BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Khaje Nassir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Fall 1994-1999
Project: Design and Manufacture of a weft insertion mechanism for the weaving carpet robot. (Supervisor: Dr. A. Ghaffari)
Research
I am doing my research in the areas of Feedback Control, and my research interests includes control, dynamical systems and robotics. My thesis is on control of refrigeration systems and superheat control in evaporators, my supervisor is Dr. Mehrdad Saif, and co-supervisor is Dr. Roozbeh Izadi. I started this project as MITACS Internship in collaboration with Danfoss co.
The other project that I have done was the design and manufacture of a 3 degrees of freedom (D.O.F) data acquisition moving cart for topographical study of a hydraulic flume. I did this project for the River dynamics lab (Dr. Jeremy Venditti) in the geography department of SFU.
K. Kianfar, R. Izadi-Zamanabadi, M.Saif,(2011) Adaptive Supervisory Control of Superheat Temperature for a Supermarket Refrigeration System (Accepted), ASME IMECE Denver-Colorado.
Berring, J., Kianfar, K., Lira, C., Menon, C., Scarpa, F. (2010) A smart hydraulic joint for future implementation in robotic structures, Robotica.
Lira C.,Menon C.,Kianfar K.,Scarpa F., (2009), Bioinspired hydraulic joint for highly redundant robotic platforms, Proc. ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR), London, UK, p.409-413.
Lira, C., Menon, C., Kianfar, K., Scarpa, F., Mani, M. (2008) Mining smartness from the hydraulic system of spiders: a bioinspired actuator for advanced applications, Advances in Science and Technology, Trans Tech Publications, Vol. 58, pp 114-119.
Design and manufacture of a semi-automated light guided assembly machine, (in Persian) ISME May 2003.
Teaching
TA for the course Feedback control, ENSC 383, SFU Summer 2010 MATLAB Tutorial
TA for the course CAD/CAM Design, ENSC 489, SFU Fall 2007, and 2008 Solidworks Tutorial
