Hanafy Omar Webpage

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Dr. Hanafy M. Omar

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering Department

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Education	Courses Taught
Research	Awards
Contact

Education

Ph. D. Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, , USA, 2003

M. S. Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 1997

B. S. Aerospace Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 1994

Courses Taught

AE 414	Air Traffic Control & Safety
AE 426	Flight Dynamics
AE 499	Fundamentals of Helicopter
AE 328	Flight Structure I
AE 428	Flight Structure II
AE 333	Aerodynamics I

Research Areas:

Flight Dynamics, Guidance and Navigation, Intelligent control, active vibration control

Representative Publications:

Papers Published in Referred Conference Proceedings:

Hassan S. D. , El-Bayoumi,G .E., Omar H. M. “Adaptation of the Classical PID and Fuzzy Controllers,”, 6^th conference on theoretical and applied mechanics, Cairo, Egypt, 1999, pp. 225-241. .

Hassan S. D. , El-Bayoumi, G. E., Omar H M “Application of Fuzzy Logic Control to the Spacecraft Attitude Control,” 6^th conference on theoretical and applied mechanics, Cairo, Egypt, 1999, pp. 242-2258.

Omar, H. M.., and Kunz, D. L., "A Comparison Study of the Performance of a Saturation Absorber and Classical Vibration Control Methods," CEAS/AIAA/ICASE/NASA Langley International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 1999, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 1999.

Omar, H. M.., Nayfeh, A. H. “A Simple Adaptive Feedback Controller for Tower Cranes,” ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference Pittsburgh, PA, September 9-12, DETC2001/VIB-21606,2001 (download).

H. M. Omar and A. H. Nayfeh, \Gantry Cranes Gain Scheduling Control with Friction Compensation," 39th Annual Techncial Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Penn State University, PA, October 13-16, 2002.

Saguanrum, S., Kunz, D.L. and Omar, H. M., "Numerical Simulations of Cantilever Beam Response with Saturation Control and Full Piezoelectric Coupling," AIAA Paper No. 2002-1624, 10th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2002.

Omar, H. M., Nayfeh, A. H. “Gantry Cranes Gain Scheduling Feedback Control with Friction Compensation”, accepted for publication in AIAA conference, April 2002, Norfolk, VA.

Omar, H.M. "Suggestions about the Role of Universities in Technology Transfer for the Arab World "RSAF Ground Support Equipment and Spare Parts Exhibition, 17th-20th December 2005.(download)

Omar, H.M. "Designing A Genetic-Based FLC For Fast Attitude Control Of Satellites with Reaction Wheels", Second International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO-07, Abu-Dhabi, March 24-27, 2007. (download)

Omar, H.M, "Genetic-Based Fuzzy Logic Controller for Satellites Stabilized by Reaction Wheels and Gravity Gradient", AIAA-2007-6445, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit, North Carolina, August 20-23, 2007.

Papers Published in Referred Journals:

Omar, H. M., Nayfeh, A. H. “Gain Scheduling Adaptive Controller for Tower Cranes”, Journal of Vibration and Control, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 399-417, March 2003.

Saguanrum, S., Kunz, D.L. and Omar, H. M., " Numerical Simulations of Cantilever Beam Response with Saturation Control and Full Modal Coupling," Journal of Computer and Structures, June, vol. 81, no. 14, pp 1499 – 1510, June 2003

Omar, H. M., Nayfeh, A. H. ``Gain Scheduling Feedback Control of Tower
Cranes with Friction Compensation," Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2004, pp. 269-289.

Omar, H. M., Nayfeh, A. H. “Gantry Cranes Gain Scheduling Feedback Control with Friction Compensation”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2003.

Omar, H. M., Nayfeh, A. H. “Anti-Swing Control of Gantry and Tower Cranes Using Fuzzy and Time-Delayed Feedback with Friction Compensation”, Journal of Shock and Vibration, 2003. (download) .

Awards

Egyptian Engineering Syndicate Award for Excellence in Aerospace Engineering, 1994.

Honor Degree from Cairo University, Egypt, 1994.

Contact

	Tel: 966-3-860 1858 (Office)
	Fax: 966-3-860 6240 (Aerospace Department)
	E-mail: hmomar@kfupm.edu.sa