Seraphin Abou

Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Duluth
College of Science and Engineering
235 Voss-Kovach Hall
1305 Ordean Court
Duluth, MN 55812-3042
(218) 726-8250 (office)
(218) 726-8596 (fax)
E-mail
Website:Seraphin

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering; Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada; 1998

Master of Production Management; CNAM, Paris, France 1990

M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering; Polytechnic University of Gdansk, Poland; 1988

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering; Polytechnic University of Gdansk, Poland; 1987

Research Areas

Systems Safety Engineering

Mechatronics Engineering and Automatic Control

Mathematics Modelling

Hydraulic and Manufacturing Systems

Selected Publications


[1.]	Seraphin C. Abou, Maarouf Saad, T. Dao. “Physical System Modelling for the Design and Control of Mechatronic Systems”. ISTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation, pp 73-77, Montreal, Canada, 2006
[2.]	Seraphin C. Abou, H. Khan & N. Sepehri. ‘’Nonlinear Observer Based Fault Detection Technique for Electro hydraulic Servo-Positioning Systems’’. Mechatronics, Vol. 15, 9, pp 1025-1158, 2005
[3.]	Khoder Melhem, Maarouf Saad, Seraphin C. Abou & El-Kebir Boukas.‘’Linearization by Redundancy and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems: A State Transformation Approach’’. 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005, Seville, Spain
[4.]	Seraphin. C. Abou & T. Dao. ‘’State observer for nonlinear systems: Application to Grinding Process Control’’. International conference on informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, (ICINCO), Setubal, Portugal, 25-28 August, 2004.
[5.]	Mohammed Jerouane, N. Sepehri, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Seraphin. C. Abou. ‘’Design and Experimental Evaluation of Robust Variable Structure Control for Hydraulic Actuators’’. The 5th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2004) Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 July, 2004.
[6.]	Seraphin. C. Abou & T. Dao. ‘’Grinding Process Modelling and Simulation’’. ISTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation, pp 63-67, Banff, Canada, 2003.
[7.]	Thien-My Dao, Seraphin C. Abou. & Ziane Bensalah ‘’A knowledge-based simulation system of dynamic scheduling’’. IEMS Conference 2003, Cocoa Beach , Florida, March 17-19, 2003.
[8.]	Seraphin. C. Abou & T. Dao. ‘’ Adaptive control and its application to grinding process’’. IAIA, Industrial Automatisation International conference, Montreal, Canada, 2003.
[9.]	Seraphin. C. Abou, S. Tarasiewicz & M. Remy.‘’Mathematical modelling of ball mill charge slippage: Geometric approach’’. IAIA, Industrial Automatisation International conference, Montreal, Ca, 2003.
[10.]	Seraphin C. Abou, H. Khan & N. Sepehri. ‘’Fault detection in electro-hydraulic servo-positioning systems using sequential test of Wald’’. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1628-1633, Winnipeg, Canada, 2002.