1. An introduction to backstepping control 2. A new chaotic system without linear term, its backstepping control and circuit design 3. Analysis, adaptive backstepping control and microcontroller implementation of a 4-D hyperchaotic system with a hyperbolic sinusoidal nonlinearity 4. A new chaotic jerk system with egg-shaped strange attractor, its dynamical analysis, adaptive backstepping control and circuit simulation 5. A new 4-D chaotic hyperjerk system, its adaptive backstepping control and circuit realization 6. A simple chaotic jerk system with two quadratic nonlinear terms, its dynamic analysis, adaptive backstepping control and circuit realization 7. A highly hyperchaotic system with hidden attractor, its dynamic analysis, adaptive backstepping control and circuit simulation 8. A new 4-D hyperchaotic temperature model, its analysis, backstepping control and circuit simulation 9. A thermally excited chaotic oscillator, its dynamical analysis, backstepping control and circuit simulation 10. A plasma-torch chaotic oscillator, its analysis, backstepping control and circuit simulation 11. A novel design approach for finite-time fractional-order adaptive intelligent backstepping control of uncertain fractional-order chaotic systems 12. A novel design approach for adaptive intelligent backstepping controller for fractional-order uncertain chaotic systems with unknown time-varying delay 13. Direct power control of three phase PWM-rectifier with backstepping control 14. Adaptive backstepping controller of wind energy conversion system involving DFIG 15. Maximum power point tracking based backstepping control of a photovoltaic power generation system 16. Dynamic modeling, identification and a comparative experimental study on Position Control of a Pneumatic actuator based on soft switching and Backstepping-sliding mode controllers 17. Optimal adaptative backstepping control for chaos synchronization of nonlinear dynamical systems 18. A novel design approach to adaptive sliding mode backstepping control techniques for a high performance active vehicle suspension system 19. Backstepping controller for a nonlinear active suspension system 20. Single-Link Flexible Joint Manipulator Control Using Backstepping Technique 21. Backstepping control and synchronization techniques for time delayed chaotic and hyperchaotic systems 22. Multi-switching synchronization of Nonlinear Hyperchaotic Systems via Backstepping Control 23. Backstepping-based chaos control and synchronization in fractional order Bhalekar-Gejji chaotic system 24. A new 5-D chaotic hyperjerk system with two saddle-foci equilibrium Points, its active backstepping control and circuit realization 25. Design and implementation of a backstepping controller for non-holonomic two-wheeled inverted pendulum mobile robots
Prof. Ahmad Azar has received the M.Sc. degree in 2006 and Ph.D degree in 2009 from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt. He is a research associate Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial intelligence, Benha University, Egypt. Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) and International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) published by IGI Global, USA. Also, he is the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. Prof. Azar has worked as associate editor of IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems from 2013 to 2017. He is currently Associate Editor of ISA Transactios, Elsevier and IEEE systems journal. Dr. Ahmad Azar has worked in the areas of Control Theory & Applications, Process Control, Chaos Control and Synchronization, Nonlinear control, Renewable Energy, Computational Intelligence and has authored/coauthored over 200 research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He is an editor of many books in the field of fuzzy logic systems, modeling techniques, control systems, computational intelligence, chaos modeling and machine learning. Dr. Ahmad Azar is closely associated with several international journals as a reviewer. He serves as international programme committee member in many international and peer-reviewed conferences. Dr. Ahmad Azar has been a senior member of IEEE since December 2013 due to his significant contributions to the profession. Dr. Ahmad Azar is the recipient of several awards including: Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018), the paper citation award from Benha University (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). In June 2018, Prof. Azar was awarded the Egyptian State Prize in Engineering Sciences, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt, 2017. In July 2018 he was selected as a member of Energy and Electricity Research council, Academy of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education. In August 2018 he was selected as senior member of International Rough Set Society (IRSS).