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rcm2 team has presented various international publications. List of these are given below segregated on the basis of team members.

Dr. Saeed Fararooy

i) Thesis

Self-tuning control for proportional plus integral controllers, MSc Thesis, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UMIST, Manchester, March 1983.
Control systems for a modular fancy-yarn hollow-spindle spinning machine, PhD Thesis, Department of Textiles, UMIST, Manchester, September 1998.

ii) Refereed Journal Publications

Fararooy, S, Perkins, J D, Malik T, J Oglesby and S Williams (1993) Process Controllability Toolbox, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 5/6: 617-625.
Fararooy, S and J Allan (1995) Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of electro-pneumatically operated machinery using acoustic emission sensing, Journal of British Institute of NDT: INSIGHT, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp, April 1995.
Fararooy, S (1999) Novel microprocessor-based tachometer employing ramp-waveform sampling technique, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Nov. 1999.
Fararooy, S, Allan J, Irwin J and C Porter (1998) An Early-Failure Warning System for Railway Signalling Equipment: Train-stops, submitted to IEE Proceedings, Pt B.
Lehrasab N, Fararooy, S et al (2002) Industrial fault diagnosis: pneumatic train door case study, IMechE Proceedings, Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Pt F, Vol. 216, pp 175-183, Oct. 2002.

iii) Refereed International Conferences

Fararooy, S, Perkins, J D and T Malik (1992) A Software Package for Process Controllability Analysis, 1st European Sym. on Computer Aided Process Eng (ESCAPE-1) Denmark, May ’92.
Fararooy, S, Allan J and B Mellitt (1994) Early failure warning system for railway signalling equipment: 1. Train-stops, Comprail ’94, Madrid, 7-9 September 1994, pp 135-142, Computational Mechanics Pubs.
Fararooy, S and J Allan (1995) Condition-based maintenance of railway signalling equipment, IEE International Conference Railink ’95, Amsterdam, 27-30 March ’95.
Fararooy, S, Allan J and YG Sherrif (1995) On-line Condition Monitoring of Railway equipment using Neural Network Intelligence, COMADEM’95, Kingston, Canada, 26-28 June 1995.
Fararooy, S and J Allan (1995) Field trials of condition monitoring system for railway signalling equipment, IRSE ASPECT ’95 Conf., London, 25-27 September 95.
Fararooy S, Allan J, Jin J, Maleki K and F Pang (1996) Accurate train localisation in open space and tunnels, IEE Int. Conf. On Public Transport Electronic Systems PTES’96, London, 21-22 May 1996.
Fararooy S, Allan J and A Edwards (1996 A Survey of Train to Track CCTV Transmission Systems, Railtech 96, NEC, Birmingham, 21-23 May 1996.
Fararooy S, J Allan, S K Abed, N Lehrasab. 1996. Condition Monitoring of Railway Equipment: Experiences from Case Studies, COMADEM’96, Sheffield, Rail Sessions Supplementary Proceedings.
Fararooy, S, Allan J and S K Abed (1996) Condition monitoring of Railway Equipment: DC circuit breaker case study, Comprail’96, Berlin, 21-23 August 1996.
Fararooy S, J Allan, N Lehrasab. 1997. Condition Monitoring of Railway Equipment: Train Rotary Door Operator Case Study, “Train Maintenance Tomorrow and Beyond”, IMechE Int. Conf., York, April 1997.
Fararooy S. 1997. (RCM)² for Railways’ Safety-Critical Signalling Equipment, ICivilE/IRSE Conference, Current Problems Current Solutions, Railtex’97, Wembley, London, November 1997.
Abed S K, S Fararooy, J Allan. 1998. PC-based condition monitoring system to verify reliability-centred maintenance of electro-pneumatic point machines on London Underground, IEE Int. Conf. on Developments in Mass-Transmit Systems, April 1998.
Roberts C, S Fararooy. 1998. Remote Condition Monitoring into the next Millenium, Comprail ’98, Lisbon, September 1998, Computational Mechanics Publications.
S Fararooy, C Mair. 1998. Review of Overhead-Wire geometry Measurement Systems, IEE Seminar on Current Collection for High-Speed Trains, London 2 Oct. 1998.
S Fararooy. 1998. Condition monitoring for rail transport: (RCM)² Strategy, IEE Seminar on Condition Monitoring for Rail Transport, Birmingham, 10 Nov. 1998.
C Mair, S Fararooy. 1998. Practice and Potential of Computer Vision for Railways, IEE Seminar on Condition Monitoring for Rail Transport, Birmingham, 10 Nov. 1998.
H Yazdi, C Roberts and S Fararooy. 1998. Intelligent Analysis of RCM data using Simulation, IEE Seminar on Condition Monitoring for Rail Transport, Birmingham, 10 Nov. 1998.
S Fararooy. 2001. Reducing delays in London Underground Junctions and Termini, IEE People in Control (PIC 2001) Conference, Manchester, June 2001

iv) Other Publications

Fararooy, S and R Luna-Aguire (1989) Interactive PID controllers for a multi-zone temp. control system, UPEC’89.; Fararooy, S and S M Li (1990) Adaptive PID controllers for a multi-zone furnace, UPEC’90.
Fararooy, S (1990) New speed measurement technique for automotive applications, IEEE Workshop on Electronic Applications in Transportation, Dearborn, Oct. 1990.
Fararooy, S (1990) Towards Intelligent Control Systems: An Overview, Baranoosh Scientific Quarterly (in Farsi), Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1990.
Oglesby, J, Fararooy, S Perkins, J D and T Malik (1992) Early Stage Process Controllability Assessment, IFAC workshop: Interactions between process design and process control, London, Sep.
Fararooy, S, Perkins, J D and M Olivier (1992) GUI-based Matlab Toolbox for Process Controllability, 2AO92 Conf., Paris, November 1992
Fararooy, S and J Allan (1995) On-line Condition Monitoring of Railway Signalling Equipment using Neural Network based Intelligent Sensors, IEE Seminar, 4 April 95.

Dr. Nadeem Lehrasab

i) International Publications

Lehrasab, N., Dassanayake, H, Roberts, C., Fararooy, S. and Goodman, C., Industrial fault diagnosis: pneumatic train door case study, Proceedings of the IMechE Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, September 2002, vol. 216, no. 3, pp 175-183
Lehrasab, N., Roberts, C., Dassanayake, H., and Goodman, C., Distributed quantitative and qualitative fault diagnosis: railway junction case study, IFAC Control Engineering Practice, April 2002, vol. 10, no. 4, pp 419-429.
N Lehrasab, HPB Dassanayake, C Roberts, S Fararooy, CJ Goodman. 2002. Industrial Fault Diagnosis: Pneumatic Train Door Case Study, Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 216, 175-183. ISSN: 0954-4097. Publication: 7309.
Lehrasab, N. Fararooy, S., Intelligent multiple sensor early failure warning system for train rotary door operator, IEE Target Tracking and Data Fusion (Digest No: 1996/253), Malvern, pp 14/1-14/9, UK
Lehrasab, N, Fararooy, S.; Generic test environment for single-throw mechanical equipment Computing And Control Engineering Journal, 1998 9 (3)
Lehrasab, N.; Fararooy, S, .Formal definition of single throw mechanical equipment for fault diagnosis, IEE Electronics Letters, September, 1998 34 (23) Page 2231

ii) Other Publications

More than 18 conference papers have been so far presented:

Lehrasab N., Review of Fault Diagnostics in Engineering Applications (Part I & II); IBCAST 2002
Munir. A, Lehrasab, N., .A novel intelligent target tracking paradigm employing interaction multiple model kalman filters, INMIC 2002
Majid Ali, Lehrasab N, Arshad Munir, M Adil; Parity Space Observation Generation for Image Tracking Applications, CMD 2001
Lehrasab N, Munir A; Review of Fault Detection Techniques, CMD 2001
Lehrasab N, Munir A; Review of Fault Isolation Techniques, CMD 2001
Lehrasab N, Munir A; Review of Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques for FDI CMD 2001
Lehrasab N, S Tanwir, U Rafique; Cost-Effective Embedded Distributed Control And Data Acquisition, CMD 2001
S. Mirza, Lehrasab N, A Rehman; Remote Condition Monitoring Using GSM-SMS
A. Rehman, Dr. N Lehrasab; Low Budget Generic Automated Testing Environment CMD 2001
Lehrasab N, Munir A; Review of Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics in Railways CMD 2001
Lehrasab N, S. Fararooy; Review of Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics in Railways CMD 2001