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2011

· Zhen Sun, Zhenyu Yang, “Joint Parametric Fault Detection and State Estimation Using KF-ML Method”, submitted to 2011 IEEE Conference on Control Application (CCA), Sept 28-30, Denver, USA.

· Zhenyu Yang, Casper Andersen and Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi, “On-line Auto-Tuning of PI Control of the Superheat for a Supermarket Refrigeration System”, submitted to 2011 IEEE Conference on Control Application (CCA), Sept 28-30, Denver, USA.

· Zhenyu Yang, K.B. Rasmussen, A.T. Kieu, and R. Izadi-Zamanabadi (2011), “Fault Detection and Isolation for a Supermarket Refrigeration System - Part One: Kalman-Filter-Based Methods”, will appear in Proc. of 18^th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, 28.08-02.09.2011.

· Zhenyu Yang, K.B. Rasmussen, A.T. Kieu, and R. Izadi-Zamanabadi (2011), “Fault Detection and Isolation for a Supermarket Refrigeration System - Part Two: Unknown-Input-Observer Method and Its Extension”, will appear in Proc. of 18^th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, 28.08-02.09.2011.

· Zhenyu Yang, Uffe C. Merrild, Morten T. Runge, Gerulf Pedersen and Hakon Børsting (2011), “A Study of Rolling-Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Motor's Vibration and Current Signatures”, under revision for Control Engineering Practice, Jan. 2011.

2010

· Frank Jepsen, Anders Søborg, Zhenyu Yang (2010), “Disturbance Control of the Hydraulic Brake in a Wind Turbine”, submitted to 2010 IEEE Energy Conference (ENERGYCON2010), Manama, Bahrain, December 18-22, 2010.

· Zhenyu Yang and Hakon Børsting (2010), “Energy Efficient Control of a Boosting System with Multiple Variable-Speed Pumps in Parallel”, will appear in Proc. of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia USA, December 15-17, 2010.

· Zhenyu Yang and Hakon Børsting (2010), “Optimal Scheduling and Control of a Multi-Pump Boosting System”, in Proc. of 2010 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), YOKOHOMA, Japan, September 8-10, 2010, pp.2071-2076, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5363-4, ISSN: 1085-1992, IEEE Catalog No: CFP10CCA-CDR.

· Zhenyu Yang and Andrea Valente (2010), “Optimal Control of Offshore Indoor Climate”, in Proc. of 2010 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), YOKOHOMA, Japan, September 8-10, 2010, pp.652-657, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5363-4, ISSN: 1085-1992, IEEE Catalog No: CFP10CCA-CDR.

· Zhen Sun and Zhenyu Yang (2010), “Study of Nonlinear Parameter Identification Using UKF and Maximum Likelihood Method”, in Proc. of 2010 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), YOKOHOMA, Japan, September 8-10, 2010, pp.671-676, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5363-4, ISSN: 1085-1992, IEEE Catalog No: CFP10CCA-CDR.

· Zhenyu Yang, Michael Juhl, Bo Løhndorf (2010), “On the Innovation of Level Control of an Offshore Three-Phase Separator” in Proc. of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2010), in Xi'an, China, August 4-7, 2010, pp.1348-1353, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5141-8, IEEE Catalog No: CFP10839-ART, Libaray of Congress: 2009934325. .

2009

· Zhenyu Yang, Stefan K. Greisen, Jette R. Hansen, Niels A. Pedersen, Martin R. Jensen (2009), “On the Single-Zone Modeling for Optimal Climate Control of a Real-Sized Livestock Stable System”, in Proc. of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA09), Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China, Aug 9-12, 2009. pp.3849-3854.

· Frank Jepsen, Anders Soborg, Anders R. Pedersen, Zhenyu Yang (2009), ”Development and Control of an Inverted Pendulum Driven by a Reaction Wheel”, in Proc. of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA09), Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China, Aug 9-12, 2009. pp.2829-2834.

· Zhenyu Yang, Uffe C. Merrild, Morten T. Runge, Gerulf Pedersen and Hakon Børsting (2009), “A Study of Rolling-Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Motor's Vibration and Current Signatures”, in Proc. of The 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2009), Barcelona, Spain, Jun 30-Jul 3, 2009. pp.354-359. (ABB Best Application Award Finalist)

· Zhenyu Yang, Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi (2009), “Reconfigurable Control for a Nonlinear Ship Propulsion System Using on-line Piecewise Affine system approximation”, in Proc. of The 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2009), Barcelona, Spain, Jun 30-Jul 3, 2009. pp.680-685. (Invited paper)

2008

· Zhenyu Yang and Steffen Podlech (2008), “Theoretical Modeling Issue in Active Noise Control for a One-Dimensional Acoustic Duct System”, Prof. of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 14-17 2008, pp.1249-1254.

· Zhenyu Yang, Gerulf K. Pedersen and Torben Rosenørn, “Development of an Interdisciplinary Education for Future Engineering Society - Intelligent Reliable System Program in Aalborg University”, “the SEFI 36^th annual conference, Aalborg, Denmark, Jul. 2-5 2008.

· Zhenyu Yang, Gerulf K. Pedersen and J.H. Pedersen (2008), “Model-based Control of a Nonlinear One-Dimensional Magnetic Levitation with a Permanent-Magnet Object”, in Book: Automation and Robotics, edt. Juan Manuel Ramds Arreguin, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Austria, ISBN 978-3-902613-41-7, 2008, pp.359-374.

· Hongbin Li,Qing Zhao, Zhenyu Yang (2008), “Reliability monitoring of fault tolerant control systems with demonstration on an aircraft model”, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, Volume 2008 ,  Issue 1  (January 2008), ISSN:1687-5249 , Article ID 265189, 10 pages, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/265189

· Hongbin Li,Qing Zhao, Zhenyu Yang (2008), “Reliability Monitoring of Fault Tolerant Control Systems”, in Proc. of 17^th IFAC World Congress, Seul, Korea, Jul.6-11, 2008.

· Zhenyu Yang, Gerulf Pedersen, Peter F. Odgaard, Lars H. Andreasen, Lars H.P. Andersen, Jacob Laas (2008), “On the Coupled Focusing and Tracking Performances of a High-Speed Optical Disk Drive”, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Cambridge, UK, Jun 30 Jul.02, 2008.

· D. M. Akbar Hussain, Zhenyu Yang, Shaiq A Haq, Zaki Ahmed, M. Zafar Ullah Khan, “A Novel Technique to Avoid Similarity Criterion Calculations in a Multi-Processor Environment”, in Springer Advances and Innovation in System, Computing Science and Software Engineering, June 2008, http://www.springer.com/west/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=4-40109-22-173738774-0 .

· Gerulf K. Pedersen, Zhenyu Yang (2008), "Estimation of Pump-Curves using Genetic Algorithms", Proc. of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Jul 12-16 2008, pp.1619-1626.

· Gerulf K. Pedersen, Zhenyu Yang (2008), " optimization of pump curves and multi-pump systems”, Proc. of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Jul 12-16 2008, pp.1611-1618.

2007

· Zhenyu Yang, Mogens Blanke and Michel Verhaegen (2007), “Robust Control Mixer Method for Reconfigurable Control Design Using Model Matching Strategy”, IET Control Theory & Applications -- January 2007 -- Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 349-357.

· Zhenyu Yang and Mogens Blanke (2007), “A Unified Approach to Controllability Analysis for Hybrid Control Systems” , Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, volume 1, issue 2, 2007, pp. 212-222, ISSN: 1751-570X. ELSEVIER Publisher.

· Hongbin Li,Qing Zhao, Zhenyu Yang (2007), “Reliability Modeling of Fault Tolerant Control Systems”, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol.17, No.4, 2007, pp.491-504, ISSN 1641-876X. DOI: 10.2478/v10006-007-0041-0.

· Zhenyu Yang, Gerulf K. Pedersen, ” Control of BeoSound 9000 Sledge System: An Industrial Case Study”, will appear in Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2007), Harbin, China, Aug 5-9, 2007.

· Zhenyu Yang, Gerulf K. Pedersen and J.H. Pedersen, “Modeling and Control of One-Dimensional Magnetic Levitation System with a Permanent-Magnet Object”, will appear in Proc. of 13th IEEE IFAC International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR07), Szczecin, Poland, Aug 27 – 30, 2007.

· Zhenyu Yang and David L. Hicks, “Acquisition of a State-Space Model for One-Dimensional Active Noise Control”, ”, in Proc. of the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2007), Honolulu, USA, , Aug 20-22, 2007, pp.173-178. ISBN:978-0-88986-676-8.

· Zhenyu Yang, Gerulf K. Pedersen, Lars F.S. Larsen and Honglian Thybo, “Modeling and Control of Indoor Climate Using a Heat Pump Based Floor Heating System”, ”, will appear in Proc. of 33rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON'07), Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 5-8, 2007.

· Zhenyu Yang and D. M. Akbar Hussain, “Mode Identification for Multi-Mode Switching Systems Based on Multi-sampled Data”,in Proc. of 2007 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2007), Xiaman, China, Nov.28-Dec.01, 2007., pp.153-156. ISBN: 1-4244-1447-4. IEEE Catalog No.: 07EX1868.

2006

· Zhenyu Yang and David L. Hicks (2006). “Synthesis of Robust Restructurable/Reconfigurable Control by Model-Matching Strategy”. Proc. of 9^th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2006), Dec. 5-8, 2006, Singapore, pp.65-70. IEEE Catalog Number: 06EX1361C, ISBN: 1-4244-0342-1.

· Zhenyu Yang (2006), “Reconfigurability

Analysis for a Class of Linear Hybrid Systems

”, Proc. of IFAC Symposium on SAFEPROCESS 2006, Beijing, China, Aug. 29 – Sept. 1, 2006.

· Zhenyu Yang and Gerulf K. M. Pedersen (2006), “Automatic Tuning of PID Controller for a 1-D Levitation System Using a Genetic Algorithm - a Real Case Study”, Proc. of IEEE Int. Sym. On Intelligent Control, Munich, Germany, Oct. 4-6, 2006.

· Gerulf K. M. Pedersen and Zhenyu Yang (2006), “Multi-Objective PID Controller Tuning for a Magnetic Levitation System using NSGA-II”, Proceedings I: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, July 8-12, 2006. pp. 1737-1744.

· Zhenyu Yang and Mogens Blanke (2006), ”A Unified Approach to Controllability Analysis for Hybrid Control Systems” , presented in The International Conference of Hybrid Systems and Applications, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, May 22-26, 2006. The full version will be published in Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications.

2005

· Zhenyu Yang and David L. Hicks (2005), “Active Noise Attenuation Using Adaptive Model Predictive Control”, in Proc. of 2005 Int. Sym. On Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Hong Kong, 7-10 Dec. 2005, pp.241-244.

· Zhenyu Yang, Y. M. Zhang and D. M. A. Hussain (2005), Model-based Active Noise Control: A Case Study for a High-speed CD-ROM System, to be presented in 16th IFAC Triennial World Congress (IFAC'05), Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-8, 2005.

· Y. M. Zhang, J. Jiang, Z. Yang and D. M. A. Hussain (2005), Managing Performance Degradation in Fault Tolerant Control Systems, to be presented in 16th IFAC Triennial World Congress (IFAC'05), Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-8, 2005.

2004

· Zhenyu Yang (2004), “Design of Active Noise Control Using Feedback Control Techniques for An Acoustic Duct system”, in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, Singapore, Dec.1-3, 2004, pp.467-472.

· Youmin Zhang, Zhenyu Yang and J. Jiang (2004), Incorporating Performance Degradation in Fault Tolerant Control System Design with Multiple Actuator Failures, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, Karlsruhe, Germany, Nov. 2004, pp. 221-226.

· D. M. Akbar Hussain, Zhenyu Yang, Youmin Zhang (2004), “Improved strategy to reduce bottleneck in distributed systems”, Proc. Of Third International Conference on Information (INFO-2004), Japan, Nov.29-Dec.2, 2004.

· Zhenyu Yang, “Active Noise Control for a One-dimensional Acoustic Duct Using Feedback Control Techniques: Modelling and Simulation” in press, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Issue 1, Volume 3, Jan. 2004, pp.46-54.

2003

· Zhenyu Yang and David H. Hicks, “A Study of Active Noise Control for an Acoustic Duct System Using Feedback Control Techniques”, in Proc. of 2003 Int. Sym. On Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Awaji Island, Japan, 7-10 Dec. 2003, pp.720-728.

· Zhenyu Yang, “A Sufficient and Necessary Condition for the Controllability of Linear Hybrid Systems”, in Proc. of 2003 IEEE Int. Symp. On Intelligent Control, Houston, USA, 5-8 Oct. 2003. pp. 128-133.

· Zhenyu Yang, “Active Noise Control for a One-dimensional Acoustic Duct Using Feedback Control Techniques: Modelling and Simulation” in Proc. of WSEAS Multiconference in Applied Mathematics, Malta, 1-3 Sept. 2003.

· Zhenyu Yang, David L. Hicks and P. N-Kathiravelu, “Active Noise Control For A Mobile Headset System: A Case Study”, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Applied Simulation and Modelling (AMS2003), Marbella, Spain, 3-5 Sept. 2003, pp.393-398.

2002

· Zhenyu Yang and David H. Hicks, “Reconfigurability of Fault-Tolerant Hybrid Control Systems”, in Proc. of 15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002, pp.xxxx-xxxxx.

· Zhenyu Yang and David H. Hicks, “Multiple objective robust control mixer method for synthesis of reconfigurable control”, in Proc. of 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 8-10, 2002, pp.5092-5097.

· Zhenyu Yang, ``An Algebraic Approach for Controllability of Linear Switched Systems'', IFAC Journal of Automatica, Vol.38, July 2002, pp.1221-1228.

2001

· Zhenyu Yang, “An Algebraic Analysis of Linear Hybrid Systems”, in Proc. of 2001 WSES International Conference on Algorithms Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Systems and Control, Cairns, Australia, 17-21 Dec. 2001. Also in V.V. Kluev and N.E. Mastorakis editors: Topics in Applied and Theoretical Mathematics and Computer Science, WSEAS Press, 2001, pp.164-169.

· Zhenyu Yang (2001). Using Hybrid I/O Automata for Hierarchical Hybrid Control Systems. In Proc. of IEEE MMAR, 28-31 August 2001, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, pp.409-414.

· Zhenyu Yang, `Final Report for The DANVIS Project”, Danish Research Academy, Jan. 2001.

2000

· Zhenyu Yang and Jakob Stoustrup, ``Design of Robust Reconfigurable Control for Parametric and Additive Faults'', in Proc.  of 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'2000), 12-15 December 2000, Sydney, Australia, pp. 4132-4137. ISBN: 0-7803-6641-7.

· Zhenyu Yang, "A Hybrid System Approach towards Redundant Fault Tolerant Control Systems", in Proc.  of 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'2000), 12-15 December 2000, Sydney, Australia, pp.987-992. ISBN: 0-7803-6641-7.

· Zhenyu Yang, Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi and Mogens Blanke, "On-Line Multiple-Model Based Adaptive Control Reconfiguration for a Class of Nonlinear Control Systems",  in IFAC Safeprocess'2000, Budapest, Hungary, June 14 - 16, 2000.  pp 745-750.

· Zhenyu Yang and Mogens Blanke, "The Robust Control Mixer Module Method for Control Reconfiguration",  in Proc. American Control Conference ACC2000 (IEEE Cat. No.00CH36334),  28-30 June 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA. vol.5, pp.3407-3411.

· Zhenyu Yang and Mogens Blanke, "Adaptive Control Mixer Method for Nonlinear Control Reconfiguration: A Case Study",  in Proc. of 12th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2000), 21-23 June 2000, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Poster. ISBN: 0-08-0435459.

· Zhenyu Yang and Mogens Blanke, "A Unified Approach for Controllability Analysis of Hybrid Control systems",  in Proc. of IFAC Conference on Control System Design (CSD2000). June 18-20, 2000, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, pp158-163. ISBN: 0080435467.

1999

· Huazhang Shao, Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ''The Application of  Pseudo-Inverse Method in Flight Control Law Reconfiguration'' (Chinese), in Chinese Journal of Control and Decision, Vol.14, No.3, pp.281-284, 1999.

· Zhenyu Yang, Huazhang Shao and Zongji Chen, "The Frequency-Domain Heterogeneous Control Mixer Module Method for Control Reconfiguration", in Proceedings of  1999 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA99), Hawaii, USA, Aug. 1999, pp1223-1227.

· Zhenyu Yang, Michel Verhaegen and Robert Babuska, ``The Control Mixer Module Method for Control Reconfiguration", Technical Report, Control Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Feb. 1999, 55 pages. 

1998

• Zhenyu Yang, Michel Verhaegen, Yanjun Wang, Zongji Chen, "Hybrid  Controllability of Linear Switched Systems", in Proceedings of 37th CDC, Dec., 1998,  pp.4350-4355.

• Zhenyu Yang,  Zongji Chen and Xuandong Li, ``Formalizing the General Plant for Development of Hybrid Process Control Systems", in Journal of Systems and Electronics, Vol.8, No.4, 1998, pp37-46.

• Jian Lu,Da-Jun Yang and Zhenyu Yang, "A state-space based approach to design of hybrid system and its logic basis", in Chinese Journal of Advanced Software Research (English), Vol.5, No.4, 1998, pp.296-303.

• Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ''Design of Hybrid Controller Basing on the HIOA+ Model"(Chinese), in Chinese Journal of Information and Control, Vol.27, NO.3, pp.172-178, 1998.

• Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ''Analysis, Synthesis and Verification of Hierarchical Hybrid Control Systems"(Chinese), in Chinese Journal of Control and Decision, Vol.13, No.1, 1998, pp7-12,18.

• Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ``Design of Hybrid Controller Basing on HIOA$^+$", in Proceedings of International Conference on Automation of Mixed Processes (ADPM'98), Reims, France, Mar. 1998. [content]

1997

• Chen Zongji and Zhenyu Yang, ''The Description, Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems"(Chinese), in Chinese Journal of High Technology Letters, Vol.7, No.11, 1997, pp50-55.

• Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ``Formalizing the General Plant for Development of Hybrid Process Control Systems", in Proceedings of 1997 IFAC Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS'97), Seoul, KOREA, Jul. 21-22, 1997.

• Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ```A Hybrid I/O Automaton for Hybrid Control Systems'' (Chinese), in Proc. of Chinese Control Conference (CCC97), 1997, pp.799-804.

1996

• Zhenyu Yang, Jian Lu and Zongji Chen, ``A State-Space-Based Approach to Acquisition of I/O Automaton - A Case Study for Design of Hybrid Control Systems", in  Proceedings of  the Third International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'96), Edinburgh, UK, Aug.19-21, 1996, pp202-207.

• Zhenyu Yang, Jian Lu and Zongji Chen, ``Control Analysis, Synthesis  and Verification in Hybrid Control Systems Using I/O Automata - A Case Study",   in Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Sympsuim on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD96), Dearborn, MI, USA, Sept.15-18, 1996, pp38-43.

• Zhenyu Yang, Zongji Chen and Xuandong Li, ``A Plant-Based Formal Approach to Development of Hybrid Process-Control Systems", in Proceedings of 1996 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'96),  Kauai, HI, USA, Nov.18-21, 1996, pp533-539.

• Qiwen Xu and Zhenyu Yang, ``Derivation Control Programs: a Heating System",  in Preprint of the Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Systems (HS'96),  Cornell Univ., USA, Oct.12-14, 1996

1991 - 1995

• Zhenyu Yang and Zongji Chen, ``The Equivalent Discrete Event Model of the Extended Plant in the Hybrid Control Systems'' (Chinese), in Proc. of 1995 Chinese Control Conference  (CCC95), 1995, pp.889-894

• Yang Zhenyu, "The Risk Analysis of Stocks Investment Using the Stochastic Differential Equation Model"(Chinese), in Chinese Journal  of System Engineering, Vol.12, No.4, 1994, pp16-19.

• Zhenyu Yang and Hongxing Zhou, ``The Least-Square Problem of Inversely Solving Inputs of MIMO Distributed Parameter Control Systems'' (Chinese), in Proc. of 1993 Chinese Control Conference(CCC93), Oct. 23-27, 1993, Wuhan, China, pp190-193.

• Hongxing Zhou, Zhenyu Yang and Haitao Li, ``A Note on Inversely Solving Inputs of SISO Distributed Parameter Control Systems'' (Chinese),  in Proc. of Chinese Distributed Parameter Control Conference, Qingdao, China, 1991, pp??.

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