NCBL

University of alberta

Tarek Dief

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About me

I graduated in 2012 from Cairo University, in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering. Following my PhD research on modeling and simulation for kite power systems at Kyushu University, then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University for 2 years. My research was on Airborne Wind Energy with a particular focus on design and manufacture of a small-scale kite power system (10 kW). In 2020, I worked as an aircraft development engineer in PD Aerospace Company in Japan for more than 8 months. Currently, I am working as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Alberta. 

Supervisors

Dr. Hossein Rouhani

Dr. Chester Ho.

Research Interests

  • Wearable sensors technology

  • FES

  • Instrumented glove

  • System identifications

  • Robotics

  • Autonomous drones.

education

  • PhD, 2014-2017, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan

  • Concentration: Adaptive Flight-Path Control of Kite Power System.

  • MSc, 20112-2014, Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University Cairo, Egypt

  • Concentration: Design and Manufacturing of Quad-Rotor with Autopilot.

  • BSc, 2007-2012, Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University Cairo, Egypt

  • Concentration: Control and System Dynamics.

Project

  • Develop user-friendly, wearable sensor technology for remote health monitoring of patients with neurological conditions to minimize their hospital visits and reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread.

  • Functional electrical stimulation (FES), is a technique that uses low-energy electrical pulses to artificially generate body movements in individuals.

Awards

  • MEXT full scholarship to fund the PhD courses at Kyushu University, Japan.  

  • NEDO scholarship to support the research of postdoc at Kyushu University, Japan. 

Publications

1- Dief, T. N., Fechner, U., Schmehl, R., Yoshida, S., ’Adaptive Flight-Path-Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems’, Energies, 13 (3), 2020.

2- Rushdi, M., Dief, T. N., Schemhl, R., Yoshida, S., Fujimoto, D., Sawano, K., ‘Towing test data of the Kyushu University kite system’, MDPI Data 5, no. 3 (2020): 69.

3- Rushdi, M., Rushdi, A., Dief, T. N., Schemhl, R., Halawa, A., Yoshida, S., ‘Power Prediction using Multivariate Machine Learning Airborne Wind Energy Systems Energies’, Energies, April 2020.

4- Rushdi, M., Dief, T. N., Halawa, A., Yoshida, S., ‘System Identification of a 6 m2 Kite Power System in Fixed Tether Length Operation’, International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE), August 2020.

5- Dief, T. N., Fechner, U., Schmehl, R., Yoshida, S., Ismaiel, A. M., Halawa, A. M., ’System Identification, Fuzzy Control, and Simulation Results for Fixed length Tether of Kite Power System’, Wind Energy Science, vol.3 (1) 2017, pp. 275-291, 2018.

6- Dief, T. N., Kamra, M., Yoshida, S., ’Modeling and System Identification for the Tethered Unmanned Quad-Rotor with Robust PID-A Controller’, International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE), 10(4), 2017.

7- Dief, T. N., Kassem, A., El Baioumi, G., ’Modeling and Attitude Stabilization of Indoor Quad Rotor’, International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE), 7(2), pp. 43-47, 2014.

8- Ali, H., Abdelhady, M., Dief, T. N., ’Modelling and Control Design of Rover Vehicle Using Classic and Adaptive Control’, International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE), 7(4), pp. 116-123, 2014.

9- Dief, T. N., Kassem, A., El Baioumi, G., ’Modeling, Robustness, and Attitude Stabilization of Indoor Quad Rotor Using Fuzzy Logic Control’, International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE), 7(6), pp. 192-201, 2014.

10- Abdelkhalek, M. A., El-Demerdash, M. S., El-Tahan, A. A., Dief, T. N., ’Attitude Stability of Quadcopter Using Classic Control with Angular Acceleration’, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology and Security (IJCSITS), ISSN: 2249-9555 Vol. 5(4), 2015.