Dr Allahyar Montazeri

Senior Lecturer

Research Overview

Allahyar Montazeri is a Senior Lecturer in Control and Electronics Engineering at Engineering Department at Lancaster. His industrial experience includes Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (FhG-IDMT) and Bosch industries. Before this appointment he was research fellow with Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany, and Control Engineering Group at Ilmenau University of Technology. He is recipient of Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship award in 2011 and European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics fellowship award in 2010. He had collaboration with Bosch industries for development of active noise and vibration control algorithms for automotive sector and has been invited as guest lecturer for the Master Program in Communication and Signal Processing, Ilmenau, Germany since 2012. He was visiting research fellow at Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH, Zurich and Process Control Group, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

His research interests cover a wide range of areas on control theory and digital signal processing. Particularly he is interested in Adaptive Signal Processing and Control, Robust Control, Linear and Nonlinear System Identification, Estimation Theory, and Evolutionary Computing and Optimization with applications in Active Noise and Vibration Control Systems, Robotics, and Wave Energy Conversion.

He has been author and co-author of more than 110 papers in international journals and conferences and is serving actively as reviewer. Due to his rich experience in the design of mechatronics systems, he has been invited to Chair the session on Adaptive Control of Mechatronics Systems at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (FL, USA 2011). He is currently Associate Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Computational Intelligence in Electrical Engineering, Topical Advisory Panel of Automation MDPI, and serving IFAC Technical Committees 'Adaptive and Learning Systems' and 'Modelling, Identification, and Signal Processing'.

Advanced Control of Human-Robot Interaction in Extreme Environments: From Theory to Application
Invited talk

Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Journal)
Editorial activity

International Conference on Nonlinearity, Information, and Robotics
Participation in conference - Public

Emerging Challenges for Robotics and Autonomous Systems in the Industry 4 Environment
Invited talk

Distributed Robust Synchronization Control of Heterogeneous Multiple Quadcopters with an Active Virtual Leader
Invited talk

A Nonlinear Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Controller for Autonomous Navigation of an Aerial Vehicle Using Hector SLAM
Invited talk

Adaptive Integral Terminal Sliding Mode Control for the Nonlinear Active Vehicle Suspension System under External Disturbances and Uncertainties
Invited talk

Robust Formation Control and Trajectory Tracking of Multiple Quadrotors Using a Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control Technique
Invited talk

AES International Automotive Audio Conference 2022
Participation in conference - Academic

6th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems
Participation in conference - Academic

IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision ad Information Technology
Participation in conference - Academic

Digital Manufacturing Technology (Journal)
Editorial activity

Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Journal)
Editorial activity

Electronics (Switzerland) (Journal)
Editorial activity

Automation (Journal)
Editorial activity

Progress in Nuclear Energy (Journal)
Publication peer-review

European Control Conference 2021 (Event)
Publication peer-review

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Journal)
Publication peer-review

International Conference on Nonlinearity, Information, and Robotics
Participation in conference - Academic

59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC 2020) (Event)
Publication peer-review

International Conference on Nonlinearity, Information, and Robotics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

148 Audio Engineering Society Convention
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Emerging Challenges in Autonomous Cyber‐Physical Systems
Invited talk

Robotics and Control Problems in Cyber-Physical Systems
Invited talk

International conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics
Participation in conference - Academic

The 9th International Scientific Conference on Physics and Control
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

9th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modeling, Management and Control
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

A Multi-Objective Optimisation Approach in Autonomous Systems
Invited talk

Event-Triggered Based State Estimation for Autonomous Operation of an Aerial Robotic Vehicle
Invited talk

A Data-Driven Statistical Approach for Monitoring and Analysis of Large Industrial Processes
Invited talk

Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Parameter Optimization of a 7-DOF Robotic Manipulator
Invited talk

L1 adaptive controller design for nuclear robots in the presence of loss data, time delay and uncertainty
Invited talk

Output Feedback Sliding Mode Control of Quadcopter using IMU Navigation
Oral presentation

IEEE 2019 International Conference on Mechatronics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics
Participation in conference - Academic

Humboldt Colloquium Moving Forward-UK Germany Research Network
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

An Investigation of the Wiener Approach for Nonlinear System Identification Benchmarks
Oral presentation

2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (Event)
Publication peer-review

Optimal Input Excitation Design for Non-parametric Uncertainty Quantification of Multi-Input Multi-Output System'
Invited talk

Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Oral presentation

State-Dependent Parameter Model Identification for Inverse Dead-Zone Control of a Hydraulic Manipulator
Invited talk

An Investigation of the Wiener Approach for Nonlinear System Identification Benchmarks
Invited talk

High Performance Grasping and Manipulation for Robots in Extreme Environments
Invited talk

12th IFAC SYMPOSIUM on ROBOTIC CONTROL
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Frequency Domain Subspace Identification of Multivariable Dynamical Systems for Robust Control Design
Oral presentation

The 18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IFAC 2017 World Congress (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Progress in Nuclear Energy (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Optimal Control Applications and Methods (Journal)
Publication peer-review

2017 5th International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, and Automation (Event)
Membership of committee

IFAC Technical Committee on Adaptive and Learning Systems (External organisation)
Membership of committee

IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification, and Signal Processing (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Signal Processing (Journal)
Publication peer-review

2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Energies (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control (Journal)
Publication peer-review

American Control Conference 2016
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The 2016 AES International Conference on Sound Field Control
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

15th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

2016 American Control Conference (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

European Control Conference 2015 (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

IEEE Signal Processing Letters (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Neural Computing and Applications (Journal)
Publication peer-review

54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Automatica (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control (Journal)
Publication peer-review

53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Journal of Vibration and Control (Journal)
Publication peer-review

11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics - Barcelona, Spain
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Ilmenau University of Technology, Master of Science in Communication and Signal Processing Program
Visiting an external academic institution

52d IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

European Control Conference 2013 (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

European Control Conference 2014 (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Ilmenau University of Technology, Master of Science in Communication and Signal Processing Program
Visiting an external academic institution

European Signal Processing Conference 2012 (EUSPICO 2012) (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Automatica (Journal)
Publication peer-review

International Journal of Control (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Ilmenau University of Technology, Master of Science in Communication and Signal Processing Program
Visiting an external academic institution

50th IEEE Conference of Decision and Control (CDC)/European Control Conference (ECC)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Visiting an external academic institution

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Visiting an external academic institution

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
National/international honour

ERCIM Research Fellow
Fellowship awarded competitively

Humboldt Research Fellow
Fellowship awarded competitively

Travel Grant Award
Prize (including medals and awards)

Best Poster Award
Prize (including medals and awards)

Outstanding Associate Editor in 2023
Other distinction

  • Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL)
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing
  • Robotics and Control