Amr Alanwar
I am an assistant professor at the Technical University of Munich - Heilbronn Campus. Prior to that, I was an assistant professor at Jacobs University - Bremen. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, working with Prof Karl Henrik Johansson. I earned my Ph.D. in 2020 with the Cyber-Physical Systems Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Althoff at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Prior to that, I was a research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I also worked as an engineer in Mentor Graphics Egypt and Morpho, Egypt. My current research interests include safety, privacy, and general Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) topics.
Contact: alanwar@tum.de
Recent News:
I am invited to give a talk about logical zonotopes at the International Online Seminar on Interval Methods in Control Engineering on 2.2.2024. Check (link) for more information.
Open Position: PhD Position in Safety Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems.
Our two papers Resilient Set-based State Estimation for Linear Time-Invariant Systems Using Zonotopes and Robust Data-Driven Predictive Control of Unknown Nonlinear Systems using Reachability Analysis are selected for the ECC Special Issue of the European Journal of Control, among the best-submitted papers of European Control Conference (ECC 2023).
Our journal paper "Data-Driven Reachability Analysis from Noisy Data" is accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Read the paper and try out its code (link).
Our journal paper "Distributed Set-Based Observers Using Diffusion Strategies" is accepted in Journal of the Franklin Institute. Read the paper and try out its code (link).
Our journal paper "Privacy Preserving Set-Based Estimation Using Partially Homomorphic Encryption" is accepted in the European Journal of Control. Read the paper and try out its code (link).
I serve as an Associate Editor at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
Our three papers:
Resilient Set-based State Estimation for Linear Time-Invariant Systems Using Zonotopes
Robust Data-Driven Predictive Control of Unknown Nonlinear Systems using Reachability Analysis
Differentially Private Set-Based Estimation using Zonotopes
are accepted in the European Control Conference (ECC 2023).
Try out our new set representation, named logical zonotope, for binary vector to decrease the complexity of your exhaustive search over binary vectors or to represent uncertainty in logic. Please find the Paper and code.
Our paper "Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Black-Box Reachability Analysis" is accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. The source code is available at the following link. You can also watch the video that summarizes the paper on YouTube.
Watch the video (YouTube link) for our paper "Enhancing Data-Driven Reachability Analysis using Temporal Logic Side Information" which is accepted in the IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA 2022).
Our paper Robust Data-Driven Predictive Control using Reachability Analysis is accepted at the ECC Special Issue of European Journal of Control among the best invited papers of European Control Conference (ECC 2022). Watch the video that summarizes the paper on YouTube and play with our source code at Github,
Watch the video of our paper Data-Driven Set-Based Estimation using Matrix Zonotopes with Set Containment Guarantees on YouTube and play with our source code at Github,
Our four papers:
Privacy Guarantees for Cloud-based State Estimation using Partially Homomorphic Encryption
Data-driven Set-based Estimation of Polynomial Systems with Application to SIR Epidemics
Robust Data-Driven Predictive Control using Reachability Analysis
Data-Driven Set-Based Estimation using Matrix Zonotopes with Set Containment Guarantees
are accepted in the European Control Conference (ECC 2022).
Our paper "Set-Membership Estimation in Shared Situational Awareness for Automated Vehicles in Occluded Scenarios" is accepted in 32nd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
The source code for our new paper "Robust Data-Driven Predictive Control using Reachability Analysis" is available at the following (link).
Our paper "Data-Driven Reachability Analysis Using Matrix Zonotopes" is accepted in Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference L4DC 2021.
The source code for our new paper "Data-Driven Reachability Analysis Using Matrix Zonotopes" is available at the following (link).
We are looking for a student interested in Cyclops in order to integrate it with BeagleBoard.org default images as illustrated in (link).
The source code for our paper "Privacy Preserving Set-Based Estimation Using Partially Homomorphic Encryption" is online (link).
Our paper Event-Triggered Diffusion Kalman Filters is accepted in 11th ACM/IEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2020 - CPS week) (acceptance rate 24/101 = 23.7%).
The source code for our paper Event-Triggered Diffusion Kalman Filters is online (link).
The source code for our paper Distributed Set-Based Observers Using Diffusion Strategy is online (link).
The source code of our paper "CryptoImg: Privacy preserving processing over encrypted images" is online (link).
We got the first place in grad slam at TUM graduate school competition September 2019.
The Presentation for the Final day of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2018 for our proposal TNT (Trusted Notion of Time) can be found at this link (YouTube).
We make it again all the way to the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QlnF) Finalist 2018 (UCLA Newsroom). Our proposal "TNT: Trusted Notion of Time for Resilient Autonomous Driving" is in the QInF Finalist 2018!. (Acceptance rate 30/174 = 17.2%). Excited to compete :). Good luck to all the finalists!
Our two proposals:
A- SecSens: Secure State Estimation for Reliable Autonomous Driving
B- TNT: Trusted Notion of Time for Resilient Autonomous Driving
are selected for the second phase of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QlnF) 2018. (Acceptance rate 70/174 = 40.2%)
Our paper "PrOLoc: resilient localization with private observers using partial homomorphic encryption" won the best Demonstration Paper Award at 2017 IPSN/CPSWeek - The 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). (Collaboration with IBM)
NESL is in dailybruin news (link).
Our paper "D-SLATS: Distributed Simultaneous Localization and Time Synchronization" is accepted at MobiHoc 2017 (Acceptance rate=15%). The presentation can be found at this link (YouTube).
The Final Presentation for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2017 of our proposal PLoTS can be found at this link (YouTube).
Our proposal "PLoTS: Power Efficient Localization and Time Synchronization" is in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist, 2017. (Acceptance rate 33/116 = 28.4%)
The progress of Roseline, a NSF research project that I am part of, can be found at this link (YouTube).
The Presentation of our paper Cyclops: PRU Programming Framework for Precise Timing Applications can be found at this link (YouTube). The source code is at link.