RESEARCH

RESEARCH INTERESTS Control Theory and Applications,
Time-Delay Systems
Robust Control, Robotics,
Micro Motion Control Systems and Biomedicine Applications,
Diesel Engine Control
Measurement and Instrumentation Techniques
Industrial Automation

 RESEARCH PROJECTS (Completed)
National Railway Signalization System (UDSP)
Control of Single Cylinder Diesel Engine for Alternative Fuel Testing using Programmable Digital Controller (PLC).
A Novel Micro Motion Detector and Feedback Control of Micro Manipulator for Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI).
Automatic Circuit Breaker Operator Panel Project had been made for General Electric Company. The purpose of project was manufacturing an automatic manipulator for commercial circuit breaker panel.
Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) Control System Design Project had been made for Istanbul Municipality. In the project command and control system of the LRV is designed and manufactured. New methodology was developed for robust control of the vehicle dynamics.

RESEARCH PROJECTS (On-going)
National Wind Turbine System (MILRES)  
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS (Consultant)

Car door latch operational quality test machine.
Belt anchorage test machine for commercial vehicles.
Head impact energy damping test machine for commercial vehicles
New generation conveyor design
Brush machine design

COLLABORATIONS 
Assis. Prof. Alp Tekin Ergenc from Yildiz Technical University  

PUBLICATIONS

Books

A Novel Method for ICSI: Rotationally Oscillating Drill, Vdm Verlag, ISBN:3639098897

Book Chapters

Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications and New Trends,A New Method for Delay-Independent Stability of Time-Delayed Systems,Editors:Rifat Sipahi, Tomáš Vyhlídal, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, Pierdomenico Pepe,ISBN 978-3-642-25220-4 (Print) 978-3-642-25221-1 (Online)

Journal Papers
Ergenc Ali Fuat, Kurtulan Salman, "Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) Control Systems Design Criterions", (in Turkish), Industry &Automation Periodicals, December 2001. ISBN:1301-3610 Olgac Nejat, Ergenc Ali Fuat, Sipahi Rifat, D"elay Scheduling for Stabilization in Multiple Delay Systems", Journal of Vibration and Control, September 2005 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, "A New Optical Sensor for Monitoring the Micro-pipette Motion", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, October 2006 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, Fazelinia Hassan, “ Extended Kronecker Summation for Determining the Kernel and Offspring of LTI Systems with Multiple Delays” , SIAM Journal of Optimization and Control, March 2007 Olgac Nejat, Sipahi Rifat, Ergenc Ali Fuat, ‘Delay Scheduling’, An Unconventional Use of Time Delay as a Stabilizing Tool in Trajectory Tracking". Elsevier Mechatronics May-June, 2007 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, New technology for cellular piercing: rotationally oscillating micro; micro-injector, description and validation tests” , Biomedical Microdevices, December 2007 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Fazelinia Hassan, Olgac Nejat, “Sign inverting control logic for time delayed systems with experiments”, International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, Volume 1 - Issue 1, 2008 Ergenc Ali Fuat, et.al. " Rotationally oscillating Drill (Ros-Drill©) for Mouse ICSI Without Using Mercury", Molecular Reproduction and Development, December 2008 Jhon F. Diaz, Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi, Nejat Olgac, Tai-Hsi Fan, Ali Fuat Ergenc, "Geometric Characterization of Cell Membrane of Mouse Oocytes for ICSI", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering,December 2010, Vol. 132 Ergenc A. T. , Ergenc A. F.,"A Multi-Purpose Test-Bed Design for Alternative Diesel Fuels", Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, February 2012 Vol: 34
Conference Papers
Ergenc Ali Fuat, Kurtulan Salman, “Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) Control Systems Design Criterions”, (in Turkish), Turkish Automatic Control Conference, 2001 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Kurtulan Salman, “Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) Robust Control Systems Design”, (in Turkish), Turkish Automatic Control Conference, 2002 Yalcin Yaprak, Ergenc Ali Fuat, Kurtulan Salman, ”Neuro PID controller implementation on PLC”, (in Turkish), Turkish Automatic Control Conference, 2002 Olgac Nejat, Sipahi Rifat, Ergenc Ali Fuat, “Feedback Time Delay As a Stabilizing Tool in Trajectory Tracking, Analysis and Experiments”, American Control Conference (ACC), 2004, Boston, MA Olgac Nejat, Sipahi Rifat, Ergenc Ali Fuat, “‘Delay Scheduling’, An Unconventional Use of Time Delay as a Stabilizing Tool in Trajectory Tracking”. Mechatronics , 2004, Ankara, Turkey Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, “Micro-pipette Motion Detection by using Optical Fiber Sensors”, 31st Northeast Bioengineering Conference, 2005, Hoboken, NJ Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, “Extended Kronecker Summation for Determining the Kernel and Offspring of LTI Systems with Multiple Delays”, 6th IFAC Workshop on TDS, L’Aquila, 2006 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, “Micro-pipette Motion Detection by using Optical Fiber Sensors”, ASME-IMECE, 2006 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, Fazelinia Hassan, “Kronecker Summation Method and Multiple Delay Systems”, IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CDC), 2006 Ergenc Ali Fuat, Olgac Nejat, “A New Micro Injector and an Optical Sensor”, American Control Conference (ACC), 2007, New York, NY Ergenc Ali Fuat, Fazelinia Hassan, Olgac Nejat, “Inverting Control, A New Strategy on Time Delayed Systems”, 17th IFAC World Congress, 2008, Korea Ergenc AF, Li MW, Toner M, et al. "Mercury-Free Mouse ICSI with Rotationally Oscillating Drill (Ros-Drill (c))" 35th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, APR 03-05, 2009 Cambridge, MA Jhon Diaz, Mehdi Karzar jeddi, Nejat Olgac*, Tai-Hsi Fan, Ali Fuat Ergenc,"On the Geometric Characteristics of Cell Membrane Using Rotationally Oscillating Drill (Ros-Drill©)", 2nd Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October, 2009, Hollywood, CA Ergenç Ali Fuat,Ergenç Alp Tekin, “Dizel Yakitlar için Test Düzenegi Tasarimi”, (in Turkish), Turkish Automatic Control Conference, 2009 Ergenç Ali Fuat," A New Method for Delay-Independent Stability of Time Delayed Systems", 9-th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, 7-9 June ,2010, Prague, Czech Republic. Saadet N.C., Ergenç A. F., "Çoklu Ölü Zamanlı Üretim Hatlarının Kararlılıgı" (in Turkish), Turkish Automatic Control Conference, 2011 Narthan Cemal Saadet, Ali Fuat Ergenc,"Stability of Production Lines with Multiple Delays",The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management IEEM 2011, Singapore.
Ergenc Ali Fuat, “A Matrix Technique for Dominant Pole Placement of Discrete-Time Time-Delayed Systems”, 10-th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, June 22-24, 2012. Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
Ilhan Mutlu, Ali Fuat Ergenc, Tolga Ovatman, Mehmet Turan Soylemez, “Design of a Hardware and Software based Test Bed for Railway Signalization Systems”,13-th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems(CTC2012),12-13 September 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ergenc Ali Fuat, “Ölü Zamanlı Sayısal Sistemlerin Baskın Kutup Ataması için Gelistirilmis MatrisTeknigi”, Turkish Automatic Control Conference, 11-13 October 2012, Nigde. (In Turkish)