Zhiyong Chen PhD

蛎崘啾

 

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

The University of Newcastle

Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia

Phone: +61 2 4921 6352

Fax: +61 2 4921 6993

Email: zhiyong.chen at newcastle.edu.au

　　

 

　

　

Degrees Conferred

　

• Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005

• M.Phil., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002

• B.E., University of Science and Technology of China, 2000
• LL.B. (second degree), University of Science and Technology of China, 2000

　

　

Awards and Prizes:

　

•SUPCON Best Paper Award, The 10th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2012.

•Emerging Research Leaders, University of Newcastle, 2012.

• National Natural Science Award of China, 2010.

• Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, University of Newcastle, 2010.

• Pro Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, University of Newcastle, 2010.

• Steve Hsia Biomedical Paper Award, The 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2010.

• Best PhD Thesis Award (Engineering), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005

• Best Paper Award, The Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2004

• Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Fund Postgraduate Scholarship, 2003 - 2004

• Lee Hysan Foundation Postgraduate Studentship for Mainland China Students, 2002 - 2003

　

　

Positions Held:

　

•Senior Lecturer, The University of Newcastle, 2010-

• Lecturer, The University of Newcastle, 2006-2009

• Research Associate, University of Virginia, 2005-2006

　

• Guest Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

• Guest Professor, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

• Guest Professor, Zhejiang Science and Technology University

　

　

Research Interests:

　

•Robust Control, Adaptive Control

• Linear and Nonlinear Systems and Control

• Biological Control Systems

• Robotics

• Complex Network Dynamics, Flock/Swarm Control

　

　

Services:

　

• Senior Member, IEEE

 

• Associate Editor - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,2012-date

• Associate Editor - Systems and Control Letters, 2010-date

• Associate Editor - Asian Journal of Control, 2010-date

• Associate Editor - Conference Editorial Board,  IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009-date

• Associate Editor - Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2009-2012

　

• Local Arrangement Chair - 2013 IEEE/ASME International conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Wollongong Australia, 2013

• Regional Chair - The 3rd Annual IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems, Nanjing China,2013

　

• International Program Committee -

ASCC/Istanbul~Turkey/2013; CCC/Xi¨an~China/2013;

ICRA/Karlsruhe~Germany/2013; CCDC/Guiyang~China/2013;

ICICIP/Dalian~China/2012; WCICA/Beijing~China/2012;

ICRA/St. Paul~USA/2012;CCC/Hefei~China/2012; CCDC/Taiyuan~China/2012;

CCC/Yantai~China/2011; AUCC/Melbourne~Australia/2011; ASCC/Taiwan~China/2011;
CCDC/Mianyang~China/2011; IEEE MSC/Yokohama~Japan/2010;
IASTED-AsiaRC/Bangkok~Thailand/2010; ICICIP/Dalian~China/2010;
WCICA/Jinan~China/2010; IASTED-CA/Alberta~Canada/2010;
IEEE~CDC&CCC/Shanghai~China/2009; IASTED-ICA/Hawaii~USA/2009;
ASCC/Hong~Kong~China/2009; IEEE~ICCA/Guangzhou~China/2007.

　

　

　

Teaching:

　

• ELEC3240 - Electronics

• ELEC2400 - Signals and Systems

• ELEC2200 - Introduction to Electronics

• ELEC2131 - Machines and Sensors

• ELEC2320 - Electrical Circuits

　

　

Research Grants:

 

Chief/Principle Investigator

• Chief Investigator, Dynamics and feedback in networked biological systems, ARC Discovery Grant, Australia, AUD330,000, 2013-2015.

• Chief Investigator, Biological pattern generators for control and optimization of locomotion systems, ARC Discovery Grant, Australia, AUD220,000, 2008-2010.

• Chief Investigator, University of Newcastle Emerging Research Leader Grant, AUD10,000, 2012.

• Principal Investigator, Nonlinear control problems in nano-positioning systems, Open-project of the State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology of China, RMB100,000, 2012.

• Principal Investigator, Redundant design and control for ultrafast nano-positioning systems, Open-project of the State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology of China, RMB200,000, 2011.

• Chief Investigator, New controller design techniques for sensor disturbance rejection, University of Newcastle ECR Grant, AUD11,000, 2007.
• Principal Investigator, Adaptive robust output regulation of nonlinear systems,  National Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB60,000, 2006.

 

Co-Principle Investigator

• Co-Principle Investigator, Advanced active control technology research for high-efficiency and high-precision five-axis machining systems of complex surfaces, National Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB3,000,000, 2012-2016.

• Co-Principal Investigator, Model predictive micro-environment control for nano-jet printing platform, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2011-2013

• Co-Principal Investigator, Biomedically inspired model predictive control of distributed parameter systems, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2008-2010.　

　

　

Selected Publications:                      Full publications´

　

Book chapters:

1.  Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Robust input-to-state stability and small gain theorem for nonlinear systems containing time-varying uncertainty," In D. Cheng, Y. Sun, T. Shen and H. Ohmori (eds), Advanced Robust and Adaptive Control -Theory and Applications, Springer-Tsinghua, ISBN7302107270, 2005.

2.  Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Global output regulation with uncertain exosystems," Three Decades of Progress in Control Science, Springer, 2009.

 

Referred journal papers:

3.  Z. Chen, T. Iwasaki, and L. Zhu, ＾Neural control for coordinated natural oscillation patterns,￣ Systems and Control Letters, accepted.

4.  Z. Chen, and H. Zhang, "A remark on collective circular motion of heterogeneous multi-agents," Automatica, accepted.

5.  Z. Chen, and J Huang, "Attitude tracking of rigid spacecraft subject to disturbances of unknown frequencies," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, accepted.

6.  L. Zhu, Z. Chen, and T. Iwasaki, "Oscillation, orientation, and locomotion of underactuated multi-link mechanical systems," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology [regular paper], accepted.

7.  Z. Chen and H. Zhang, "Analysis of joint connectivity condition for multi-agents with boundary constraints," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics [regular paper], accepted.

8.      H. Zhang, Z. Chen, L. Yan, and W. Yu, "Applications of collective circular motion control to multi-robot systems," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, accepted.

9.      Z. Peng, D. Wang, Z. Chen, X. Hu, and W. Lan, "Adaptive dynamic surface control for formation of autonomous surface vehicles with uncertain dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

10.  M. N. Islam and Z. Chen, "Natural Oscillation Control of Prototype Mechanical Rectifiers," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 20, 1559-1566, 2012.

11.  A. Salton, Z. Chen, and M. Fu, "Improved control design methods for proximate time-optimal servomechanisms, " IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics [regular paper], vol 7, 1049-1058, 2012.

12.  Z. Chen and H. Zhang, "No-beacon collective circular motion of jointly connected multi-agents," Automatica [regular paper], vol. 47, 1929-1937, 2011.

13.  L. Liu, Z. Chen, and J. Huang, "Global disturbance rejection of lower triangular systems with an unknown linear exosystem," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56,  1690-1695, 2011.

14.  H. Zhang, Z. Chao, and Z. Chen, "A general alignment repulsion algorithm for flocking of multi-agent systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 56, pp. 430-435, 2011.

15.A. Salton, Z. Chen, J. Zheng, and M. Fu, "Preview control of dual-stage actuator systems for super fast transition time, " IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 16, pp.758-763, 2011.

16.Z. Chen, "On observability of nonlinear steady-state generators," Automatica, vol. 46, pp.1712-1718, 2010.

17.H.-T. Zhang, M.Z. Chen, and Z. Chen, "Nonlinear Laguerre-Volterra observer-controller and its application to process control," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 20, pp. 412-423, 2010.

18.Z. Chen, "A remark on sensor disturbance rejection of nonlinear systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 9, pp.2206-2210, 2009.

19.Z. Chen and T. Iwasaki, "Matrix perturbation analysis for weakly coupled oscillators," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 58, pp. 148-154, 2009.

20.Z. Chen, "Global stabilization of nonlinear cascaded systems with a Lyapunov function in superposition form," Automatica, vol. 45, pp. 2041-2045, 2009.

21.L. Liu, Z. Chen, and J. Huang, "Parameter convergence and minimal internal model with an adaptive output regulation problem," Automatica, vol.45, pp.1306-1311, 2009.

22.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Attitude tracking and disturbance rejection of rigid spacecraft by adaptive control," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, pp. 600-605, 2009.

23.Z. Chen, M. Zheng, W. O. Friesen, and T. Iwasaki, "Multivariable harmonic balance analysis of neuronal oscillator for leech swimming," Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 25, no. 3, pp.583-606, 2008.

24.Z. Chen and T. Iwasaki, "Circulant synthesis of central pattern generators with application to control of rectifier systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [regular paper], vol. 53, pp273-286, 2008.

25.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "A Lyapunov's direct method for the global robust stabilization of nonlinear cascaded systems," Automatica, vol. 44, pp745 - 752, 2008.

26.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Global robust servomechanism of a class of nonlinear systems using output feedback," Asian Journal of Control, vol. 9, pp. 292-305, 2007.

27.W. Lan, Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Semi-global robust output regulation for nonlinear systems in normal form using output feedback," Communications in Information and Systems, vol. 5, pp. 285 400, 2005.

28.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "A simplified small gain theorem for time-varying nonlinear systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 50, pp.1904-1908, 2005.

29.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Robust output regulation with nonlinear exosystems," Automatica, vol. 41, pp. 1447-1454, 2005

30.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "A general formulation and solvability of the global robust output regulation problem" IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [regular paper], vol.50, pp.448-462, 2005.

31.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Global robust output regulation for output feedback systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, pp.117-121, 2005.

32.J. Huang, and Z. Chen, "A general framework for tackling the output regulation problem," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [regular paper], vol. 49, pp. 2203-2218, 2004.

33.Z. Chen, J. Huang, "Dissipativity, stabilization, and regulation of cascade-connected systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [regular paper], vol. 49, pp. 635-650, 2004.

34.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Global robust servomechanism of lower triangular systems in the general case," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 52, pp. 209-220, 2004.

35.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Solution of output regulation of singular nonlinear systems by normal output feedback," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, pp.803-813, 2002.

36.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Global robust stabilization of cascaded polynomial systems," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 47, pp. 445-453, 2002.

37.Z. Chen and J. Huang, "Robust output regulation of singular nonlinear systems," Communications in Information and Systems, vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 381-394, 2001.