Kamen Lazarov Perev

Associate Professor in Automatic Control Theory

 

 Doc1

                                                                                   

Address                                                                                  Office hours

Systems and Control Department                                    Tuesdays: 14:00 – 15:30        

Technical University of Sofia                             Wednesdays:  14:00 – 15:30

8 “Cl. Ohridski” Blvd.                                                  

1756 Sofia, Bulgaria                                                                 Office room                                 

   Building II, room 2230

tel: (359 2) 965 2452

email: kperev@tu-sofia.bg

 

 

Brief CV                        Teaching 2016/2017               Publications

 

 

 

Brief CV

 

Education and academic employment

Associate Professor Kamen L. Perev received the Engineering degree in Automatics from VMEI – Sofia in 1985. He received the M.S. degree in Control systems and digital signal processing and the Ph.D. degree in Control systems, both from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He became an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Sofia in 1997. In 2006, he was promoted to Associate Professor at the same university.

 

Area of scientific interests

His area of scientific interests includes linear and nonlinear control systems, model order reduction and dynamical system approximation.

 

Service

Associate Professor Kamen L. Perev serves as a member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Automatics since 2008. He has been a member of the programme committees and reviewer of many national and international scientific conferences in control and system theory. Associate Professor Perev is a member of the Bulgarian Union of Automatics and Informatics (UAI). Associate Professor Perev is also a member of TC 2.2, the Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems of IFAC.

 

Awards

Associate Professor Kamen L. Perev has been selected as a member of ΦΚΦ – the honor society for academic excellence and has received best paper awards of several national and international conferences.

 

 

 

Teaching 2017/2018

 

Teaching 2017/2018

Associate Professor Kamen L. Perev teaches the following courses in the academic 2017/2018 year:

“Control theory I”: lectures and laboratory exercises for the Bachelor’s degree in the English Language Faculty of Engineering

“Control theory II”: lectures for the Bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Automatics

“Nonlinear control systems”: lectures for the Master’s degree in the Faculty of Automatics

 

Teaching before 2017/2018

“Linear systems analysis”: lectures and laboratory exercises

“Design and implementation of control systems”: lectures and laboratory exercises

“Multivariable control systems”: lectures and laboratory exercises

“Adaptive control systems”: lectures and laboratory exercises

“Advanced control theory”: lectures and laboratory exercises

“Linear and nonlinear control systems”: lectures and laboratory exercises

“Digital signal processing”: laboratory exercises

 

Textbooks

Associate Professor Kamen L. Perev has published the following manuals:

“Selected examples and problems solutions in control theory I, part – I”, (coauthor), 2009

“Control theory. Laboratory manual”, 1st and 2nd edt.,  (coauthor), 2004, 2006

“Design and implementation of automatic control systems. Laboratory manual”, 2005

“Linear systems analysis. Laboratory manual”, 2004

 

 

 

Publications

 

Publications

Associate Professor Kamen L. Perev has published more than seventy papers

in refereed scientific journals and conference proceedings. A short list of some of his

publications includes:

 

  1. Perev, K., “Proper orthogonal decomposition and Legendre polynomials approximation”, Problems of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics, vol. 69, pp. 108 – 120, 2018
  2. Perev, K., “The Lanczos algorithm for model order reduction of nonlinear systems”, AIP Conference Proceedings: Application of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics, AMEE’16, Sozopol, vol. 1789, pp. 050003-1 – 050003-8, 2016
  3. Perev, K., “Input and output normal forms for model order reduction of linear systems”, Information technologies and control, vol. 13, ¹ 3 – 4, pp. 20 – 28, 2015
  4. Perev, K., “Cross gramian approximation with Laguerre polynomials for model order reduction”, AIP Conference Proceedings: Application of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics, AMEE’15, Sozopol, vol. 1690, pp. 020013-1 – 020013-9, 2015
  5. Perev, K., “Model order reduction for a single machine infinite bus power system”, Electrotechnica & Electronica, vol. 1-2, pp. 42 – 49, 2015
  6. Perev, K., “The unifying feature of projection in model order reduction”, Information technologies and control, vol.12, ¹ 3 – 4, pp. 17 – 27, 2014
  7. Perev, K., “Laguerre polynomial approximation and model order reduction for linear systems”, AIP Conference Proceedings: Application of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics, AMEE’14, Sozopol, vol. 1631, pp. 29 – 36, 2014
  8. Perev, K., “Orthogonal polynomials approximation and balanced truncation for a lowpass filter”, Information Technologies and Control, vol. 11,  ¹ 4, pp. 2 – 16, 2013, 201
  9. Perev, K., “Nonlinearity measure and internal model control based linearization in anti-windup design”, AIP Conference Proceedings: Application of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics, AMEE’13, Sozopol, vol. 1570, pp. 26 – 38, 2013
  10. Perev, K., “Proper orthogonal decomposition with balanced realizations”, Proceedings of the Anniversary Conference 20 years ELFE: Challenges in Higher Education and Research, Sozopol, vol. 11,  pp. 100 – 103,  2013
  11. Perev, K., “A method for balanced truncation of singular systems”, Information Technologies and Control, vol. 10, ¹ 4, pp. 34 – 44, 2012
  12. Perev, K., “Balanced truncation of nonlinear systems with error bounds”, AIP Conference Proceedings: Application of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics, AMEE’12, Sozopol, vol. 1497, 1,  pp. 26 – 36,  2012
  13. Perev, K., “Integration based linearization of nonlinear systems”, Conference in Automatics – 50 years Education in Automatics, Proceedings of TU – Sofia, pp. 75 – 84, 2012
  14. Perev, K., “Approximation of pure time delay elements by using Hankel norm and balanced realizations”, Problems of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics, vol. 64,  pp. 24 – 37,  2011
  15. Perev, K., „Hankel norm approximation and model reduction of plants with pure time delay”, Proceedings of the Conference in Automatics and Informatics, Sofia, pp. B-9 – B-12,  2011
  16. Perev, K., „Approximation of pure time delays by balanced truncation”, Proceedings of the Anniversary Conference 40 years DIA, UCTM - Sofia, Sofia, pp. 53 – 56, 2011
  17. Perev, K., “Inverted pendulum control: an overview”, Information Technologies and Control, ¹ 1, pp. 34 – 41, 2011
  18. Perev, K., “The cart – inverted pendulum system modelling. Part I – Equations of dynamics”, Proceedings of the anniversary conference 15 years ELFE: Challenges in Higher Education and Research, Sozopol, vol. 6, pp. 429 – 433, 2008
  19. Perev, K., “The cart – inverted pendulum system modelling. Part II – Parametric identification”, Proceedings of the anniversary conference 15 years ELFE: Challenges in Higher Education and Research,  Sozopol, vol. 6, pp. 434 – 437, 2008
  20. Perev, K., “The Volterra series model for nonlinear systems”, Proceedings of the anniversary conference 10 years ELDE, Sozopol, pp. 137 - 142, 2003
  21. Ivanova, M., K. Perev, “Two approaches for nonlinear systems analysis and design”, Proceedings of the Conference in Automatics and Informatics, Sofia, pp. A95 – A98, 2001
  22. Angelov, C., I. Ivanov, K. Perev, V. Georgiev, “Design for open and predictable automation systems”, Proceedings of the 45 th International Scientific Colloquim of the Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, pp. 493 – 498, 2000
  23. Perev, K., C. Jacobson, B. Shafai, “An algorithm for identification of smooth nonlinear systems based on parametrized linearization families”, Int. J. Control, vol. 61, ¹ 5, pp. 1013 – 1043, 1995
  24. Perev, K., B. Shafai, “Balanced realization and model reduction of singular systems”, Int. J. Systems Sci., vol. 25, ¹ 6, pp. 1039 – 1052, 1994
  25. Jacobson, C., K. Perev, B. Shafai, “The approximation power of parametrized linearization family with application to nonlinear system identification”, Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, pp. 375 – 380, 1993
  26. Shafai, B., K. Perev, D. Cowley, Y. Chehab, “A necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of nonnegative interval discrete systems”, IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, vol AC – 36, pp. 742 – 746, 1991 pp. 165 – 168, 1990
  27. Larsson, T., K. Perev, K. Valavanis, S. Gardner, “Stability evaluation of the Puma-560 robot arm under model mismatch”, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Cooperative Intelligent Robotics in Space, vol. 1387, Boston, pp. 165 – 168, 1990,
  28. Shafai, B., K. Perev,”On necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of nonnegative interval systems”, SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra, San Francisco, 1990
  29. Perev, K., B. Shafai, “Balanced model reduction for singular systems”, SIAM conference on Linear Algebra, San Francisco, 1990