PUBLICATIONS:

 

q   Journal Papers

 

[1] W. E. Leithead and Yunong Zhang, “O(N^2)-operation approximation of covariance matrix inverse in Gaussian Process regression based on quasi-Newton BFGS methods,” Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, tentatively accepted, 2005.

 

[2] Yunong Zhang, “A set of nonlinear equations and inequalities arising in robotics and its online solution via a primal neural network,” Neurocomputing, in press, 2005.

 

[3] Yunong Zhang and W. E. Leithead, “Approximate implementation of logarithm of matrix determinant in Gaussian processes,’’ Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, in press, 2005.

 

[4] Yunong Zhang, “Inverse-free computation for infinity-norm torque minimization of robot manipulators,” Mechatronics, in press, 2005.

 

[5] Yunong Zhang and W. E. Leithead, “Exploiting Hessian matrix and trust-region algorithm in hyperparameters estimation of Gaussian process,” Applied Mathematics and Computation, in press, 2005.

 

[6] Yunong Zhang and Sam Shuzhi Ge, “Design and analysis of a general recurrent neural network model for time-varying matrix inversion,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1477-1490, 2005.

 

[7] Yunong Zhang, Shuzhi Sam Ge, and Tong Heng Lee, “A unified quadratic programming based dynamical system approach to joint torque optimization of physically constrained redundant manipulators,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 2126-2132, 2004.

 

[8] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang, “Obstacle avoidance of kinematically redundant manipulators using a dual neural network,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 752-759, 2004.

 

[9] Yunong Zhang, Jun Wang, and Youshen Xia, “A dual neural network for redundancy resolution of kinematically redundant manipulators subject to joint limits and joint velocity limits,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 658-667, 2003.

 

[10] Yunong Zhang, Jun Wang and Yangsheng Xu, “A dual neural network for bi-criteria kinematic control of redundant manipulators,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 923-931, 2002.

 

[11] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang. “A dual neural network for constrained torque optimization of kinematically redundant manipulators,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 654-662, 2002.

 

[12] Yunong Zhang, Danchi Jiang and Jun Wang. “A recurrent neural network for solving Sylvester equation with time-varying coefficients,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1053-1063, 2002.

 

[13] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang, “A dual neural network for convex quadratic programming subject to linear equality and inequality constraints,” Physics Letters A, vol. 298, no. 4, pp. 271-278, 2002.

 

[14] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang. “Global exponential stability of recurrent neural networks for synthesizing linear feedback control systems via pole assignment,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 633-644, 2002.

 

[15] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang. “Recurrent neural networks for nonlinear output regulation,” Automatica, vol. 37, pp. 1161-1173, 2001.

 

Most of them are available online at

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?disp=cit&queryText=(yunong%20zhang<in>au)&valnm=Yunong+Zhang&history=yes

 

q   PhD Dissertation

 

[16] Yunong Zhang, Analysis and Design of Recurrent Neural Networks and Their Applications to Control and Robotic Systems, Ph.D. Thesis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. Publicized via ACM portal with ISBN No. 0-493-98186-1 and with Order No. AAI3077683. Available online at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=936868&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=53842129&CFTOKEN=88274054.

 

q   Book Chapter

 

[17] Jun Wang and Yunong Zhang, “Recurrent neural networks for real-time computation of inverse kinematics of redundant manipulators,” in book Machine Intelligence: Quo Vadis? P. Sincak, J. Vascak, and K. Hirota (eds.), World Scientific: Singapore, pp. 299-319, 2004.

 

q   Conference Papers

 

[18] Yunong Zhang, “Towards piecewise-linear primal neural networks for Optimization and Redundant Robotics,” in the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Florida, U.S.A., April 23-25, 2006.

 

[19] Yunong Zhang, “Uniformly distributed seeds for randomized trace estimator on O(N^2)-operation log-det approximation in Gaussian process regression,” in the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Florida, U.S.A., April 2006.

 

[20] Yunong Zhang, W. E. Leithead, and D. J. Leith, “Time-series Gaussian process regression based on Toeplitz computation of O(N^2) operations and O(N)-level storage,” the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, December 2005.

 

[21] Yunong Zhang, “Minimum-Energy Redundancy Resolution Unified by Quadratic Programming,” in the 15th International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics, Brussels, Belgium, November 2005.

 

[22] W. E. Leithead, Yunong Zhang, and Keith Neo, “Wind turbine rotor acceleration: identification using Gaussian regression,’’ the 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005.

 

[23] Yunong Zhang, “Revisit the analog computer and gradient-based neural system for matrix inversion,” in the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Cyprus, pp.1411-1416, June 2005.

 

[24] W. E. Leithead, Yunong Zhang, & D. J. Leith, “Efficient Gaussian process based on BFGS updating and logdet approximation,” in the 16th IFAC world congress, Prague, July 2005.

 

[25] Yunong Zhang, “On the LVI-based primal-dual neural network for solving online linear and quadratic programming problems,” in the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, pp. 1351- 1356, June 2005.

 

[26] Yunong Zhang and Shuzhi Sam Ge, “A primal neural network for solving nonlinear equations and inequalities,” in the 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, Singapore, pp. 1232-1237, December 2004.

 

[27] Shuzhi Sam Ge, Yunong Zhang, and Tong Heng Lee, “Acceleration-based weighting scheme for minimum-effort manipulator inverse kinematics,” in the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Taiwan, pp. 275-280, September 2004.

 

[28] Yunong Zhang and Shuzhi Sam Ge, “A general recurrent neural network model for time-varying matrix inversion,” in the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, USA, pp. 6169-6174, December 2003.

 

[29] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang, “Obstacle avoidance of redundant manipulators using a dual neural network,” in the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 2, pp. 2747-2752, September 2003.

 

[30] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang, “Bi-criteria kinematic control of redundant manipulators using a dual neural network,” in the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 1, pp. 41-46, May 2002.

 

[31] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang, “Torque Minimization of Kinematically Redundant Manipulators Using a Dual Neural Network,” in the 8th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Shanghai, China, November 2001.

 

[32] Yunong Zhang and Jun Wang, “Recurrent Neural Networks for Nonlinear Output Regulation,” in the 1st IFAC/IEEE Symposium on System Structure and Control, Prague, Czech, August 2001.

 

q   Selected Chinese Papers (just to show my previous interests/experience)

 

Yunong Zhang, Software Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks Using Java and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Technology, Master Thesis, South China University of Technology, 1999 (J You definitely could read it, at least some English paragraphs and/or pictures J).

 

Xiaowen Xu, Yunong Zhang, and Zongyuan Mao, “The object-oriented artificial neural network application using JAVA,” Computer Engineering and Application, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 38-40, 1999.

 

Xiaowen Xu, Yunong Zhang, and Zongyuan Mao, “A method of dynamically growing and pruning the hidden-layer neurons in a feedforward neural network,” Journal of Zhongkai Agrotechnical College, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 20-23, 1999.

 

Yunong Zhang, Xiaowen Xu, and Zongyuan Mao, “JAVA-based online client-chatting system in world wide web (WWW) environments,” Micro-Computer Information, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 20-22, 1998.

 

Yunong Zhang, Xiaowen Xu, and Zongyuan Mao, “JAVA programming language with application in artificial neural network,” Journal of Jinan University, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 108-112, 1998.

 

Yunong Zhang and Zongyuan Mao, “The automatic alarming and remote control system for cars,” in the 1996 Guangdong Postgraduate Conference on Electronics and Information Technology, SCUT, Guangzhou, December 1996.