Dr. Mehrdad Saif

Diagnostics and Control Laboratory (DCL), located within the SFU Engineering Science Department, is headed by Dr. Mehrdad Saif. Dr. Saif's main areas of research are in systems and control, particularly in robust control/estimation, large scale systems and decentralized control, and model based techniques to failure detection and isolation in control systems.

DCL Facility

• 1 SPARCstation 20
• 3 SPARCstation Ultra 1
• 1 SPARCstation 10
• 3 Pentium PC
• Pendubot
• dSPACE Development hardware for rapid control prototyping.
• XMATH/SystemBuild/AutoCode with related modules.
• MATLAB/Simulink with related toolboxes.
• G2, GDA, and NeuroOnline for real time expert system applications.

Researchers

• Laboratory Head
  • Dr. Mehrdad Saif
• Post-Doc
  • Krishnakumar Busawon
  • Yonghong Tan
• Ph.D.
  • Hanlong Yang (Graduated summer 1997)
  • Xiong Yi
  • Mihai Lozoveanu
• M.A.Sc.
  • Zhao Yaang (Graduated spring 1997)
  • Paul Morozoff (Graduated spring 1997)
  • Reza Afrasteh

Current Research Projects

• Failure Detection and Identification (FDI)
  • Model-based approaches to FDI
  • Fuzzy and neural network based approaches to FDI
  • Knowledge based approaches to FDI
  • Approaches to threshold selection
• Robust estimation techniques
  • Robust estimators for FDI
  • Adaptive estimators for FDI
  • Linear and nonlinear estimation
• Automotive Applications
  • Model-based approaches to IC engine diagnosis
  • Automotive control applications

Recent Publications

• Dr. Mehrdad Saif's Selected Publications

Links of Interest

• WWW Library for Chemical Engineering-Process Control
• Control Lab - UTC Resource Center