Anas Abdelkarim

Title: "Development of Numerical Solvers based on Interior-Point Method for Online Optimization with Application for MBC-based Adaptive Cruise Control"

Laboratory: controlling a production plant with a programmable logic controller (PLC) based on Petri Net interpreted signals (SIPN). Tasks and Responsibilities: - Correction and debugging of proposed students’ controllers. - Training of students on the practical implementations in Step 7/Siemens.

Research on optimal scheduling of preventive maintenance for safety instrumented systems. Detailed achievements: - Formulation of the optimization problem as mixed-integer programming and solving it with a specialized solver.

Cooperation Mobile Robot Project Detailed achievements: - Mechanical design and stability analysis for the robot’s platform in SolidWorks. - Setup of Laser scanner and Depth Camera in Jetson Board/Linux OS. - Electrical system: planning and implantation. - CAN-bus implementation for service data objects (SDOs) protocol using a customized C++ code.

Sales and technical support for: - DPN-Check device: detects neuropathy for dietetic patients at an early stage based on the nerve conduction. - Carilex V.T device: negative pressure wound therapy device. - MatriDerm: a dermal substitute for tissue regeneration. -PolyMem: advanced wound dressing.

Tasks and Responsibilities - Sales, installation and service for Nihon Kohden medical instruments: patient monitors, EEG, ECG, EMG and Defibrillators. - Sales for Sonoscape Ultrasound instruments.

Model Predictive Control, Optimization