Funded Projects & Publications

Funded Projects

NRT-HDR: Integrative Training in Data Science-Enabled Sensing of the Environment for Climate Adaptation (DataSENSE)

2023-08-01 to 2028-07-31 | Grant

Directorate for STEM Education (Alexandria, US)

URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.13550472

GRANT_NUMBER: 2244403

Total funding amount

USD 1,999,992

Enabling the Future of Great Lakes Biological Resource Assessment

2023-09-01 to 2024-08-31 | USGS

URL:https://www.highergov.com/grant/G22AC00436/   

GRANT_NUMBER: G23AS00029 

Total funding amount

USD 1,147,338 

MRI: Acquisition of a GPU-accelerated cluster for research, training and outreach

2022-10-01 to 2024-09-30 | Grant

Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (Alexandria, US)

URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.12942415

GRANT_NUMBER: 2215734

Total funding amount

USD 432,111

Whirlpool - Refrigerator Door Gasket Verification Fixture

2021-12 to 2023-06 | Contract

Whirlpool (United States) (Benton Harbor, Michigan, US)

GRANT_NUMBER: 2107033P1

Total funding amount

USD 108,509

Publications

Selected Journal Papers:

• Al Maawali, W., Mesbah, M., Al Maashri, A. and Saleem, A., Design of intelligent thruster decision-making system for USVs. Ocean Engineering, 285, p.115431, 2023.

• A. Saleem, S. Paheding, N. Rawashdeh, A. Awad and N. Kaur, "A Non-Reference Evaluation of Underwater Image Enhancement Methods Using a New Underwater Image Dataset," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 10412-10428, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3240648.

• Mesbah, Mostefa, Muhammad Shafiq, Ashraf Saleem, Hassan Yousef, and Hisham Soliman. "A data-driven controller for position tracking of a long-stroke piezoelectric actuator." Microsystem Technologies 29, no. 2 (2023): 211-221.

• Soliman, H.M.; Saleem, A.; Bayoumi, E.H.E.; De Santis, M. Harmonic Distortion Reduction of Transformer-Less Grid-Connected Converters by Ellipsoidal-Based Robust Control. Energies 2023, 16, 1362. doi: 10.3390/en16031362

• Mesbah, M., Shafiq, M., Saleem, A. et al. A data-driven controller for position tracking of a long-stroke piezoelectric actuator. Microsyst Technol 29, 211–221 (2023). doi: 10.1007/s00542-022-05407-4.

• Ahmed Al Maashri, Ashraf Saleem, Hadj Bourdoucen, Omer Eldirdiry, Ahmed Al Ghadani, A novel drone-based system for accurate human temperature measurement and disease symptoms detection using thermography and AI, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Volume 27, 100787, 2022.

• Mohammed Salah and Ashraf Saleem, “Hysteresis compensation-based robust output feedback control for long-stroke piezoelectric actuators at high frequency”, Sensors and Actuators: Physical A, V319 (112542) 2021.

• Ashraf Saleem, Mostefa Mesbah, Mohammed Shafiq, “Feedback-feedforward control for high-speed trajectory tracking of an amplified piezoelectric actuator” Smart Mater. Struct. Volume 30, Number 2, 2020. 

• Hisham M Soliman, Ashraf Saleem, Ellipsoidal design of robust tracking controller for large-stroke piezoelectric actuators, Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 29, Number 7, 2020.

• Ashraf Saleem, Ahmed Al Maashri, Muna A. Al-Rahbi, Medhat Awadallah and Hadj Bourdoucen, “Cooperative Cruise Controller For Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Vehicle Platoon System”, International Journal of Automotive Technology, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1131-1143, 2019.

• Hassan A Yousef, Mohamed Hamdy, Ashraf Saleem, Kyrillos Nashed, Mustafa Mesbah,  Mohammed Shafiq, “Enhanced L1 adaptive control for a benchmark piezoelectric-actuated system via fuzzy approximation”, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol 33, pp. 1329–1343, 2019.

• Khurshid Alam, Ahmed Al-Ghaithi, Sujan Piya, Ashraf Saleem, “In-vitro experimental study of histopathology of bone in vibrational drilling”, Medical Engineering & Physics, Vol 67, pp. 78-87, 2019.

• Morteza Mohammadzaheri, Mohammadreza Emadi, Mojtaba Ghodsi, Ehsan Jamshidi, Issam Bahadur, Ashraf Saleem, Musaab Zarog, “A variable-resistance digital charge estimator for piezoelectric actuators: An alternative to maximise accuracy and curb voltage drop”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 1699–1705, 2019.

• Mohammed Shafiq, Ashraf Saleem, Mostefa Mesbah, “Model-free data driven control for trajectory tracking of an amplified piezoelectric actuator”, Sensors and Actuators: Physical A, Vol. 279, pp. 27–35, 2018.

•  Ashraf Saleem, Hisham Soliman, Serein Al-Ratrout, Mostefa Mesbah, “Design of fractional order PID controller with application to induction motor drive”, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 26, pp. 2768 – 2778 , 2018.

Selected Conference Papers

• Saleem, A., Awad, A., Paheding, S. and Marcarelli, A., Multi-class plant type detection in Great Lakes region using remotely operated vehicle and deep learning. In Pattern Recognition and Tracking XXXIV (Vol. 12527, pp. 34-40). SPIE, 2023.

• A. A. Maashri, A. Al Maashri; J. Ghommam; A. Saleem; N. Nasiri; O. Eldirdiry; H. Bourdoucen; G. Al Rawas; A. Al-Kamzari; A. Ammari,  "A Multi-Drone System for Oil Spill Detection: A Simulation and Emulation Platform," 2022 22nd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Jeju, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 397-402, doi: 10.23919/ICCAS55662.2022.10003840.

• J. Rathbum, A. Sharky, P. Urunkar, A. Saleem and P. Hazaveh, "Developing a Climbing Assistive Exoskeleton*," 2023 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), Charlottesville, VA, USA, 2023, pp. 102-107 

• Ashraf Saleem, Ahmed Al Maashri, Omer Eldirdiry, Jawhar Ghommam, Hadj Bourdoucen, Amran Al-Kamzari, Ghazi Al Rawas, Ahmed Ammari “Detection of Oil Spill Pollution in Seawater Using Drones: Simulation & Lab-based Experimental Study”, 2021 IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS), Canada, 2021.

• Mohammad Salah, Ashraf Saleem, Backstepping Position Control of High Frequency Piezoelectric Actuator Used in Ultrasonically Assisted Manufacturing, 4th IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), Penang, Malaysia, 2020.

• Ashraf Saleem, Khadija Al Jabri, Ahmed Al Maashri, Waleed Al Maawali, Mostafa Mesbah, Obstacle-Avoidance Algorithm Using Deep Learning Based on RGBD Images and Robot Orientation, 7th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE), Antalya, Turkey, 2020.

• Ashraf Saleem, Musabah Al Hattali, Mohammed Shafiq, Issam Bahadur, “Precise Tracking Control for Piezoelectric Actuators using Feedforward/Feedback Learning-based Controller”, 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), Paris, France, April, 2019. (Outcome from grant IG/ENG/ECED/15/01)

• Waleed Al Maawali, Ahmed Al Naabi, Majid Al Yaruubi, Ashraf Saleem, Ahmed Al Maashri, “Design and Implementation of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Oil Spill Handling”, 1st  IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Vehicle Systems-Oman (UVS), 5-7 Feb. 2019

• Morteza Mohammadzaheri, Hamidreza Ziaiefar, Mojtaba Ghodsi, Issam Bahadur, Musaab Zarog, Ashraf Saleem, Mohammadreza Emadi, Adaptive Charge Estimation of Piezoelectric Actuators, a Radial Basis Function Approach, 20th IEEE International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM), 23-24 May, Austria, 2019