Mohd Ashraf Ahmad

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Mohd Ashraf Ahmad is a prominent researcher specializing in robotics, control systems, and intelligent control strategies, with particular expertise in flexible manipulators, nonlinear systems, and advanced algorithmic optimization. His work has made significant contributions to the field of robotic control, most notably through his investigations into dynamic modelling and control of flexible robot manipulators — a challenging domain where joint elasticity and structural complexity demand sophisticated approaches beyond conventional methods. Ahmad's most-cited work, "Dynamic Modelling and Characterisation of a Two-Link Flexible Robot Manipulator" (2010, 43 citations), established foundational insights into planar flexible systems incorporating structural damping and payload dynamics. Complementing this, his development of composite fuzzy logic and hybrid intelligent control schemes (41 citations) offered practical solutions for trajectory tracking in elastically jointed systems. His comparative studies on two-wheels balancing robots further demonstrated his breadth across nonlinear control challenges. More recently, Ahmad has advanced data-driven PID tuning through adaptive optimization algorithms and contributed to multi-robot coordination and fractional-order system identification, reflecting his evolution toward cutting-edge computational methods. With a body of work accumulating hundreds of citations, Ahmad's research continues to meaningfully shape modern robotics and intelligent control engineering.

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1. 1
   Dynamic Modelling and Characterisation of a Two-Link Flexible Robot Manipulator

   43 citations · 2010
2. 2
   Composite Fuzzy Logic Control Approach to a Flexible Joint Manipulator

   41 citations · 2013
3. 3
   PD Fuzzy Logic with non-collocated PID approach for vibration control of flexible joint manipulator

   32 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Performance Comparison between Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) and PID Controller for a Highly Nonlinear Two-Wheels Balancing Robot

   28 citations · 2011
5. 5
   The Control Of A Highly Nonlinear Two-Wheels Balancing Robot: A Comparative Assessment Between Lqr And Pid-Pid Control Schemes

   28 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Data-based PID control of flexible joint robot using adaptive safe experimentation dynamics algorithm

   25 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Hybrid Input Shaping and Feedback Control Schemes of a Flexible Robot Manipulator

   24 citations · 2008
8. 8
   Broadcast control of multi-robot systems with norm-limited update vector

   21 citations · 2020
9. 9
   Smoothed Functional Algorithm with Norm-limited Update Vector for Identification of Continuous-time Fractional-order Hammerstein Models

   17 citations · 2022
10. 10
    The direct strain feedback With PID control approach for a flexible manipulator: Experimental results

    16 citations · 2011

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