Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Hongming Xu

University of Birmingham

Biography: Hongming Xu is a Professor of Energy and Automotive Engineering and Head of the Vehicle Technology Research Centre. He is the Director of Birmingham CASE Automotive Research and Education Centre.

He has 6 years of industrial experience with Jaguar Land Rover and the Premier Automotive Group of Ford. He researches synergies between fuel, propulsion and after-treatment technologies for cleaner road vehicles.

He has 450+ publications (including 200+ refereed journal papers and 200+ conference publications) in engine flow, combustion, emissions, transient operation control and hybrid electric powertrain development involving both experimental and modelling studies. His current main research area is new fuels and electrified powertrains with artificial intelligence-based control and optimisation.

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Saleh Mobayen

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

Biography: SALEH MOBAYEN (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Khoy, Iran, in 1984. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, area: Control Engineering, from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, area: Control Engineering, from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, in January 2013. From January 2013 to December 2018, he was as an Assistant Professor and faculty member with the Department of Electrical Engineering of University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran. Since December 2018, he is Associate Professor of Control Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering of University of Zanjan. From July 2019 to September 2019, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, United Kingdom (UK), with financial support from Engineering Modelling and Simulation Research Group of Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics. Currently, from 2020 until now, he is Associate Professor at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Taiwan, and collaborated with the Future Technology Research Center (FTRC). He has published several papers in the national and international journals. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the IEEE control systems society and serves as a member of program committee of several international conferences. Dr. Mobayen is the Associate Editor of several international scientific journals and has acted as a symposium/track co-chair in numerous IEEE flagship conferences. He is a world’s top 2% scientist from Stanford University (from 2019 until now), and has been ranked among 1% top scientists in the world in the broad field of Electronics and Electrical engineering. Saleh is also recognized in the list of Top Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists in Iran. His research interests include control theory, sliding mode control, robust tracking, non-holonomic robots and chaotic systems.

Speech Title: Design of adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode tracker for quadrotor UAV

Abstract: This speech introduces an adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode control technique for the position and attitude tracking of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle subject to model uncertainty and external disturbances. To this end, a fast-reaching nonsingular terminal sliding surface is defined for the fast convergence of tracking error. The fast reachability of the nonsingular terminal sliding surface is proven using the Lyapunov stability theory. Since, in practice, the upper bounds of model uncertainties and external disturbances are unknown, an adaptive control method is considered to approximate them. The fast-reaching nonsingular terminal sliding mode control method is augmented with the adaptive scheme to ensure both, the fast convergence of the switching surfaces and the rejection of model uncertainties and external disturbances