Dr.-Ing. Hossam Abbas
Senior Scientist
Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine
Universität zu Lübeck
Moislinger Allee 53-55
23558 Lübeck
Gebäude 19
Email: | h.abbas(at)uni-luebeck.de |
Phone: | +49 451 3101 6221 |
Research
Research interests
- Model predictive control
- Linear parameter-varying control systems
- Modeling and control using Gaussian processes
- Optimal and robust control
- System identification
- Applications of physiological control systems
Current Projects
- Practical model predictive control for nonlinear/time-varying systems using linear-parameter varying models (DFG Proj. No. 419290163).
- Real-time registration and tracking at the gentle Retinal laser therapy.
Curriculum Vitae
Hossam S. Abbas completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Assiut University, Egypt, in 1997 and 2001, respectively, and his Ph.D. with foucs on control systems from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, in 2010. He was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University from 2010 to 2015, where he is an Associate Professor since 2015. He was a research fellow in Hamburg University of Technology, and Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He was a senior researcher (Humboldt fellow) with the Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany, and with the Medical Laser Center in Lübeck, in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Currently, he is a senior scientist with the Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine.
Teaching
Courses
System Identification (CS4480-KP04)
Conferences, Workshops and Talks
IFAC World Congress 2020, Germany
Talk: Modeling and Temperature Control of Retinal Laser Therapy
The European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, June, 2019, Munich, Germany
Talk: Toward feedback temperature control for retinal laser treatment
The ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) annual meeting, April, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Poster: An Automatic Feedback Temperature Control for Retinal Laser Treatments
The joint 9th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design and 2nd IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems, September,
2018, Florianopolis, Brazil
Talk: A New Approach to Robust MPC Design for LPV Systems in Input-Output Form
Memberships and Commitments
- IEEE Control Systems Society (since 2010)
- Senior member IEEE (since 2015)
- Memeber ARVO, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Rockville, Maryland, USA, (since 2018)
Awards
- 10/2017 - 3/2019 Georg Forster Research Fellowship for experienced researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Institution, Germany
- 07/2011 - 01/2012 GERSS postdoctoral scholarship award, (DAAD), Germany
Publications
Publications
2023
Accurate and Simple Modeling of Eddy Current Braking Torque: Analysis and Experimental Validation, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics , pp. 1-1, 2023.
On the Design of Nonlinear MPC and LPVMPC for Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Driving, in International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)(accepted) , Italy , 2023.
Weblink: | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06031.pdf |
Bibtex: | @Inproceedings{Nezami2023, author = {Maryam Nezami and Dimitrios S. Karachalios and Georg Schildbach and Hossam S. Abbas}, title = {On the Design of Nonlinear MPC and LPVMPC for Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Driving}, booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)(accepted)}, year = {2023}, month = {July}, address = {Italy} url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06031.pdf} } |
Error Bounds in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Linear Differential Inclusions of Parametric-Varying Embeddings, 2023.
2022
A real-time GP based MPC for quadcopters with unknown disturbances, in 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) , 2022. pp. 2051-2056.
DOI: | 10.23919/ACC53348.2022.9867594 |
Bibtex: | @INPROCEEDINGS{9867594, author={Schmid, Niklas and Gruner, Jonas and Abbas, Hossam S. and Rostalski, Philipp}, booktitle={2022 American Control Conference (ACC)}, title={A real-time GP based MPC for quadcopters with unknown disturbances}, year={2022}, pages={2051-2056}, doi={10.23919/ACC53348.2022.9867594}} |
A Safe Control Architecture Based on Robust Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Driving, in 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) , 2022.
File: | 2206.09735.pdf |
Bibtex: | @InProceedings{Nezami2022, author = {Maryam Nezami and Ngoc Thinh Nguyen and Georg Männel and Hossam Seddik Abbas and Georg Schildbach}, booktitle = {2022 American Control Conference (ACC)}, title = {A Safe Control Architecture Based on Robust Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Driving}, year = {2022}, month = jun, groups = {safe MPC}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.09735.pdf} } |
Parameter Identification and LQR/MPC Balancing Control of a Ballbot, in 2022 European Control Conference (ECC) , 2022. pp. 1315-1321.
DOI: | 10.23919/ECC55457.2022.9837996 |
Bibtex: | @INPROCEEDINGS{9837996, author={Studt, Max and Zhavzharov, Ievgen and Abbas, Hossam S.}, booktitle={2022 European Control Conference (ECC)}, title={Parameter Identification and LQR/MPC Balancing Control of a Ballbot}, year={2022}, pages={1315-1321}, doi={10.23919/ECC55457.2022.9837996}} |
Recursively Feasible Model Predictive Control using Latent Force Models Applied to Disturbed Quadcopters, in 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , 2022. pp. 1013-1020.
DOI: | 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992944 |
Bibtex: | @INPROCEEDINGS{9992944, author={Gruner, Jonas and Schmid, Niklas and Männel, Georg and Grasshof, Jan and Abbas, Hossam S. and Rostalski, Philipp}, booktitle={2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)}, title={Recursively Feasible Model Predictive Control using Latent Force Models Applied to Disturbed Quadcopters}, year={2022}, pages={1013-1020}, doi={10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992944}} |
Robust Tube-Based LPV-MPC for Autonomous Lane Keeping., in IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems , Montreal, Canada , 2022.
File: | 2210.02971.pdf |
Bibtex: | @inproceedings{NeAbNgSc22, address = {Montreal, Canada}, title = {Robust Tube-Based LPV-MPC for Autonomous Lane Keeping.}, booktitle = {IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems}, author = {Nezami, M. and Abbas, H. S. and Nguyen, N. T. and Schildbach, G.}, year = {2022} url= {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.02971.pdf} } |
2021
LPV modeling of nonlinear systems: A multi-path feedback linearization approach, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control , vol. 31, no. 18, pp. 9436-9465, 2021.
Practical Model Predictive Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems Using Linear Parameter-Varying Representations, IEEE Access , vol. 9, pp. 62380-62393, 2021.
Data-driven LPV Model Predictive Control of a Cold Atmospheric Plasma Jet for Biomaterials Processing, Control Engineering Practice , 2021.
Iterative Gaussian Process Model Predictive Control with Application to Physiological Control Systems, in the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Austin, Texas, USA , 2021.
Data-Driven Predictive Control for Linear Parameter-Varying Systems, Milano, Italy , 2021. pp. 101-108.
A Safe Control Architecture Based on a Model Predictive Control Supervisor for Autonomous Driving, in 2021 European Control Conference (ECC) , IEEE, 2021.
DOI: | 10.23919/ecc54610.2021.9655155 |
File: | 2201.13298.pdf |
Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Nezami2021, doi = {10.23919/ecc54610.2021.9655155}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.13298.pdf}, year = {2021}, month = jun, publisher = {IEEE}, author = {Maryam Nezami and Georg Mannel and Hossam Seddik Abbas and Georg Schildbach}, title = {A Safe Control Architecture Based on a Model Predictive Control Supervisor for Autonomous Driving}, booktitle = {2021 European Control Conference ({ECC})} } |
2020
Modeling and parameter identification for real-time temperature controlled retinal laser therapies, at - Automatisierungstechnik , vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 953–966, 2020.
Modeling and Temperature Control of Retinal Laser Therapy, in 21st IFAC World Congress , Berlin, Germany , 2020.
Modelling of Heat Diffusion for Temperature Controlled Retinal Photocoagulation, in Proc. Workshop Automed , L\"ubeck, Germany , 2020.
On the Estimation of Optoacoustic Waves in Retinal Laser Therapy Using Gaussian Processes, in Proc. Workshop Automed , Lübeck, Germany , 2020.
2019
Tube-Based Model Predictive Control for Linear Parameter-Varying Systems with Bounded Rate of Parameter Variation, Automatica , 2019.
Model Predictive Control using Efficient Gaussian Processes for Unknown Disturbance Inputs, in 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , 2019.
DOI: | 10.1109/cdc40024.2019.9030032 |
Bibtex: | @inproceedings{GrMaAbRo19, author={Jan Graßhoff and Georg Männel and Hossam S. Abbas and Philipp Rostalski}, booktitle={58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)}, title={Model Predictive Control using Efficient Gaussian Processes for Unknown Disturbance Inputs}, year={2019}, doi={10.1109/cdc40024.2019.9030032}, month={Dec}} |
Toward feedback temperature control for retinal laser treatment, in European Conferences on Biomedical Optics - Translation of Lasers and Biophotonics Technologies and Procedures: Toward the Clinic , Munich, Germany: SPIE, 2019.
An Automatic Feedback Temperature Control for Retinal Laser Treatments, in Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthalmol. Annu. Meet. 2019 , 2019.
2018
A New Approach to Robust MPC Design for LPV Systems in Input-Output Form, IFAC-PapersOnLine , vol. 51, no. 26, pp. 112--117, 2018.
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.159 |
File: | S2405896318328222 |
Bibtex: | @article{AbHaToMoMe18, author = {Abbas, Hossam S. and Hanema, Jurre and Toth, Roland and Mohammadpour, Javad and Meskin, Nader}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.159}, issn = {24058963}, journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine}, number = {26}, pages = {112--117}, title = {{A New Approach to Robust MPC Design for LPV Systems in Input-Output Form}}, url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2405896318328222}, volume = {51} } |
Fixed-Structure Controller Design for Time-Delayed LPV Systems in Input-Output Form, in Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision Contr. , IEEE, 2018. pp. 7058--7063.
DOI: | 10.1109/CDC.2018.8618986 |
ISBN: | 978-1-5386-1395-5 |
File: | |
Bibtex: | @inproceedings{LiAbMo2018, author = {Liu, Qin and Abbas, Hossam Seddik and Mohammadpour, Javad}, year = {2018}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision Contr.}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.2018.8618986}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1395-5}, pages = {7058--7063}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {{Fixed-Structure Controller Design for Time-Delayed LPV Systems in Input-Output Form}}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8618986/} } |
2017
An improved robust model predictive control for linear parameter-varying input-output models, Int. J. Rob. Nonlin. Contr. , 2017.
Fixed-structure LPV-IO controllers: An implicit representation based approach, Automatica , vol. 83, pp. 282--289, 2017.
2016
A Robust MPC for Input-Output LPV Models, IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr. , vol. 61, no. 12, pp. 4183--4188, 2016.
LPV model development and control of a solution copolymerization reactor, Contr. Eng. Prac. , vol. 48, pp. 98--110, 2016.
MPC for Linear Parameter-Varying Systems in Input-Output Representation, in Proc. IEEE Multi-Conf. Syst. Contr. , 2016. pp. 354--359.
2015
Linear Parameter-Varying Control of a Copolymerization Reactor, in 1st IFAC Workshop LPV Syst. , 2015.
2014
LPV state-feedback control of a control moment gyroscope, Contr. Eng. Prac. , vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 129--137, 2014.
Synthesis of LPV Controllers With Low Implementation Complexity Based on a Reduced Parameter Set, IEEE Trans. Contr. Syst. Technol. , vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 2393--2398, 2014.
Synthesis of LPV Controllers With Reduced Implementation Complexity, in Proc. Amer. Control Conf , 2014. pp. 3766--3771.
2013
Benchmark Problem - Nonlinear Control of a 3-DOF Robotic Manipulator, in Proc. 52nd IEEE Conf. Decision Control , 2013. pp. 5534--5539.
2012
Closed-Loop Stability and Performance Optimization in LPV Control Based on a Reduced Parameter Set, in Proc. 51st IEEE Conf. Decision Control , 2012. pp. 5146--5151.
Low-Complexity Linear Parameter-Varying Modeling and Control of a Robotic Manipulator, Contr. Eng. Prac. , vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 248--257, 2012.
2011
Frequency Weighted Discrete-Time LPV Model Reduction Using Structurally Balanced Truncation, IEEE Trans. Contr. Syst. Technol. , vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 140--147, 2011.
2010
Linear Parameter-Varying Modeling, Identification and Low-Complexity Controller Synthesis: Ph.D. Thesis, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, 2010.
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