Name: Yousef Al-Sweiti, Ph.D.

             Assistance Professor

                             Address: Wadi Al Hareih
             Office: B309
                                                       Fax: (00972) 02 22330068 – Ext 238

                              Tel: (00972) 02 2221099
                                E-mail: yousefs@ppu.edu 

     Area of specialization: Modeling and Control of Elastic Structures

     Courses  

    Scientific Interests:

·      Modeling and control of elastic structures

·      Control of ship mounted cranes

·      Control of robot manipulators

·      Design of mechanical elements

     Publications:

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., Söffker, D. “Modeling and Simulation of an elastic ship-mounted crane,” DETC 2005 ASME 20th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), Long Beach, California, 2005,  DETC 2005-84580.

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., Söffker, D., “Modeling and Control of an Elastic Ship-mounted crane using variable Gain Model Based Controller,” Proc. 5th IMACS Symposium on Mathematical Modeling, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, February 6-8, 2006.

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., Söffker, D., “Modeling and control of an elastic ship-mounted crane using variable-gain model-based controller,” Proceedings of the I MECH E Part K Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, Volume 220, Number 4, 2006, pp. 239-255(17)

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., Söffker, D., “Planar cargo control of elastic ship cranes with the Maryland Rigging system,” Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 13, No. 3, 241-267 (2007).

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., Söffker, D., Modeling and Control of an Elastic Ship-Mounted Crane Using Variable Gain Model-Based Controller. Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 13, Number 5, 2007, pp. 657-685.

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., Söffker, D., “Cargo pendulation suppression of ship cranes with elastic booms” MCMDS-Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modeling of Dynamical Systems, Vol. 13, Issue 6 Dec. 2007, pp. 503-529.

·     Al-Sweiti, Y., “Modeling and Control of an Elastic Ship-Mounted Crane Using Variable-Gain Model-Based Controller,” Dr.-Ing thesis, Engineering Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2006.