Robust Control Design of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Assistant Robot

Magdi S. Mahmoud obtained B.Sc. (Honors) in communication engineering, M.Sc. in electronic engineering and Ph.D. in systems engineering, all from Cairo University in 1968, 1972, and 1974, respectively. He has been a Professor of engineering since 1984. He is now a Distinguished Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK ((Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of thirty-seven books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 565 peerreviewed papers. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered consultant engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt). He received the Science State Incentive Prize for outstanding research in engineering (1978, 1986), the State Medal for Science and Art, First Class (1978), and the State Distinction Award (1986), Egypt. He was awarded the Abdulhamed Showman Prize for Young Arab Scientists in the field of Engineering Sciences (1986), Jordan. In 1992, he received the Distinguished Engineering Research AWARD, College of Engineering and Petroleum, Kuwait University (1992), Kuwait.
He is co-winner of the Most Cited Paper Award 2009, Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 1, 2006, pp. 140-152. His papers were selected among the 40 best papers in electrical & electronic engineering by the Web of Science ISI in July 2012. He was interviewed for "People in Control", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2010. He served as Guest Editor for the special issue Neural Networks and Intelligent Systems in Neurocomputing and Guest Editor for the 2015 International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD 2015), 18-20 October, 2015, Manama, Bahrain.
He is a Regional Editor (Middle East and Africa) of International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (JSCC), Inderscience Publishers since 2007, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (NACO), Australia, since 2010, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), since 2011, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Management, USA, since 2012 and an Academic Member of Athens Institute for Education and Research, Greece, since 2015. Since 2016, he is an Editor of the Journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Company, USA.
He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networkedcontrol systems, triggering mechanisms in dynamical systems, fault-tolerant systems and information technology, (e-mail:msmahmoud@kfupm.edu.sa)

Mohamed T. Nasir is a Ph.D. candidate in control and system engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. He finished his master degree from Jordan University of Science and Technology in mechatronics engineering. and his bachelor degree from the University of Jordan. His current interests include robotics and control system design, (e-mail: g201207520@kfupm.edu.sa)