Area of Research

Nonlinear Control, Robust and Optimal Control, Fuzzy Control

Research Interest

Current Interests

1. Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation

2. Fault Diagnosis in Power Distribution Systems

3. Multi-Model Approach for fault detection in nonlinear systems

4. Fault Detection in Cyber Physical Systems

5. Data-driven techniques for Fault Detection

6. Diagnosis and Control of Multi-agent systems

Previous Interests

1. Wind energy generation with perspective to Pakistan

2. Energy-Based control of large scale systems

3. Control of non-minimum phase systems

Thesis Supervision

Masters Thesis

1. Canonical variate analysis for detection of high impedance faults in power transmission lines

2. Stability analysis of nonlinear multi-agent systems with stochastic switching topology

3. Robust fault detection for fractional order systems

4. Data driven approach for detection of high impedance faults in power distribution systems

5. Modeling and control of two axis gimbal system with dynamic unbalance

6. Stability Analysis of Markovian Jump Nonlinear Systems

7. Monitoring of power distribution networks

8. Application of Exponential Discriminant Analysis for Process monitoring

9. Fault diagnosis / Attack Detection in Cyber Physical Systems

10. Exponential Discriminant Analysis for Fault Diagnosis

11. Design of Finite Time Observers for Nonlinear Systems

12. LMI Formulation for Fault Diagnosis in Nonlinear Systems

13. Threshold Generation for One-Sided Lipschitz Systems

14. Fault Tolerant Control for Vehicle Active Suspension System

15. Fault detection in Wind Turbines

16. Sensor-Fault detection in Coupled Liquid Tank Experimental Setup

17. Multi—model approach for fault detection in nonlinear systems

18. Fault tolerant control of wind turbines

19. Design of Ball and plate system for multivariable control experiments

20. Swing up and stabilizing controller for inverted pendulum system

21. Robust control of 8-DOF vehicle active suspension system

22. Fault diagnosis in vehicle active suspension system

23. Optimal fault detection for linear impulsive systems

24. Stochastic stability of Markovian Jump Systems

25. Multi model approach for fault detection in nonlinear systems with immeasurable premise variables

26. Fault detection for one-sided Lipschiz nonlinear systems

27. Design of residual generator for discrete time periodic systems

28. Robust Control of pressurized water reactor

29. Model based fault diagnosis of a nuclear reactor

30. Design and optimization of fuzzy controller for a nuclear reactor

Undergraduate Thesis

1. TS Fuzzy Control for a Self-Balancing Bicycle (Funded by ICT R&D)

2. Design and Control of Quarter Car Active Suspension System (Funded by ICT R&D)

3. Steering Control of a Self-Balancing Bicycle (Funded by ICT R&D).

4. Altitude Control of a Quadcoptor [Co-supervisor]

5. Systems Identification and Control of CE-150 Helicopter Model (Co-Supervisor)

6. Cruise control of a ground vehicle (Co-supervisor)

Publications

Book/Chapters

1. M. Abid, A. Q. Khan, M. Rehan and H. Rasheed, “TS Fuzzy Approach for Fault Detection in Cyber Physical Nonlinear Systems”, Springer 2014.

2. M. Abid, Fault Detection in Nonlinear Systems: An Observer-Based Approach, Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2010.

Journal Papers

1. M. W. Khan, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa, M. Ali, and A. Khan, “Sliding mode control for a fractional-order nonlinear glucose-insulin system,” IET Systems Biology, vol. -, 2020. IF = 1.392, accepted.

2. A. ur Rehman, M. Rehan, M. Abid, M. Riaz, and N. Iqbal, “Consensus tracking of nonlinear multi-agent systems under input saturation with applications: A sector-based approach,” ISA Transactions, vol. -, 2020. IF = 4.305, accepted.

3. M. W. Khan, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan, and G. Mustafa, “Controller design for a fractional-order nonlinear glucose-insulin system using feedback linearization,” Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, vol. -, 2020. IF = 1.596, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0142331220911584.

4. M. A. Khan, M. Abid, N. Ahmed, A. Wadood, and H. Park, “Nonlinear control design of a half-car model using feedback linearization and an LQR controller,” Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 9, p. 3075, 2020. IF = 2.217.

5. N. us Saqib and M. Abid, “Functional observer design for nonlinear descriptor systems using takagi-sugeno fuzzy approach,” IEEEP New Horizons, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. –, 2020. HEC Recognized.

6. A. Abbasi, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, G. Mustafa, A. Mehmood, H. Luo, and S. Yin, “Parity-based robust data-driven fault detection for nonlinear systems using just-in-time learning approach”, Transactions on Institute of Measurement and Control, vol., Accepted, (IF = 1.956).

7. O. Khan, G. Mustafa, A.Q. Khan, and M. Abid, Robust observer-based model predictive control of non-uniformly sampled systems, ISA Transactions, vol. , no., pp. , IF 4.34.

8. F. Tariq, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid and G. Mustafa, Data-driven Robust Fault Detection and Isolation of Three Phase Induction Motor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018, Accepted  (IF = 7.1).

9. R. Javed, G. Mustafa, A. Q. Khan and M. Abid, Networked control of a power system: A non-uniform sampling approach, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 161, pages 224—235,  2018 (IF = 2.856).

10. F. Jamil, M. Abid, M. Adil, I. Haq, A.Q. Khan and S.F. Khan, Kernel approaches for fault detection and classification in PARR-2, Journal of Process Control, vol. 64, pages 1—6, 2018. (IF = 2.787).

11. S. M. H. Rizvi, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan, J. Latif, S.G. Satti, “Hinf Control of 8 degrees of freedom vehicle active suspension system”, Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences, Vol. 30, Issue 2, pp 161-169, 2018.

12. Y. Mehmood, G. Mustafa, A.Q. Khan, M. Abid, M. Darouch “Approximate Discretization of Regular Descriptor Systems with Impulsive Mode”, Automatica, Vol. 73, 231—236, 2016. (IF = 5.451).

13. M. Adil, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa and N. Ahmed, “Exponential Discriminant Analysis for Fault Diagnosis”, Neurocomputing, Vol. 171, pp. 1344-1353, 2016. (IF = 3.317)

14. F. Jamil, M. Abid, I. Haq, A. Q. Khan and M. Iqbal, “Fault Diagnosis of Pakistan Research Reactor—2 with Data Driven Techniques”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 90, pages 433—440, 2016 (IF = 1.312).

15. A. Zulfiqar, M. Rehan and M. Abid, Observer design for one-sided Lipschitz descriptor systems, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 40, 2301—2311, 2016 (IF = 2.35).

16. U. Altaf, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa, M. T. Raza and M. Abid, Design of Robust H_infty Fault Detection Filter for Uncertain Time-Delay Systems using Canonical form Approach, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 353, pages 54—71, 2016 (IF = 3.139).

17. M. T. Raza, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa, M. Abid, “Design of Fault Detection and  Isolation Filter for Switched Control Systems under Asynchronous Switching”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol 24, pages 13—23, 2016 (IF = 3.882).

18. A. Hussain, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, “Robust Fault Detection Using Subspace Aided Data Driven Design”, Asian Journal of Control, Vol. 18, pages 1—12, 2016 (IF = 1.421).

19. K. Iftikhar, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, “Optimal fault detection filter design for switched linear systems”, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Vol. 15, Pages 132–144, 2015 (IF = 3.192).

20. M. Nazir, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa and M. Abid Robust Fault Detection for Wind Turbines using Reference Model-Based Approach, Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences, 2015.

21. A. R. Khan, A. Q. Khan, M. T. Raza, M. Abid, and G. Mustafa, “Design of robust fault detection scheme for penicillin fermentation process,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, no. 21, pp. 589–594, 2015.

22. M. T. Raza, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa, and M. Abid, “Robust fault detection and isolation for uncertain switched systems under asynchronous switching with adaptive threshold,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, no. 21, pp. 131–136, 2015.

23. A. Q. Khan, M. Abid and S. X. Ding, “Fault detection filter design for discrete-time nonlinear systems—A mixed H-/H∞ optimization”, Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 67, pp. 46—54, 2014 (IF = 2.059).

24. M. Rehan, A. Q. Khan, and M. Abid, “Anti-windup-based H∞ controller synthesis for Lipschitz nonlinear systems under input saturation,” Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 220, 382-393, 2013 (IF = 1.6).

25. M. Abid, W. Chen, S. X. Ding, and A. Q. Khan, “Optimal residual evaluation for nonlinear systems using post-filter and threshold” Int. J. Control, 2011, Vol 84(3), 526-539 (IF = 0.977).

26. W. Chen, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, and S. X. Ding, “Integrated design of observer-based fault detection for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with Lipschitz nonlinearities,” Int. J. Applied Mathematics & Computer Science 2011, Vol. 21(3), 423—430 (IF = 0.487).

27. M. Abid, S. X. Ding, and A. Q. Khan, “Dynamic threshold for fault detection in lipschitz nonlinear systems,” IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 36-40, 2009.

28. S. X. Ding, A. Q. Khan, Y. Wang, and M. Abid, “A note on unknown input fault detection filter design,” IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 5523-5528, 2008.

29. M. S. Afzal, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan and M. Tufail, “Active fault tolerant control systems with nth order Markov parameters: Modeling and Stochastic stability analysis”, (under review).

30. M. M. Khan, A. Qayyum, M. Abid and G. Mustafa, “Robust fault detection filter for linear uncertain time delay systems: A reference model based approach”.

31. Muhammad Faraz Tariq, Abdul Qayyum Khan, Muhammad Abid and Ghulam Mustafa, Data-driven Robust Fault Detection and Isolation of Three Phase Induction Motor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (submitted)

32. Umair Altaf, Abdul Qayyum Khan, Ghulam Mustafaa, Muhammad Abid, Ahmad Moughees Anwar, Fault Detection of Time-Delay Systems using Unknown Input Diagnostic Observer: A Diesel Engine benchmark application, Journal of the Franklin Institute (submitted).

33. Networked Control of a Power System on Smart Grid: A Non-Uniform Sampling Approach, Electric Power Systems Research (submitted)

International Conferences

1. M. Adil, M. Abid, A.Q. Khan, G. Mustafa, “Comparison of PCA and FDA for Monitoring of Coupled Liquid Tank System”, 13th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology, January 12—16, 2016, Islamabad

2. M.O. Farooq and M. Abid, Robust Fault Diagnosis of Power Grid Network System, Electrical Engineering (RAEE), 2015 Symposium on Recent Advances in. IEEE, 2015.

3. A. R. Khan, A. Q. Khan, M. T. Raza, M. Abid, G. Mustafa, Design of Robust Fault Detection Scheme for Penicillin Fermentation Process, accepted in IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2015.

4. M. T. Raza, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa, M. Abid, Robust Fault Detection and Isolation for Uncertain Switched Systems under Asynchronous Switching with Adaptive Threshold, accepted in IFAC SAFEPROCESS. 2015 

5. T. Wahab, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan, G. Mustafa,  Robust Fault Detection of Linearized Power Grid Network System, accepted in PGSRET 2015.

6. M. Sabeeh, A. Q. Khan, M. T. Raza, M. Abid and G. Mustfa, Dedicated Observer-based Approach for Fault Isolation in Wind Turbine System, 30TH IEEEP Multi-Topic International Symposium, March 25-26, 2015, Karachi, Pakistan. 

7. Muhammad, G. Mustafa, A. Q. Khan and M. Abid, “On Observability of Non-Uniformly Sampled Systems”, 12th IEEE International Conference on FIT (IEEE FIT2014), December 17-19, 2014, Islamabad, Pakistan.

8. M. Abid, M. Shoaib and A. Q. Khan, “Multi-Objective Robust H_infty Observer Design for One-Sided Lipschitz Nonlinear Uncertain Systems”, Chinese Control and Decision Conference 2014, Changsha, China.

9. M. Abid , T. Hussain and A. Q. Khan, “TS Fuzzy approach for Fault Detection in Nonlinear Systems with Immeasurable State Variables”, Chinese Control and Decision Conference 2014, Changsha, China.

10. W. Ashraf, A. Q. Khan, T. Raza and M. Abid, RFDF design for a class of time delay systems with unknown inputs and parameter uncertainties using bicausal transformation, 9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2013), December 9-10, 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan.

11. H. Naveed, A. Q. Khan and M. Abid, Fault tolerant control using event based switching, 9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2013), December 9-10, 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan.

12. S.M.H. Rizvi, M. Abid and A. Q. Khan, Actuator Fault Diagnosis and Isolation in Vehicle active Suspension, 9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2013), December 9-10, 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan.

13. A. Muqtadir, M. Abid, A. Q. Khan and G. Mustafa, Residual Generation for Discrete-time Periodic Systems using Parity Space Approach, 11th IEEE International Conference on FIT (IEEE FIT2013), December 16-18, 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan.

14. W. Ashraf, A. Q. Khan, M.T. Raza, M. Abid, “Unknown input diagnostic observer design for a class of time-delay systems using bicausal transformation,” Third International Conference on Aerospace Science & Engineering (ICASE2013) August 21-23, 2013 Islamabad, Pakistan

15. M. Abid and A. Q. Khan, M. Rehan, and M. Adil, “Sensor fault reconstruction for one-sided Lipschitz nonlinear systems,” 10^th IBCAST, Islamabad, 2013.

16. A. Ahmad Khattak, S. Farooq, A. Q, Khan and M. Abid, “An LMI based approach to passivity analysis and robust passification of uncertain neutral systems with time varying delays,” 51st Conf. Decis. Contr (CDC), Maui, Hawaii, USA, December 10-13, 2012.

17. K. Iftikhar, A. Q. Khan, and M. Abid, Robust Fault Detection Filter Design for Discrete Switched Linear Systems, 10th IEEE International Conference on FIT (IEEE FIT2012), December 17-19, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.

18. S. Farooq, A Ahmed , M. Abid and A. Q. Khan, “Delay Range Dependent Robust Passification for Singular Neutral Uncertain Systems with Time Varying Delays and Actuator Saturation, “10th IEEE International Conference on FIT (IEEE FIT2012), December 17-19, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.

19. F. Kousar, M. Abid and A. Q. Khan, Sensor fault detection in coupled liquid tanks system, 10th IEEE International Conference on FIT (IEEE FIT2012), December 17-19, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.

20. R. F. Abbas, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, and A. Ahmed “Fault Detection for Uncertain Linear Systems Using Parity Space Approach,” 8th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2012), October 8-9, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.

21. A. Hussain, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, and M. Tufail “On fault detection in coupled liquid three tank system using subspace aided data driven design,” 8th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2012), October 8-9, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.

22.  S Farooq, A.Ahmad, M. Abid, and A. Q. Khan “Passivity Analysis of Uncertain Singular Neutral Systems with Arbitrary Time Varying Delays,” 8th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET2012), October 8-9, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan. [Best paper award]

23. A. Q. Khan, S. X. Ding, C. I. Chihaia, M. Abid, and W. Chen, “Robust fault detection in nonlinear systems: A three-tank benchmark application,” In Proc. Of Conf. on Control and Fault-tolerant systems (SystTol’10), October 6-8, 2010, Nice, France.

24. W. Chen, S. X. Ding, A. Q. Khan, and M. Abid, “Energy-based fault detection for dissipative systems,” In Proc. Of Conf. on Control and Fault-tolerant systems (SystTol’10), October 6-8, 2010, Nice, France.

25. A. Q. Khan, M. Abid, W. Chen and S. X. Ding, “On optimal Fault detection of Nonlinear Systems,” In Proc. Of  Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’09), Shinghai China, Dec. 16-18, 2009.

26. W. Chen, A. Q. Khan, M. Abid and S. X. Ding, “Integrated design of fault detection for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with Lipschitz nonlinearities,”  Proc. 7th workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis’2009 November 19-20, 2009, Poland.

27. M. Abid, S. X. Ding and A. Q. Khan, “Dynamic Threshold for fault detection in Lipschitz nonlinear Systems," 7th IFAC Safe Process, pp: 36-40, Barcelona, Spain, June 30-July 3, 2009.

28. A. Q. Khan, S. X. Ding and M. Abid, "Residual Generation and Evaluation Scheme for Detection of Faults in Nonlinear Systems using Convex Optimization," In Proc. Of 6th Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, 27-28 November 2008, Coventry University, UK.

29. S.X. Ding, A. Q. Khan, Y.Q. Wang, M. Abid, “A Note on Unknown Input Fault Detection filter Design,” 17^th IFAC08 World Congress, Seul, S. Korea, July 6-11, 2008.

30. Muhammad Abid, “Fuzzy Control of Coupled Liquid Tank System”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Inf. Comm. Tech.(ICICT), Karachi, Pakistan, 2005, pp. 144-147.

31. M. Abid and N. Iqbal “Robust Passification of Non-passive Systems”, in Proc. Int. Bhurban Conf. Applied Science. tech. (IBCAST), Bhurban, Pakistan, 2005.

32. B. Riaz, H. Wasif Mehmood, Awais Ahmed, M. Abid, Steering Control of a Self Balancing Bicycle, 1st International Young Engineers Convention (FEIIC IYEC-2014), Lahore, Pakistan.

33. M. Mujahid, M. Abid, Fault Detection For Linear Impulsive System With Persistently Acting Impacts Based On Finite Time Observer, FEIIC 1st International Young Engineers Convention (FEIIC IYEC-2014), Lahore, Pakistan.

34. A. Wahab, G. Mustafa, M. Abid and A. Q. Khan, Discretizing LTI Descriptor Systems, FEIIC 1st International Young Engineers Convention (FEIIC IYEC-2014), Lahore, Pakistan.

35. M. Taskeen Raza, Abdul Qayyum Khan, M. Abid, Fault Diagnosis for the Reliability of Wind Power Systems, FEIIC 1st International Young Engineers Convention (FEIIC IYEC-2014), Lahore, Pakistan.

36. M. Abid and N. Iqbal, “Robust Controller Design for Non-minimum Phase Systems”, M.Sc. (Systems Engineering) Thesis work, 2004.

Invited Talks in Workshops/Seiminars

1. M. Abid, Monitoring of PARR-2 using data driven techniques, Seminar on Automation and Monitoring of Engineering Processes, April 11, 2017, PINSTECH, Islamabad.

2. M. Abid, Data Acquisition using Arduino board and programming in LabVIEW in Workshop on nuclear reactor computer interfacing for operation and experiments, Nuclear Engineering Division PINSTECH, 06-08 December 2016.

3. M. Abid, Control Design and Simulation using LabVIEW, Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH), May 25-29, 2015.

4. M. Abid, Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance: Application to Wind Turbines, in EMCOT, COMSATS Abbottabad, May 27-28 2013.

5. M. Abid, Data acquisition and control basics, in Training Course on Advanced Data Acquisition and Process Control, Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH), 18-12 July, 2011.

6. M. Abid, Fault detection in nonlinear systems: Results and future directions, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Dusiburg-Essen, Germany, March 2010.

7. M. Abid, FDI in nonlinear systems, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Dusiburg-Essen, Germany, July 2009.

8. M. Abid, Integrated design of nonlinear fault detection systems using factorization approach, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Dusiburg-Essen, Germany, May 2009.

9. M. Abid, Discrete-time mixed H2/H∞ Nonlinear Filtering, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Dusiburg-Essen, Germany, November 2008.

10. M. Abid, Dynamic threshold generators for robust fault detection in linear systems with parameter uncertainties, Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Dusiburg-Essen, Germany, April, 2008.