Muhammad Auwal Shehu

MUHAMMAD AUWAL SHEHU Department of Mechatronic Engineering, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano-/- ORCiD:- PERSONAL DATA Date of birth: 16th July, 1985 Sex: Male State of Origin: Kano L.G.A: Gwale L.G.A Nationality: Nigerian Marital Status: Married CORE COMPETENCIES ▪ Control Systems Design: Sliding Mode Control & Observation, IntelligentControl Systems, Underactuated Systems Control, T-S Fuzzy Parallel Distributed Compensation (PDC) Control. ▪ Modelling, Simulation and Design Skills: Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Engineering, MATLAB, Proteus, Arduino. ▪ Programming Skills: MATLAB, Arduino C++ Programming, Visual Basics. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Qualification 1. Master of Engineering (Mechatronics & Automatic Control) Awarding Institution Date Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) 2016 2. B.Eng.-Electrical Engineering (2-1 Honours) Bayero University Kano (BUK) 2012 3. Cisco IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software Centre for Information Technology, 2011 BUK 4. CAD and 3D Printing UTM 2015 PROFESSIONAL BODY MEMBERSHIP Chinese Association of Automation (中国自动化学会) WORK EXPERIENCE DURATION Lecturer at Kano State Polytechnic, Department of Mechatronic Engineering Tech. Research Assistant (RA) at Underactuated Systems Lab. at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), P.R. China Lecturer at Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Department of Mechatronic Engineering Tech. March 2018-Date ▪ Research Assistant (RA) for Micro-Nano Mechatronics Systems Research Group, UTM, Malaysia June-December, 2015 ▪ Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) II at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano 6 Months ▪ ▪ ▪ Nov. 2017-July 2022 April 2017-Nov. 2017 Teaching Modules at Polytechnics Level: ▪ MCE210: Fundamental of Mechatronics II ▪ MCE204: Automotive Electronics ▪ COM201: CAD & Drafting ▪ EEC115: Electrical Engineering Science ▪ MCE202: Electronic Devices & Circuits II ▪ MCE104: Electronic Devices & Circuits I Page | 1 INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED WITH DATES ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Bayero University Kano (BUK) Bayero University Staff Model Secondary School Bayero University Staff Model Primary School - JOURNAL ARTICLES/EDITED CONFERENCES 1. W. Shabbir, L. Aijun, M. Taimoor, C. Yuwei, M.A. Shehu, “Active Fault Tolerant Control for a UAV Subject to Sensor Faults Using Sliding Mode Control,” IEEE 8th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), Xiamen, China, April 8th-10th, 2022, pp. 375-380 2. M.A. Shehu, A. Li, “A Novel Smooth Super-Twisting Control Method for Perturbed Nonlinear DoublePendulum-Type Overhead Cranes” in Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering, pp. 1-15, 2021 3. B.B. Muhammad, M. Bashir, M.F. Hamza, M. Abdulhadi, M.A. Shehu, S.K Debnath, S. Bagchi, “A feedback controller for milling chatter vibration control using a new response matrix,” Journal of Vibration and Control, pp. 1-13, 2021 4. M.A. Shehu, A. Li, Y. Zeng, “Sliding Mode Control of Non-linear Double-Pendulum Overhead Cranes with Prescribed Trolley Convergence,” presented at 2020 International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control (ICGNC 2020), Tianjin, China, October 23th-25rd, 2020, pp. 1-12 5. M.A. Shehu, A. Li, B. Huang, “Comparative analysis of neural-network and fuzzy auto-tuning sliding mode controls for overhead cranes under payload and cable variations,” Journal of Control Science and Engineering, vol. 2019, (Article ID-), pp. 1-13, 2019 6. M.A. Shehu, A. Li, H. Tian, “Modified Higher-Order Sliding Mode Observer-Based Super-Twisting Controller for Perturbed Overhead Cranes,” 2019 Chinese Automation Congress (CAC), Hangzhou, China, 2019, pp. 255-260 7. A.B. Alhassan, M.A. Shehu, B.M. Othman, I.A. Shehu, “Comparison for Level Control of a Coupled- Tank using PI, PI-plus-Feedforward, and IMC Controllers,” International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 815-823, 2018 8. M.A. Rad, A.S. Tijjani, M.R. Ahmad, and S.M. Auwal, “Finite Element Analysis of Single Cell Stiffness Measurements Using PZT-Integrated Buckling Nanoneedles,” Sensors, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2017 9. A.S. Tijjani, M.A. Shehu, A.M. Alsabari, Y.A. Sambo, N.L. Tanko, “Performance Analysis for Coupled - Tank System Liquid Level Control Using MPC, PI and PI-plus-Feedforward Control Scheme,” Journalof Robotics and Automation, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-12, 2017 10. S.M. Auwal, B. Adebayor, A.S. Tijjani, B.B. Muhammad, K. Olayinka, K. Ibrahim, “A Comparative Study of Open-loop and Closed-loop Control Schemes for Hysteresis in a d33-mode Piezoelectric Actuator,” The International Journal of Engineering and Science, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 75-86, 2017 11. A. Alhassan, K.A. Danapalasingam, M. Shehu, A. Shehu, A.M. Abdullahi, “Closed-loop Schemes for Position and Sway Control of a Gantry Crane System,” International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science and Technology, vol. 17, no. 32, pp. 28 1-28.8, 2016 12. M. Shehu, M.R. Ahmad, A. Shehu, and A. Alhassan, “LQR, Double-PID and Pole Placement Stabilization and Tracking Control of Single Link Inverted Pendulum,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering, Penang, Malaysia, 2015, pp. 27–29 13. I.A. Shehu, M. Muhammed, A. Abdulkarim, M.A. Shehu, “Internal Model Control Performance Evaluation in Nonlinear Coupled Tank System,” Zaria Journal of Electrical Engineering Technology, vol. 9 no. 2, pp. 110, 2020 14. A. Alhassan, K.A. Danapalasingam, M. Shehu, A.M. Abdullahi, and A. Shehu, “Comparing the Performance of Sway Control Using ZV Input Shaper and LQR on Gantry Cranes,” Proceedings of the 9th Asia Modelling Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015, pp. 61–66 Page | 2