamical interaction between nutlin-3a and aspirin in the activation of p53. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 522:110696, 2021.
  2. Sheher Bano, Muhammad Rizwan Azam, Ali Arshad Uppal, Syed Bilal Javed, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Robust p53 recovery using chattering free sliding mode control and a gain-scheduled modified utkin observer. Journal of theoretical biology, 532:110914, 2022.
  3. Attiya Kanwal, Sahar Fazal, Aamir Iqbal Bhatti, Mukhar Ullah, and Muhammad Arslan Khalid. Pubmedinfo crawler: An innovative extraction process that leads towards biological information mining. Meta Gene, 20:100550, 2019.
  4. Muhammad Tahir Khan, Aman Chandra Kaushik, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Yu-Juan Zhang, Shulin Zhang, Amie Jinghua Wei, Shaukat Iqbal Malik, and Dong Qing Wei. Marine natural products and drug resistance in latent tuberculosis. Marine drugs, 17(10):549, 2019.
  5. Muhammad Rizwan Azam, Sahar Fazal, Mukhtar Ullah, and Aamer I Bhatti. System-based strategies for p53 recovery. IET systems biology, 12(3):101–107, 2018.
  6. MT Khan, S I Malik, A I Bhatti, S Ali, A S Khan, M T Zeb, T Nadeem, and S Fazal. Pyrazinamide-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from khyber pakhtunkhwa and rpsa mutations. J. Biol. Regul. Homeost. Agents, 32:705–709, 2018.
  7. Anum Munir, Shumaila Azam, Sahar Fazal, and AI Bhatti. Evaluation of the whole body physiologically based pharmacokinetic (WB-PBPK) modeling of drugs. Journal of theoretical biology, 451:1–9, 2018.
  8. Faryal Khattak, Muhammad Haseeb, Sahar Fazal, A I Bhatti, and Mukhtar Ullah. Mathematical modeling of e6-p53 interactions in cervical cancer. Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention: APJCP, 18(4):1057, 2017.
  9. Muhammad Haseeb, Shumaila Azam, AI Bhatti, Rizwan Azam, Mukhtar Ullah, and Sahar Fazal. On p53 revival using system oriented drug dosage design. Journal of theoretical biology, 415:53–57, 2017. 11/19

Aerospace Systems

  1. Zohaib Latif, Amir Shahzad, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, James Ferris Whidborne, and Raza Samar. Autonomous landing of an UAV using h∞ base model predictive control. Drones, 2022. [76] Sidra Ghayour Bhatti, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, and Usman Zafar. Phase based feature extraction for intrapulse modulation recognition of radar waveforms. IEEE Access, 2022.
  2. Ahmed Mahmood, F U Rehman, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. trajectory optimization of subsonic unpowered gliding vehicle using control vector parameterization. Drones, 6(11), 2022.
  3. Sidra Ghayour Bhatti and Aamir Iqbal Bhatti. Radar signal intrapulse modulation recognition using phase-based STFT and BiLSTM. IEEE Access, 10:80184–80194, 2022.
  4. Adnan Jafar, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Sarvat M Ahmad, and Nisar Ahmed. Robust gain-scheduled linear parametervarying control algorithm for a lab helicopter: a linear matrix inequality–based approach. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 232(5):558–571, 2018.
  5. Syed Ussama Ali, Raza Samar, M Zamurad Shah, Aamer I Bhatti, and Khalid Munawar. Higher-order sliding mode based lateral guidance for unmanned aerial vehicles. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 39(5):715–727, 2017.
  6. Syed Ussama Ali, Raza Samar, M Zamurad Shah, Aamer I Bhatti, Khalid Munawar, and Ubaid M Al-Sggaf. Lateral guidance and control of UAVs using second-order sliding modes. Aerospace Science and Technology, 49:88–100, 2016.
  7. Muhammad Zamurad Shah, Raza Samar, and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti. Guidance of air vehicles: A sliding mode approach. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 23(1):231–244, 2014.
  8. M Zamurad Shah, Raza Samar, and Aamer I Bhatti. Lateral track control of UAVs using the sliding mode approach: from design to flight testing. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 37(4):457–474, 2015.
  9. Irfan Ahmad and A I Bhatti. A novel technique for spectral processing of a fiber optic gyroscope. Kuwait Journal of Science, 37(1B):49–68, 2010.
Dr Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

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