报告题目：Several  Key Control Techniques for Unmanned (Aerial, Ground, Surface Vehicles, and Wind  Turbines) Systems and Their New Developments

报告人：  Professor Youmin  Zhang(加拿大Concordia  University)

报告时间：2016年5月3日下午15:30

报告地点：南一楼中311室

邀 请 方：“多谱信息处理技术”国家级重点实验室

Abstract:  Unmanned  systems including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Systems (UAVs or UASs), Unmanned  Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Autonomous/Driverless Cars, as well as Unmanned  Surface/Underwater Vehicles (USVs/UUVs) are gaining more and more attention  during the last a few years due to their important contributions and  cost-effective applications in several tasks such as surveillance, sense,  search, rescue, geographic studies, military and security applications. On the  other hand, health management and fault-tolerant control of manned aircraft have  a long history since the initial research on self-repairing flight control  systems in US Air Force and NASA begun in mid-1980s. However, due to safety  concern of manned aerial vehicles to the pilot, experimental test and further  practical research and development have been limited. Benefited from the recent  and significant advance and development of UAVs, development and application of  autonomous, fault-tolerant, and cooperative control techniques have been emerged  and developed quickly in recent years, since UAVs provide a cheap and operative  experimental testbed for development, implementation, testing and validation of  the newly developed autonomous, fault-tolerant, cooperative and even the latest  fault-tolerant cooperative control techniques.

In  this talk, brief review on the development of autonomous unmanned aircraft  systems and challenges on sense & avoid, autonomy and fault tolerance of  UAVs will be given first, then the latest development and current research work  in the above-mentioned active/key research and development areas with  applications to autonomous quadrotor helicopter UAVs, wheeled mobile  robots/ground vehicles testbeds and unmanned surface vehicles developed in  collaboration with industry at the Diagnosis, Flight Control and Simulation Lab  (DFCSL) and Networked Autonomous Vehicles Lab (NAVL) of Concordia University, as  well as applications to wind turbines/farm in the renewable energy field, will  be introduced.

Biography: Dr.  Youmin Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial  Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Youmin Zhang received  his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the Department of Automatic Control, Northwestern  Polytechnical University, Xian, P. R. China.

His  main research interests and experience are in the areas of condition monitoring,  fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant (flight) control systems; cooperative  guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/ground/surface vehicles;  dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and control; and advanced  signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis and health management of  safety-critical systems, renewable energy systems and manufacturing processes.  He  has led and participated several national and international research projects in  China, Europe and North America, including NSFC, NSERC, NASA Aviation Safety  Program, and GARTEUR. He has published  4 books with co-authors (including a book on “Active Fault Tolerant Control  Systems: Stochastic Analysis and Synthesis” (2003) and a book on “Fault  Diagnosis and Fault Accommodation for Control Systems” (2009)), over 390 journal  and conference papers (including 114 refereed journal papers since  1992). His comprehensive review paper  published at Annual Reviews in Control on “Bibliographical Review on  Reconfigurable Fault-tolerant Control Systems” has gained significant impact in  the field worldwide. The paper has been ranked No. 1 in the “Most Cited  Articles” published since 1996, and “Highly Cited Paper”—in  the top 1% of its academic field by Web of Science. Several recently  published papers in several journals have also been ranked in the top of “Mostly  Downloaded Papers” and ScienceDirect “Top 25 Hottest Articles”. Prof. Zhang has  been invited to give international conference plenary talks and research  seminars worldwide for more than 60 times since 2005. He serves as a  member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and  Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS), the Technical Committee on Chinese  Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (Chinese  SAFEPROCESS), the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Program Committee (PC) on Unmanned  Systems, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee (TC) on  Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (ARUAV), and the ASME/IEEE TC on  Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of  Instrumentation, Automation and Systems (JIAS), an Editorial Board Member and/or  (Editor-at-Large, Associate) Editor of 6 other international journals  (including 3 newly launched journals on Unmanned Systems). He has served as General Chair, Program  Chair, Program Vice-chair and IPC member of many international  conferences. Dr. Zhang is a senior member of AIAA and IEEE, a member of  ASME/CSME, AUVSI/USC, and CASI. More detailed information can be found at http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/index.html.