Dr.

Esmaeel khanmirza

Hybrid Control Systems

Intelligent Control Systems

Mechatronics and Concurrent Engineering Systems









Dr.

Esmaeel khanmirza

Hybrid Control Systems

Intelligent Control Systems

Mechatronics and Concurrent Engineering Systems




room:
3128
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Director of IDAS (Intelligent, Autonomous & Distributed Systems) Lab
Ext: 8940
Iran University of Science & Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran. Zip Code: 16846-13114

Faculty Details

Education
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1999 high School
2004 B.Sc.
2006 M.Sc.
2011 PhD

Beheshti High school affiliated with the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, QaemShahr, Mazandaran, Iran,
Cumulative GPA: 19.3/20

School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Cumulative GPA: 18.02/20
Title: Computer-Aided Design for Vibration Analysis Using Transfer Matrix Method
Supervisor: Prof. M. Nikkh Bahrami
Description: During the B.Sc final project, A software has been developed to estimate Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of industrial rotors.

School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Cumulative GPA: 19.2/20
Title: Nonlinear Trajectory Control of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Supervisor: Prof. A. Yousefi-Koma
Description: The thesis was focused on developing the nonlinear control system for flight trajectory tracking of flapping Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) while subjected to wind.

School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Cumulative GPA: 18.2/20
Title: Integrated Control Synthesis of Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Supervisor: Prof. A. Yousefi-Koma
Description: The thesis outcome was developing the new method to control hybrid dynamical systems which contain both continuous and discrete dynamics.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Hybrid Control Systems: Controller synthesis for Hybrid systems (based on hybrid Automata). A hybrid system is a dynamic system that exhibits both continuous and discrete dynamic behavior – a system that can both flow (described by a differential equation) and jump (described by a difference equation or control graph); The application of Model Predictive Control, Convex Optimization, Intelligent Control systems on Hybrid dynamical systems Controller synthesis.

Intelligent Systems: The application of Neural Network, Evolutionary Algorithms, expert systems and etc. on Controller synthesis and Optimization; Fuzzy-Control; and Nero-Fuzzy Control; The application of reinforcement learning on controller synthesis.

Soft Body Manipulation: Dynamical model of soft bodies; soft body grasping and manipulation.

Technology Interests

My interests in technology development are:

Motion Planning: Design and fabrication motion controllers for vehicles such as aircraft, cars, satellites, ships, etc.; multi-agent path-planning; Swarm systems, Formation design, and Consensus control; Robot Operating System(ROS); Traffic scheduling; Geometry Control.

Networked Control Systems: Implementing the Internet of Things (IoT) Operating Systems and platforms, Real-time operating systems (RTOS) to develop supervisory control systems, networked control systems and embedded control systems; Industrial IoT.

Concurrent Engineering: Concurrent engineering and its relation to Issues such as Systems engineering, requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability, optimization methods, and risk management tools. Managing systems engineering overlaps with control engineering, industrial engineering, software engineering, organizational studies, and project management.

Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished industrial project, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, 2020.
  • Distinguished Professor of School of Mechanical Engineering (first rank of industrial research), Iran University of Science and Technology, 2019.
  • Distinguished Professor of School of Mechanical Engineering (first rank of industrial research), Iran University of Science and Technology, 2018.
  • Nominated lecturer by distinguished students from the perspective of scientific and social excellence, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2017.
  • 1st rank in communication CanSat category as IDAS team adviser, 5th Iran CanSat Competition, Aerospace Research Institute (ARI), 2017.
  • 1st rank in photo/video mission category as IDAS team adviser, 4th Iran CanSat Competition, Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC), 2014.
  • 3rd rank in Bio-Payload Recovery category as SOHIDAS team adviser, 4th Iran CanSat Competition, Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC), 2014.
  • 2nd rank in ISME 2007 (The 14th Annual International Conference Of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran) Competitions for design and fabrication of a "Flapping Wing Aerial Vehicle", 2007.
  • Nominated lecturer by students, University of Tehran, 2010.
  • Ranked 1st among all PhD students in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2008.
  • Ranked 1st among all MS students graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2006, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2006.
  • Ranked 1st among all BS students graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2004, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2004.
  • F.O.E. Award – University of Tehran, 2002.
  • Bronze Medal of Iranian National Mathematics Olympiad, Ministry of Education, 1998.

Summary of Qualifications

IUST Service

  • 2022-Now
    Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2021-2022
    Head of Applied Mechanics Department, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2016-2021
    Director of Technology Development, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Office, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
    The main achievements:
    • Setting up and organizing the office by the Technology Transfer Department; Innovation and Intellectual Property Department; and Research and Technology administration Department;
    • Financing more than 50 knowledge-based start-ups;
    • Determining the commercialization policies and procedures for university intellectual property through the sale of technical knowledge, royalties, and the creation of knowledge-based startups by professors and students, and determining the extent of the university's share in such companies. These policies and procedures have been approved by the University Board of Trustees;
    • Placing and utilizing more than 10 brokers in providing entrepreneurship and financial services;
    • Organizing various entrepreneurship educational short-courses for students and faculty members.
  • 2020-2021
    Member of the Executive Committee of the Strategic Planning Council, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2020-2021
    Member of the IUST Council of Safety, Health and Environment, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2020-2021
    Member of the Steering Council of IUST Kish and Chabahar Branch, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2016-2021
    Member of the Evaluation Committee for Knowledge-based Companies, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2016-2021
    Member of the Council of IUST Technology Incubator Center, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2014-2021
    Member of the University Research and Technology Council, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2013-2021
    Deputy of Technology Development and Commercialization, IUST Research Institute, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
    The main achievements:
    • Administering the establishment of more than 14 research centers with the mission of developing research achievements and knowledge-based products to meet a higher level of technology readiness (TRL);
    • Launching IUST 'TECH-ROAD' to facilitate commercialization services by providing rapid prototyping, manufacturing, finance, insurance, marketing and more;
    • Providing regulations for launching and Extending the activity of research units Including Center of Research Excellence; Center of Technology Excellence; Institute; Research and Technology Center; Research and Technology Department; Policy (Think-tank) Institute; Academy; Research Chair; Research Lab; ThinkTank Group; Industrial Clinic; Industry (Company) Desk; Industrial Liaison Office. The university board of trustees has approved these regulations;
    • Defining research and development policies for more than 27 institutes and research centers of IUST and evaluate their activities;
  • 2014-2018
    Director of Technology Management Office, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2015-2016
    Secretary of the Technology, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Committee, IUST Strategic Planning Council, Tehran.

Professional Service

  • 2023-Now
    Member of the Evaluation Committee for Knowledge-based Companies, SARCHESHMEH Copper Investment Company, Tehran.
  • 2022-2023
    Member of University Research, Technology and entrepreneurship Council, University of Applied Science and Technology, Tehran.
  • 2021-Now
    Chairman of the Board of directors on behalf of the University, Science and Industry Research & Technology Fund, Tehran.
    The main achievements of the Fund:
    • Issuance of guarantees up to the legal limit;
    • Granting facilities to knowledge-based companies;;
    • Investing in startups;;
    • Cooperation in developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Iran University of Science and Technology
    • Increasing the fund’s capital and creating the necessary infrastructure for the development of the fund’s operations.
  • 2020-2021
    Member of the board of directors on behalf of the University, Science and Industry Research & Technology Fund, Tehran.
  • 2014-2015
    Member of University Research Council, Islamic Azad University E-branch, Tehran.
  • 2014-2015
    Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Islamic Azad University E-branch, Tehran.
  • 2012-2013
    Member of the Council of Technology Incubator Center, Qazvin Science and Technology Park, Qazvin.
  • 2009-2012
    Deputy of Research and Technology, SRI Institute, ISA, Tehran.
    The main achievements:
    • Development and implementation of project management, control processes and quality assurance using IT technologies;
    • Realizing the products technology tree and Assessment of their readiness level;
    • Preparing for the transition from document-based to model-based system engineering;
    • Setting up a knowledge management system.
  • 2011
    Director of Education and Training Center of APSCO (Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization) in Iran, Tehran.
  • 2008-2009
    Technical Advisor of JTG President, J. Tahgigat Group (JTG), Tehran.
    JTG fields of business: Automotive, Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Environment, Construction, Instruments, High Technology and ... industries.
  • 2005-2006
    Deputy of Technology Incubator Center, University of Tehran, Tehran.
    The main achievements:
    • Giving admissions to more than 17 startup companies in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and management, which three of the nanotechnology companies won the national award the following years;
    • Cooperation in the establishment of the Science and Technology Park of the University of Tehran.

Industrial Experience

  • Supervising the design and installation of two steel slab numbering robots، MOBARAKEH Steel Technology and Innovation Support, and Development Company، Isfahan.
  • Design and feasibility assessment of making an acid washing machine، MOTTAHED PARCH Company، Tehran.
  • Project Manager, design and manufacturing the advanced project staffed by more than 150 postgraduate and PhD experts, Tehran.
  • Systems engineering Manager, in the most complicated, high technology and multidisciplinary project, Tehran.
  • Supervision of Power Distribution Lines by Cooperative Aerial Robots, Niroo Research Institute, Tehran.
  • Design and Infrastructure Development of the unmanned vehicle, Including more than 10 operational modes‎, ‎internal engine test-bed facility‎, ‎inertial system test-bed‎, ‎mass measurement facility‎, ‎control, path-planning and SLAM system, Tehran.
  • Design and Development of the Software System for Simulating the Effects of Strategic Decision, Tehran.
  • Intelligent and Systematic Evaluation of ICT Operators, Communications Regulatory Authority, Tehran.
  • Design and Development of the Concurrent Engineering System , Iran National Science Foundation, Tehran.
  • Collaborating on the National Project of the Design and Fabrication of Constellation for Permanent Coverage, The Supreme Council for Science‎, ‎Research and Technology, Tehran.
  • Design and Implementation of Semi-industrial Prototype of a Controller for Two-degree-of-freedom Agile Servomechanism, Tehran.
  • Design and Collaborating in Manufacturing of the IGV Actuator for a Gas Turbine, Tehran.
  • Sensor Group President, Tehran.
  • Attitude control system Director, Tehran.

Teaching

  • Graduate
    Intelligent Control Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Since fall 2013.
  • Graduate
    Adaptive Control, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Since spring 2014.
  • Graduate
    Mechatronics II, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Since fall 2015.
  • Graduate
    Mechatronics I, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies (FNST), University of Tehran, fall 2011.
  • Undergraduate
    Engineering Dynamics, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Since fall 2013.
  • Undergraduate
    Design Methods in Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Since fall 2014.
  • Undergraduate
    Design of Machine Elements II, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2013-2015.
  • Undergraduate
    Design of Machinery (Dynamics of machines), School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2013-2015.
  • Undergraduate
    Engineering Statics, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, fall 2009--2010.
  • Undergraduate
    Mechanics of Materials, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, fall 2009--2010.

Patents

  • 2023
    Plant health monitoring by image processing in an Internet of Things platform for smart pots, Inventors: Mohammad Hossein Khodadadi, Esmaeel Khanmirza; Assignees: Esmaeel Khanmirza, Mohammad Hossein Khodadadi, Iran University of Science and Technology,
    Patent Number/Date: 108913/2023-03-13, Patent Application Number/Date: 140150140003007385/2023-01-07, Intellectual property Offce, Iran.
  • 2021
    Human face robot with the ability to simulate different facial expressions for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, Inventors: Esmaeel Khanmirza, Mehrdad Marandi; Assignees: Esmaeel Khanmirza, Mehrdad Marandi, Iran University of Science and Technology,
    Patent Number/Date: 106000/2021-12-26, Patent Application Number/Date: 140050140003001904/2021-05-25, Intellectual property Offce, Iran.

Certificates

  • Intellectual Property and Patent.
  • PLC S7.
  • Industrial Networks.
  • Principles and Tactics of Negotiation.
  • Project Management Fundamental‎, ‎Hormozan Project Development Co.‎, ‎Iran‎, ‎Tehran.
  • Project Management Fundamental‎, ‎Valense Organizational Consultants‎, United Kingdom.
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML).
  • Rational Unified Process (RUP).
  • Business Plan Evaluation.

Software Skills

Math: Matlab, Maple 100%
Dynamics: ADAMS 90%
Control: Simulink 100%
Automation: STEP7,TIA 80%
Modeling: SolidWorks, CATIA 100%
FEM: ANSYS 80%
Programming: C++,Python 90%
Microcontroller: AVR, ARM 80%
Web: HTML,CSS,JavaScript 90%

Biography

Esmaeel Khanmirza is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). Professor Khanmirza received his M.S. (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) in mechanical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran. Dr. Khanmirza’s research focuses on Hybrid Control Systems and Intelligent Systems whereas his most recent activities are but not limited to: the application of Model Predictive Control, Convex Optimization, Intelligent Control systems on Hybrid dynamical systems Controller synthesis. He received the IUST award and was introduced as Distinguished Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering-IUST (first rank of industrial research) in 2018 and 2019. Professor Khanmirza has also achieved ranks of national excellence as a recipient of the Bronze Medallion of Iranian National Mathematics Olympiad (1998).

publications

Please visit the Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jCD1p50AAAAJ&hl

Selected Publication

  • M. Nazarahari, E. Khanmirza, and S. Doostie, “Multi-objective multi-robot path planning in continuous environment using an enhanced genetic algorithm,” Expert System with Applications, vol. 115, pp. 106–120, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.08.008
  • E. Khanmirza, K. Daneshjou, and A. Karamali Ravandi, “Hybrid force-position control of robotic arms manipulating in uncertain environment based on adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control,” Applied Soft Computing, vol. 70, pp. 864–874, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2018.05.048
  • E. Khanmirza, R. Madoliat, and A. Pourfard, “Transient optimization of natural gas networks using intelligent algorithms,” Journal of Energy Resources Technology-transactions of the ASME, vol. 141, no. 3, pp. 032 901: 1–11, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040073
  • E. Khanmirza, A. Mousavi, and M. Nazarahari, “Identification of piecewise affine systems based on fuzzy PCA-Guided robust clustering technique,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2016:133, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13634-016-0427-y
  • E. Khanmirza and A. Yousef-Koma, “Application of graph theory in hybrid control systems using state space mesh,” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, vol. 227, no. 2, pp. 252–263, 2013. [Online]. Available: http://pii.sagepub.com/content/227/2/252.abstract