PEOPLE

Dr Ramy Rashad

Assistant Professor

Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Smart Mobility & Logistics

Education

  • PhD in Robotics and Mechatronics, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2021
  • MS in Mechatronics Engineering, German University in Cairo, Egypt, 2015
  • BS in Mechatronics Engineering, German University in Cairo, Egypt, 2013

Teachings

  • CIE 410 Automation Devices and Electronics
  • CIE 482 Path Planning and Navigation for Mobile Robots
  • CIE 483 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Robots
  • CIE 594 Special Topic in Intelligent Automation and Robotics
  • Advanced Methods in Nonlinear Control
  • Signals and Systems
  • Fields and Electromagnetism
  • Modern Robotics
  • Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Control Engineering
  • Mechatronics Engineering
  • Modern Control
  • Power Electronics
  • Vibration of Structures
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Aerodynamics

Research Interests

  • Modeling, Simulation and Control of UAVs
  • Aerial Physical Interaction
  • Energy-Aware Robotics
  • Geometric Modeling
  • Structure-Preserving Discretization

Current Students

  1. Oumayma Haberchad (PhD Student)
  2. Fady Ashraf Sabry Eskandar (PhD Student)
  3. Tarek Eissa (PhD Student)
  4. Farooq Olanrewaju (PhD Student)
  5. Shajjad Dewan (MS Student)
  6. Muhammed Abdurrauf (MS Student)

Selected Publications

  1. Ran Jiao, Wenjie Liu, Ramy Rashad, Jianfeng Li, Mingjie Dong, Stefano Stramigioli (2024) A novel robotic system enabling multiple bilateral upper limb rehabilitation training via an admittance controller and force field, Mechatronics 97(November 2023), p. 103112, Elsevier Ltd, url, doi:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2023.103112
  2. Ran Jiao, Wenjie Liu, Ramy Rashad, Jianfeng Li, Mingjie Dong, Stefano Stramigioli (2024) A novel robotic system enabling multiple bilateral upper limb rehabilitation training via an admittance controller and force field, Mechatronics 97, p. 103112, url, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2023.103112
  3. Andrea Brugnoli, Ramy Rashad, Yi Zhang, Stefano Stramigioli (2023) Finite element hybridization of port-Hamiltonian systems, arXiv, arXiv, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2302.06239
  4. Ramy Rashad, Andrea Brugnoli, Federico Califano, Erwin Luesink, Stefano Stramigioli (2023) Intrinsic Nonlinear Elasticity: An Exterior Calculus Formulation, Journal of Nonlinear Science 33(5), Springer US, url, doi:10.1007/s00332-023-09945-7
  5. Ramy Rashad, Andrea Brugnoli, Federico Califano, Erwin Luesink, Stefano Stramigioli (2023) Intrinsic Nonlinear Elasticity: An Exterior Calculus Formulation, Journal of Nonlinear Science 33(5), p. 84, doi:10.1007/s00332-023-09945-7
  6. Federico Califano, Ramy Rashad, Cristian Secchi, Stefano Stramigioli (2023) On the Use of Energy Tanks for Robotic Systems, Human-Friendly Robotics 2022, Pablo Borja, Cosimo Della Santina, Luka Peternel, Elena Torta (ed.), p. 174-188, Cham: Springer International Publishing, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22731-8_13
  7. F. Califano, R. Rashad, S. Stramigioli (2022) A differential geometric description of thermodynamics in continuum mechanics with application to Fourier-Navier-Stokes fluids, Physics of Fluids 34(10), AIP Publishing LLC, doi:10.1063/5.0119517
  8. Youngsuk Hong, Ramy Rashad, Soocheol Noh, Taeyoon Lee, Stefano Stramigioli, Frank C. Park (2022) A geometric formulation of multirotor aerial vehicle dynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics 107(1), p. 495-513, Springer Netherlands, doi:10.1007/s11071-021-07042-6
  9. Youngsuk Hong, Ramy Rashad, Soocheol Noh, Taeyoon Lee, Stefano Stramigioli, Frank C. Park (2022) Correction to: A geometric formulation of multirotor aerial vehicle dynamics (Nonlinear Dynamics, (2022), 107, 1, (495-513), 10.1007/s11071-021-07042-6), Nonlinear Dynamics 108(3), p. 2851-2852, Springer Netherlands, url, doi:10.1007/s11071-022-07299-5
  10. Andrea Brugnoli, Ramy Rashad, Stefano Stramigioli (2022) Dual field structure-preserving discretization of port-Hamiltonian systems using finite element exterior calculus, Journal of Computational Physics 471, p. 111601, Elsevier Inc., doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111601
  11. Federico Califano, Ramy Rashad, Frederic P Schuller, Stefano Stramigioli (2022) Energetic decomposition of distributed systems with moving material domains: The port-Hamiltonian model of fluid-structure interaction, Journal of Geometry and Physics 175, p. 104477, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2022.104477
  12. Ramy Rashad, Davide Bicego, Jelle Zult, Santiago Sanchez-Escalonilla, Ran Jiao, Antonio Franchi, Stefano Stramigioli (2022) Energy Aware Impedance Control of a Flying End-Effector in the Port-Hamiltonian Framework, IEEE Transactions on Robotics 38(6), p. 3936-3955, IEEE, doi:10.1109/TRO.2022.3183532
  13. Federico Califano, Ramy Rashad, Alexander Dijkshoorn, Luuk Groot Koerkamp, Riccardo Sneep, Andrea Brugnoli, Stefano Stramigioli (2021) Decoding and realising flapping flight with port-Hamiltonian system theory, Annual Reviews in Control 51(March), p. 37-46, Elsevier Ltd, doi:10.1016/j.arcontrol.2021.03.009
  14. Ramy Rashad, Federico Califano, Andrea Brugnoli, Frederic P. Schuller, Stefano Stramigioli (2021) Exterior and vector calculus views of incompressible Navier-Stokes port-Hamiltonian models, IFAC-PapersOnLine 54(19), p. 173-179, Elsevier Ltd, doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.11.074
  15. Federico Califano, Ramy Rashad, Frederic P. Schuller, Stefano Stramigioli (2021) Geometric and energy-aware decomposition of the Navier-Stokes equations: A port-Hamiltonian approach, Physics of Fluids 33(4), AIP Publishing LLC, doi:10.1063/5.0048359
  16. Andrea Brugnoli, Ramy Rashad, Federico Califano, Stefano Stramigioli, Denis Matignon (2021) Mixed finite elements for port-Hamiltonian models of von Kármán beams, IFAC-PapersOnLine 54(19), p. 186-191, Elsevier Ltd, doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.11.076
  17. Ran Jiao, Ramy Rashad, Davide Bicego, Wusheng Chou, Stefano Stramigioli (2021) Observer-based Geometric Impedance Control of a Fully-Actuated Hexarotor for Physical Sliding Interaction with Unknown Generic Surfaces, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications 102(4), Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, doi:10.1007/s10846-021-01434-x
  18. Ramy Rashad, Federico Califano, Frederic P. Schuller, Stefano Stramigioli (2021) Port-Hamiltonian modeling of ideal fluid flow: Part I. Foundations and kinetic energy, Journal of Geometry and Physics 164, p. 104201, Elsevier B.V., doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2021.104201
  19. Ramy Rashad, Federico Califano, Frederic P. Schuller, Stefano Stramigioli (2021) Port-Hamiltonian modeling of ideal fluid flow: Part II. Compressible and incompressible flow, Journal of Geometry and Physics 164, p. 104199, Elsevier B.V., doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2021.104199
  20. Ramy Rashad, Jelmer Goerres, Ronald Aarts, Johan B.C. Engelen, Stefano Stramigioli (2020) Fully Actuated Multirotor UAVs: A Literature Review, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 27(3), p. 97-107, IEEE, doi:10.1109/MRA.2019.2955964
  21. Ramy Rashad, Davide Bicego, Ran Jiao, Santiago Sanchez-Escalonilla, Stefano Stramigioli (2020) Towards vision-based impedance control for the contact inspection of unknown generically-shaped surfaces with a fully-actuated UAV, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(143081), p. 1605-1612, doi:10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341203
  22. Ramy Rashad, Federico Califano, Arjan J van der Schaft, Stefano Stramigioli (2020) Twenty years of distributed port-Hamiltonian systems: a literature review, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 37(4), p. 1400-1422, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/imamci/dnaa018
Dr Ramy Rashad

Assistant Professor