Nasir Ahmed Alawad: received his B.Sc. M.Sc. degrees in Control engineering from Control and Systems Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, in 1981 and1984 respectively, with specialization of control and automation. He is presently a staff member (Dr. Prof.) in computer engineering department (PhD. in control engineering, especially in active disturbance rejection control for rehabilitation). His fields of interest include adaptive control, nonlinear control, nonlinear observers, intelligent control, active disturbance rejection control, optimization, identification and model reduction processing. 

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