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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, Kansas State University (2008.7-present)
  • Postdoc Associate, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida (2008.1-2008.6)

Courses Taught:

  • ME 570 Control of Mechanical Systems I

Research Interests:

  • Nonlinear adaptive control, nonlinear optimal control
  • Vision-based control and state estimation
  • Multiagent systems, autonomous systems, robotics 
  • Distributed sytems, renewable energy systems


Principal Publications in Last Five Years:

  • G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Quaternion-Based Visual Servo Control in the Presence of Camera Calibration Error,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, accepted, to appear, 2009.
  • G. Hu, N. Gans, N. Fitz-Coy, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Homography-Based Visual Servo Tracking Control Via A Quaternion Formulation,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, accepted, to appear, 2009.
  • G. Hu, W. Mackunis, N. Gans, W. E. Dixon, J. Chen, A. Behal, D.M. Dawson, “Homography-Based Visual Servo Control with Imperfect Camera Calibration,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1318-1324, 2009.
  • G. Hu, N. Gans, and W. E. Dixon, “Adaptive Visual Servo Control,” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity, a volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer, pp. 42-63, Vol. 1, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6.  
  • N. Gans, G. Hu, and W. E. Dixon, “Image Based State Estimation,” in Autonomous Robotics, Complexity and Nonlinearity, a volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer, pp. 4751-4776, Vol. 5, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6. 
  • 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, Vol. 53, No. 7, pp. 1775-1781, 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
  • Sigma Xi

Awards & Honors:

  • Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, University of Florida, 2006, 2007
  • Best paper in Session Award, American Control Conference, 2006


Professional Services:

  • Associate editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009
  • International Program committee member, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) of IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 2010
  • Program Committee member, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2008, 2009
  • Reviewer for journals: 
    • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics -Part B
    • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
    • International Journal of Computer Vision
    • International Journal of Robotics Research
    • European Journal of Control
    • ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
    • AIAA Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
    • Journal of Control Science and Engineering
    • International Journal of Control
    • Automatica
    • ISA Transactions
  • Reviewer for conferences:
    • IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (2007, 2008, 2009)
    • American Control Conference (ACC) (2007, 2009)
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) (2009)
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2008, 2009)
    • International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) (2008, 2009)
    • IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC) (2006, 2007, 2008)
    • IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA) (2009)
    • ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) (2008, 2009)
    • ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) (2009)
    • ASME International Mechanical Engineers Congress and Exposition (IMECE) (2009)