School of Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sciences

Electric Vehicle Lab

In EV lab, we are doing research on designing different advanced nonlinear controller for different applications, including electric vehicles, wireless power transmission, EV charger,  smart AC/DC grids, UAVs including bi-copters, quidcopters, octroters, controlled drug delivery for biomedical applications including chemotherapy for cancer treatment,  brain tumors, prostate cancer,  blood cancer, leukemia, TB, HIV, HCV, Diabetes, managed pressure drilling, magnetic levitation systems and many other applications. We use meta heuristic techniques to optimize the gains of the controllers. We also use AI based techniques to generate the references to be tracked by the proposed controllers. We use Hardware in the Loop simulations (HIL Tests) to justify the controllers.

PI’s Profile:

[Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad] The Principal Investigator of the Electric Vehicle Lab has extensive expertise in electric mobility and sustainable energy systems.  Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad.

His research primarily focuses on nonlinear control systems, biomedical engineering, electric vehicles (EV), optimization, and hardware-in-the-loop simulations. Dr. Ahmad is at the forefront of advancing research in these areas at NUST, with key expertise in developing advanced control strategies for hybrid energy storage systems, renewable energy integration, and intelligent energy management systems. He has been cited over 2,000 times, reflecting his significant contributions to the field. Dr. Ahmad has successfully supervised numerous MS and PhD students, led several international collaborations, and completed multiple funded projects, demonstrating his remarkable ability in resource mobilization and research leadership.

  • Star Laureate Award 2007 and inclusion in prestigious profile book titled “Galaxies of who’s who in Pakistan 2007” by South Asia publications, Karachi.
  • Outstanding Journal paper Award 2018 SEECS
  • More than 350: Journals in Last Five Years: 60 ISI Indexed, 2000 and h-index 27 (google scholar), 1300 Research Collaboration Portal, Total 75 ISI (Around 90% as Corresp. Author), Two PhDs Completed, 5 under Supervision, 90 MS Graduated, 8 under Supervision, 2 under co-supervision, 6 FYP Supervised, 3 under supervision
  • 2022 Rank among top 1% researchers at NUST for publications 2021
  • World Top 2% Researchers in 2022 and 2024
  • IEEE Control System Society Pakistan – Vice Chair, 2022, 2023, Finance Secretary 2021
  • Pak-France Alumni Network : President 2022, 2023 and 2024, CEO 2021, Member BoD 2022-24
  • Has served as PG Coordinator EE SEECS
  • He is President Security and Safety Committee SEECS, President price and quality committee Isra market NUST and OiC Sports SEECS since last 10 years, Faculty sponsor NUST Fitness Club since 2017, Focal person for MSEE and PhD in EE students.
  • Faculty sponsor NUST student forum PG SEECS

For more detailed information on Dr. Ahmad’s publications and research impact, you can visit his Google Scholar profile.

Lab Equipment/Resources:

  • Electric Vehicle Charging Station
  • Drones’ quadcopters Test bed
  • High-Performance Computing Systems
  • Hardware for testing controller performance (Hardware in loop) HIL KIT.

Expertise/Capabilities of Lab:

  • Research and development of electric vehicle powertrains using nonlinear controllers, fuzzy logic controllers, artificial intelligence, ANN, RNN, RL
  • EMS in Fuel cell based as well as plug-in HEVs
  • Battery performance testing and lifecycle analysis
  • Integration of EVs with renewable energy sources
  • Energy management systems (EMS) and voltage regulation of DC bus for HEVs
  • Wireless power transmission using nonlinear control and reinforcement learning

Projects:

  1. “Pakistan’s First Indigenous Level 2 Electric Vehicle Charger" funded by NUST
  2. “Design, Fabrication and Control of VTOL Tilt-rotor Aerial Vehicle” funded by NESCOM
  3. “Modeling, Fabrication and control of Twin Rotor System” funded by NESCOM
  4. Failsafe Drone 2.9 Mil approved but in process from PMO (NESCOM) through DG & Director Projects
  5. Robust drone with indigenous pixhawk 1 mil from Pro-rector RIC (Co-PI)

Human Resource:

Typical Enrolment of lab researchers: 10-15 MS/PhD researchers

Contact Us:

Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad
Contact No.: 5190852553
Email: [email protected]