Guoqiang Hu (Schedule)
Assistant Professor
Degrees:
Ph.D. 2007, Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida
M.Phil. 2004, Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B.Engr. 2002, Automation, University of Science and Technology of China
Years of Service:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, KSU (2008-present)
Research Interests:
• Vision-based control and state estimation
• Nonlinear and adaptive control of dynamic systems
• Control of multi-agent systems
• Robotics and autonomous systems
Principal Publications in Last Five Years:
- G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Visual Servo Control,” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer-Verlag, accepted, to appear 2008.
- N. Gans, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Image Based State Estimation,” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer-Verlag, accepted, to appear 2008.
- K. Dupree, C. Liang, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Control of a Robot and Mass-Spring System Undergoing an Impact Collision,” International Journal of Robotics and Automation, accepted, to appear 2008.
- G. Hu, D. Aiken, S. Gupta, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Range Identification for Paracatadioptric Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, accepted, to appear, 2008.
- K. Dupree, C. Liang, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Global Adaptive Lyapunov-Based Control of a Robot and Mass-Spring System Undergoing an Impact Collision,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 1050-1061, 2008.
- G. Hu, C. Makkar, and W. E. Dixon, “Energy-Based Nonlinear Control of Underactuated Euler-Lagrange Systems Subject to Impacts,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1742-1748, 2007.
- C. Makkar, G. Hu, W. G. Sawyer, and W. E. Dixon, “Lyapunov-Based Tracking Control in the Presence of Uncertain Nonlinear Parameterizable Friction,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 1988-1994, 2007.
- J. Huang and G. Hu, “A Control Design for the Nonlinear Benchmark Problem via the Output Regulation Method,” Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 2, pp. 11-19, 2004.
Memberships:
IEEE
ASME
Awards & Honors:
Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, University of Florida, 2006, 2007
Best paper in Session Award, American Control Conference, 2006
Professinal Services:
Conference Program Committee:
Member, Program Committee, the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2008), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 11-15 May, 2008.
Paper Review:
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics -Part B, International Journal of Computer Vision, International Journal of Robotics Research, European Journal of Control, International Journal of Control, Automatica
Conference: ACC, IROS, ICRA, MSC, ICINCO, CDC
Graduate Research Assistantship Opportunities (posted in 7/2008)
Looking for graduate research assistants who are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. study and doing research in the areas of control, robotics, computational intelligence, and automation. Those who are interested, please email your CV, copies of transcripts, brief statement of research interest, and copies of 1-2 publications (if available) to Dr. Guoqiang Hu at gqhu@ksu.edu.