Recent Papers
- Linearized Flight Dynamics of Vertical
Lift-off
High Speed Vehicles, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies
Conference, Austin, USA, August
2003. (with
M. Mughal and M. Shahzad)
- Modeling and Simulation of
Flexibility Induced Disturbances
for a Flying Rocket, 16th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in
Aerospace, St
Petersburg, Russia, June 2004. (with M. Mughal and A. Khan)
- Aero-model for Subsonic Flight
of an Aircraft using Wind
Tunnel Data, International Bhurban Conference on Applied
Sciences &
Technology (Control & Simulation session), June 2004. (with M.
Mughal)
Academic Honors & Awards
- Gold
Medal & Nishan-e-Haider scholarship for securing 1st
position in Pakistan in the Higher Secondary School Certificate
Examination conducted by the Federal Board of Intermediate &
Secondary Education (1986)
- Allama
Iqbal Gold Medal for securing 1st position in
Pakistan in the competitive exam conducted by the Ministry of
Education, Pakistan (1986)
- President's
Gold Medal for securing 1st position in B.Sc.
Electrical Engineering in the College of Electrical & Mechanical
Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (1990)
- Science
& Technology scholarship of the Government of Pakistan for
M.S. & Ph.D. studies (1991)
- Overseas
Research Students award of the British government for Ph.D.
studies (1994-!995)
Selected Past Research/Papers
- Design & implementation of multivariable discrete time
H-infinity robust controllers for the Rolls Royce Spey test engine at
the
Defence Research Agency, Pyestock, England
- Raza Samar, Ghassan Murad, Ian
Postlethwaite
and Da-Wei Gu. “A Discrete Time H-infinity Observer-Based
Controller and its
Application to a Glass Tube Production Process”, European
Journal of Control,
vol 2, 1996
- Raza Samar, Ian
Postlethwaite
and Da-Wei Gu. “Model Reduction with Balanced
Realizations”, International
Journal of Control, vol 62, no 1, 1995
- Raza Samar, Ghassan Murad, Ian
Postlethwaite
and Da-Wei Gu. “A Discrete Time H-infinity Observer-Based
Controller and its
Application to an Aero-Engine”, American Control Conference, 1995
- Ian
Postlethwaite, Raza Samar, Byung-Wook
Choi and Da-Wei Gu.
“A Digital Multi-Mode H-infinity
Controller for the Spey Turbofan Engine”, European Control
Conference, 1995
- Ghassan Murad, Ian
Postlethwaite, Da-Wei
Gu and Raza Samar. “On
the Structure of an H-infinity
Two-Degree-of-Freedom Internal Model-Based Controller & Its
Application to
a Glass Tube Production Process”, European Control Conference,
1995
- Raza Samar, Ian
Postlethwaite. “Multivariable
Controller Design
for a High Performance Aero-Engine”, IEE
International Conference Control ’94, University
of Warwick, UK,
March 1994
- Da-Wei Gu, Raza Samar, Byung-Wook Choi and Ian
Postlethwaite. “Model Reduction
in Aero-Engine
Control”, First Asian Control Conference, Tokyo,
Japan, July 1994
- Raza Samar, Ian
Postlethwaite
and Da-Wei Gu. “Applications of the Singular Perturbation
Approximation of
Balanced Systems”, The Third IEEE Conference on Control
Applications, University of Strathclyde,
UK,
August 1994
Raza Samar
(raza@mail.comsats.net.pk) / January 2007.
