Homepage of Ahsan Qamar
Postdoctoral researcher
Phone: +46 8 790 65 79
E-mail: ahsan dot qamar at md.kth.se
Visiting Address: Brinellvägen 83, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Research
Design of mechatronic systems is a complex process. The systems themselves are becoming complex due to an increase in functionality and behavior intelligence. On the other hand, the development process naturally involves multiple stakeholders which have different viewpoints, supported by multiple views to address their concerns. Modeling is performed at various levels of abstraction and detail to represent the system based on the concerns of the stakeholder. As a result, multiple formalisms, modeling languages and tools are utilized. Such multi-view development processes presents a number of challenges:
- Overlapping concerns: Results in views that are not entirely independent, but have relations between them.
- Dependencies: Due to the nature of design process and overlapping concerns, product properties captured in models influence each other - called as dependencies. The dependency management in general is implicit and ad-hoc.
- Information exchange: Exchanging and understanding information between a diverse set of stakeholders is a challenge due to the existence of different terminologies and backgrounds.
- Tool interoperability and tool integration is a major hurdle.
- Consistency management and model management is challenging and difficult to enforce.
Our aim is to study methods and approaches and develop the supporting tools that address the above mentioned challenges and support the designers in their work.
Research Interests
Model Based Systems Engineering, Mechatronic Design, Model Management, Dependency Modeling, Multi-view Modeling, Model Integration, Tool Interoperability, Design Processes, Design Methodologies, Automatic Control.
News & Upcoming Events
International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED13, Seoul, Korea
ASME IDETC/CIE 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA
23rd Annual INCOSE International Symposium, Philadelphia, USA
IEEE/ASME Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM2013, Wollongong, Australia
Curriculum Vitae
| Time | Position |
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| Current | Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Machine Design, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2009-2013 | PhD. in Mechatronics at Department of Machine Design, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2011-2012 | Visiting Researcher at Model Based Systems Engineering Center, The G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 2009 - 2011 | Licentiate of Technology Division of Mechatronics, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2008 | Research Engineer at Computer Vision and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 2007 | Research Engineer at Automation and System Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 2007 | Mechatronic consultant at Danish Innovation Institute, Pera Denmark |
| 2004 - 2006 | MSc. In Electrical Engineering Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 2000 -2003 | Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan |
Teaching
- Project coach for Mechatronics Advanced Course (spring 2013, graduate level).
- Teaching assistant for MF2030 Mechatronics basic Course (fall 2012, graduate level)
- Teaching assistant for MF2007 Dynamics and Motion Control (fall 2010, graduate level)
- Master Thesis Supervision
Publications
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| Ahsan Qamar Model and Dependency Management in Mechatronic Design PhD Thesis, ISBN 978-91-7501-664-1, Department of Machine Design, School of Industrial Engineering & Management, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2013 |
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| Ahsan Qamar, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Jan WIkander, and Carl During Dependency Modeling and Model Management in Mechatronic Design Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, ASME, Vol. 12(4), pp. 041009, December 2012 |
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| Jonas Morkeberg Torry-Smith & Ahsan Qamar, Sofiane Achiche, Jan Wikander, Niels Henrik Mortensen and Carl During Challenges in Designing Mechatronic Systems Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME, Vol. 135(1), pp. 011005, January 2013 |
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| Ahsan Qamar, Jan Wikander and Carl During Overcoming Current Mechatronic Design Challenges: A Discussion Symposium on Model-based Mechatronic System Design, 13th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, Mechatronic 2012, Linz, Austria, 2012 |
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| Ahsan Qamar and Christiaan J. J. Paredis Dependency Modeling and Model Management in Mechatronic Design In Proceedings of ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2012, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2012 |
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| Ahsan Qamar An Integrated Approach Towards Model-Based Mechatronic Design Licentiate Thesis, ISBN 978-91-7501-025-0, Department of Machine Design, School of Industrial Engineering & Management, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2011 |
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| Sebastian J. I. Herzig, Ahsan Qamar, Axel Reichwein and Christiaan J. J. Paredis A Conceptual Framework for Consistency Management in Model-Based Systems Engineering In Proceedings of ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2011, Washington, DC, USA, 2011 |
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| Jonas Morkeberg Torry-Smith, Ahsan Qamar, Sofiane Achiche, Jan Wikander, Niels Henrik Mortensen and Carl During Mechatronic Design- Still A Considerable Challenge In Proceedings of ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2011, Washington, DC, USA, 2011 |
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| Ahsan Qamar, Jan Wikander and Carl During Designing Mechatronic Systems: A Model Integration Approach In Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011 |
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| Ahsan Qamar, Jan Wikander and Carl During A Mechatronic Design Infrastructure Integrating Heterogeneous Models In Proceedings of International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011 |
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| Ahsan Qamar, Martin Torngren, Carl During, and Jan Wikander Integrating Multi-Domain Models for the Design and Development of Mechatronic Systems In Proceedings of 7th European Systems Engineering Conference (EUSEC2010), Stockholm, Sweden, 2010 |
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| Ahsan Qamar Requirement Specifications for an Integrated Design Environment Targeting Mechatronic Systems Technical report, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, ISSN 1400-1179, TRITA MMK 2011:09, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2011 |
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| Ahsan Qamar, Carl During, and Jan Wikander Designing Mechatronic Systems, A Model-based Perspective, An Attempt to Achieve SysML-Matlab/Simulink Model Integration In Proceedings of 2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM09), Singapore, 2009 |
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| Michael Nørremark, Ahsan Qamar, Mikkel Nilars, Krister Persson A system using GNSS to record spray boom movement and absolute position under operating conditions In Proceedings of International Conference on Agricultural Engineering (AGENG2008), Greece, June 2008 |
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| Ahsan Qamar and Ali Zaib Control of High Precision Satellite Tracking System: A Fault Tolerant Approach MSc. Thesis, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2006 |
