Dr. Yasir Awais Butt

Designation                       Associate Professor                                                   

Email ID(s)                          yasir.aawais@nutech.edu.pk                                                    

NUTECH ext.                     290

                                                      

Profile Summary

Honest, confident and hardworking leader; a person of keen judgment with a record of integrity and dependability, poised to leverage education and experience toward launching research efforts in the field of control systems as tools of self improvement and service to society.

Qualification
Sr. NoDegreeUniversityYear
1PhD Electrical Engineering Muhammad Ali Jinnah University Islamabad, Pakistan2015
2MSc Computer Engineering 2011
3BE Electrical Engineering College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering National University of Science and Technology 2001

Teaching Experience

Sr. NoDesignationUniversityYear
FromTo
1Visiting LecturerCUST20152015
2Visiting LecturerAbasyn University, Isb20152017
3Adjunct Faculty – Assistant ProfessorAbasyn University, Isb20172020
4Visiting LecturerInstitute of Space Technology20162017
5Visting LecturerAir University Kamra20202020

Professional Memberships

Sr. NoMembership TypeMembership Body
1IEEE Control System Society Pakistan Chapter
2Control and Signal Processing Research Group

Research Areas/Interests

Sr. NoAreaDescription
1Sub-Riemannian Geometry
2Geometric control theory
3Optimal Control Theory
4Sliding Mode Control
5Robotics Motion Planning and Control of Robots
6Nonlinear Systems

Research Supervision

Sr. NoMS/PhDTitle
1MSSliding mode based robust control of a lower limb rehabilitation robot, 2018
2MSParticle swarm optimization based sliding mode control of a quadrotor UAV, 2019
3PhDFault tolerant control of a diesel engine, 2019
4PhDVelocity profile optimization of electric vehicle, In collaboration with Mr. Yasir Naeem
5PhDOptimal control of a fighter aircraft, In collaboration with Mr Faheem Manzoor

Journal Publications

Sr. NoJournal NamePublication Title with I.FYear
1Journal of ControlG. Murtaza, A. I. Bhatti , Y. A. Butt, Unified FDI and FTC Scheme for Air Path Actuators of a Diesel Engine Using ISM Extended with Adaptive Part, Asian Journal of Control, July 2018
2 Journal of Automobile EngineeringG. Murtaza, A I. Bhatti, Yasir A Butt, Super twisting controller-based unified FDI and FTC scheme for air path of diesel engine using the certainty equivalence principle, Journal of Automobile Engineering Part D: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2017
3Alexandria Engineering JournalYasir Awais Butt, Robust stabilization of a class of nonholonomic systems using logical switching and integral sliding mode control, Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2017
4 Journal of Dynamical and Control SystemsYasir Awais Butt, Yuri L. Sachkov, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, “Cut Time and Optimal Synthesis in the Sub-Riemannian Problem on the Lie Group SH(2)”, Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, Published online August 5, 2016, DOI 10.1007/s10883-016-9337-4
5Journal of Dynamical and Control SystemsYasir Awais Butt, Yuri L. Sachkov, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, “Maxwell Strata and Conjugate Points in the Sub-Riemannian Problem on the Lie Group SH(2)”, Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, Published online April 20, 2016
6Journal of Dynamical and Control SystemsYasir Awais Butt, Yuri L. Sachkov, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, “Extremal Trajectories and Maxwell Strata in Sub-Riemannian Problem on Group of Motions of Pseudo-Euclidean Plane”, Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems: Volume 20, Issue 3 (2014), 341-364
7Alexandria Engineering JournalYasir Awais Butt, Robust stabilization of a class of nonholonomic systems using logical switching and integral sliding mode control, Alexandria Engineering Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2017.05.017

Conference Publications

Sr. NoConference NamePublication TitleYear
1Conference on Frontiers of Information TechnologyZeeshan Babr, Yasir Awais Butt, MPC based Trajectory Tracking Control for Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot, Accepted for publication in 17th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'19)
2Asian Control Conference (ASCC)H. M. Yasir Naeem, A. Iqbal Bhatti, Y. A. Butt and Q. Ahmed, "Velocity Profile Optimization of an Electric Vehicle with Battery Dynamic Model," 12th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Kitakyushu-shi, Japan, 2019, pp. 609-614.
3conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST)F. Gulzar, Y. A Butt, Z. M. Zeeshan, Design and manufacturing of Ku band detector, 15th International Bhurban conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), 2018
4Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)G. Murtaza, Y. A. Butt, A. I. Bhatti, R. Anjum, FTC for air path actuators of a diesel engine using VGSTA, 13th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2017
5Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)G. Murtaza, Y. A. Butt, A. I. Bhatti, R. Anjum, Higher order sliding mode based control scheme for air path of diesel engine, 12th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2016
6Conference on Emerging TechnologiesYasir Awais Butt, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, “Robust altitude tracking of a helicopter using sliding mode control structure”, 2012 International Conference on Emerging Technologies, pages 1-7, October 2012
7Conference on Geometry, Dynamics, Integrable SystemsYuri L. Sachkov, Yasir Awais Butt, Optimal synthesis for the left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of hyperbolic motions of the plane, Sixth International Conference on Geometry, Dynamics, Integrable Systems – GDIS 2016, Russia
8 kinematic nonholonomic systemsYasir Awais Butt, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Exponential stabilization of kinematic nonholonomic systems using adaptive backstepping, ICET 2016, Islamabad
9Higher order sliding mode based control scheme for air path of diesel engineGhulam Murtaza, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Yasir Awais Butt, Higher order sliding mode based control scheme for air path of diesel engine, ICET 2016, Islamabad
10 Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and MechanicsYasir Awais Butt, Yuri L. Sachkov, Sub-Riemannian Problem on Lie Group SH(2), International Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and Mechanics, Suzdal, Russia, Jun 2015
11American Control ConferenceYasir Awais Butt, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, Yuri L. Sachkov, “Integrability by Quadratures in Optimal Control of a Unicycle on Hyperbolic Plane”, Accepted, American Control Conference, 1 – 3 Jul 2015, Chicago, Illinois,
12Conference on Geometry and ControlYasir Awais Butt, Yuri L. Sachkov, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, “Maxwell Strata and Conjugate Points in Sub-Riemannian Problem on Group SH(2)”, International Youth Conference on Geometry and Control, Moscow, April 14 – 18, 2014
13Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and MechanicsYasir Awais Butt, Yuri L. Sachkov, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti, “Extremal Trajectories and Maxwell Points in Sub-Riemannian Problem on the Group SH(2)”, International Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and Mechanics, Suzdal, Russia, 5--9 Jul 2013