Diagnostics and Control Laboratory
Dr. Mehrdad Saif
Diagnostics and Control Laboratory (DCL), located within the SFU Engineering Science Department, is headed by Dr. Mehrdad Saif. Dr. Saif's main areas of research are in systems and control, particularly in robust control/estimation, large scale systems and decentralized
control, and model based techniques to failure detection and isolation in control systems.
DCL Facility
Researchers
- Laboratory Head: Dr. Mehrdad Saif
- Post-Doc
- Ph.D.
- Hanlong Yang (Graduated summer 1997)
- Xiong Yi
- Mihai Lozoveanu
- M.A.Sc.
- Zhao Yaang (Graduated spring 1997)
- Paul Morozoff (Graduated spring 1997)
- Reza Afrasteh
Current Research Projects
- Failure Detection and Identification (FDI)
- Model-based approaches to FDI
- Fuzzy and neural network based approaches to FDI
- Knowledge based approaches to FDI
- Approaches to threshold selection
- Robust estimation techniques
- Robust estimators for FDI
- Adaptive estimators for FDI
- Linear and nonlinear estimation
- Automotive Applications
- Model-based approaches to IC engine diagnosis
- Automotive control applications
Recent Publications
Links of Interest