1. Introduction to fundamental design and automation technologies in offshore robotics 2. Continuous system integration and validation for underwater perception in offshore inspection and intervention tasks 3. Azimuth thruster single lever type remote control system 4. Autonomous environment and target perception of underwater offshore vehicles 5. Autonomous control of underwater offshore vehicles 6. Development of hybrid control architecture for a small autonomous underwater vehicle 7. Adaptive sliding mode control based on local recurrent neural networks for an underwater robot 8. Thruster fault reconstruction for autonomous underwater vehicle based on terminal sliding mode observer 9. Robust sampled-data control for dynamic positioning ships based on T-S fuzzymodel 10. Finite-time control of autonomous surface vehicles 11. Way-point tracking control of underactuated USV based on GPC path planning 12. ESO-based guidance law for distributed path maneuvering of multiple autonomous surface vehicles with a time-varying formation 13. Finite-time extended state observer based fault tolerant output feedback control for UAV attitude stabilization under actuator failures and disturbances
Dr. Karimi received the B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His research interests are in the areas of control systems/theory, mechatronics, networked control systems, intelligent control systems, signal processing, vibration control, ground vehicles, structural control, wind turbine control and cutting processes. He is an Editorial Board Member for some international journals and several Technical Committee. Prof. Karimi has been presented a number of national and international awards, including Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship Award (in Germany), JSPS Research Award (in Japan), DAAD Research Award (in Germany), August-Wilhelm-Scheer Award (in Germany) and been invited as visiting professor at a number of universities in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, China, Korea, Japan, India.