Dr. Zhendong Sun
Senior Research
Fellow
Hamilton
Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Tel:
+353 1 708 6462 Fax:
+353 1 708 6269
Email: Zhendong.Sun@nuim.ie
Research Areas:
· control and design
for hybrid/switched systems
· nonlinear control theory
with application to mechanical systems
· sampled-data
systems and multi-rate control
Teaching
Experience:
· linear systems
· stability theory
· nonlinear control
systems
Academic
Qualifications:
· BSc (1990) Chinese
Ocean University, Applied Mathematics
· MSc (1993) Xiamen
University, Cybernetics & Operational Research
· PhD (1996) Beijing
Univ. of Aero. & Astro., Control Theory & Applications
Career History:
· Post-doc Research
Fellow (June 1996—May 1998) Tsinghua University
· Associate
Professor (June 1998—Oct. 2002) Beijing Univ. of Aero. & Astro.
· Research Fellow
(Feb. 2000—April 2001) National University of Singapore
· Research Fellow
(Jan. 2002—Sep. 2002) University of New South Wales
· Senior Research
Fellow (Nov. 2002—present) National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Awards and Honors:
· Guan Zhaozhi Award, Chinese
Control Conference, 2000, Hong Kong
·
Nomination
of Outstanding Reviewer, Automatica, 2003
·
Associate
Editor, IEEE CSS Conference Board, 2004-present
· Member,
International Program Committee, Asia-Pacific Conference on Control and
Measurement, 2002, 2004
· Member, International
Program Committee, 2nd IFAC Conference on the Analysis and Design of
Hybrid Systems, Alghero, Italy, June 2006
Biographic Sketch
I was born at a
small village in Shandong Province, central eastern part of China, on May 31,
1968. In Sept. 1986 I entered into the Department of Applied Mathematics, Ocean
University of Qingdao (currently entitled Chinese Ocean University), where I
got my first degree (BS) in July 1990. At college I mainly interested in
algebraic theory and stochastic analysis while my bachelor thesis was on
algebraic analysis of a regression equation with rank deficiency properties.
The main results were organized into two papers, both published on the
Universities Journal of Computational Mathematics. From Sept. 1990 to July 1993,
I was a graduate student of the Department of System Science, Xiamen
University. Supervised by Prof. Jianju Wang (retired), my master thesis focused
on the properties of optimal processes of differential inclusions and their
applications to certain economic systems. After receiving my MS degree, I
registered to the Seventh Research Division, Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (BUAA), as a PhD candidate with my tutors Prof. Weibing Gao,
late Fellow of Chinese Academy of Science, and Prof. Xiaohua Xia. My PhD thesis,
entitled "On nonregular feedback design of nonlinear control systems"
which finished in May 1996, mainly addressed the feedback linearization problem
and the decoupling (Morgan' s) problem, both by means of nonregular state
feedback control laws.
During June 1996
to June 1998, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of
Automation, Tsinghua University where I started to investigate into hybrid
systems collaborating with Prof. Dazhong Zheng.
In June 1998, I joined the Faculty of Science, Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, as an Associate Professor and taught graduate
courses including linear system theory and design, stability theory, and
nonlinear control systems. From Feb. 2000 to April 2001, I had been with the
Department of Electrical Engineering, the National University of Singapore
(NUS) as a Research Fellow. During that period, I was an eager learner inspired
by my sponsored collaborator, Prof.
Shuzhi S. Ge, and was benefited in writing papers and in research
philosophies, among many others. The following 2002, I moved to the School of Electrical
Engineering and Telecommunications, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) as
a Research Fellow where I worked with Dr. David J. Clements
and Prof. Andrey V. Savkin and my main research concern
was on stabilizing switching/input design for switched linear control
systems. Since Nov. 2002, I have been
with the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), as
a Senior Research Fellow. As a senior member of the switched systems group led
by Prof. Robert N. Shorten, my
current research work is devoting to the establishment of fundamental
properties of switched linear systems which are potentially towards a
comprehensive switched system theory that extends the standard linear system
theory on one hand and applies to more practical situations on the other.
Besides, I am also interested in applying the theoretical framework to issues
of networked control systems, for example, the internet congestion control
problem that quite a few my colleagues are currently working on.
I was the
recipient of the Guan Zhao-Zhi Award at the Chinese Control Conference (Hong
Kong, China) in 2000. Since 2004, I have been serving as an Associate Editor on
the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. Besides, I
served as an IPC member for a couple of international conferences. During the
last years I have been serving as reviewers for the major international
academic journals and conferences in the control community, and I was nominated
as an Outstanding Reviewer for the journal Automatica in 2003.
Apart from work, I
spend much time on sports like swimming, jogging, table tennis and badminton. I
am the organizer of a badminton gang mainly composed of Chinese guys and we
play regularly at the sports centre, NUI Maynooth. I am also a founding trustee
and active number of the Associate
of Chinese Professionals in Ireland (ACPI).
List of Selected Publications
(Soft copies are available upon request by send email to Zhendong.sun@nuim.ie)
Z. Sun and S.S. Ge, Switched Linear Systems: Control and Design. Springer-Verlag,
London, 2005. Communications and
Control Engineering series. ISBN: 1-85233-893-8
Survey Paper
Z. Sun and S.S. Ge, “Analysis and synthesis of switched linear control systems,” Automatica, vol. 41, no. 2,
pp. 181-195, 2005.
1. Z. Sun and S. S. Ge, “Nonregular feedback
linearization: a nonsmooth approach,” IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 1772-1776, 2003.
2. Z. Sun, S. S. Ge, and T. H. Lee, “Stabilization of
underactuated mechanical systems: a nonregular backstepping approach,” International Journal of Control, vol.
74, no.11, pp.
1045-1051, 2001.
3. S. S. Ge, Z. Sun, and T. H. Lee, “Nonlinear feedback
linearization for a class of second-order systems with application to flexible
joint robots,” Automatica, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1819-1824, 2001.
4. S. S. Ge, Z. Sun, T. H. Lee, and M. Spong, “Feedback
linearization and stabilization of second-order nonholonomic chained systems,” International Journal of Control, vol.
74, no. 14, pp.
1383-1392, 2001.
5. Sun, S. S. Ge, W. Huo, and T. H. Lee, “Stabilization
of nonholonomic chained systems via nonregular feedback,” Systems & Control Letters, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 279-289, 2001.
6. Z. Sun and X. Xia, “On nonregular feedback
linearization,” Automatica, vol. 33, no.7, pp. 1339-1344, 1997.
7. S. S. Ge, Z. Sun, and T. H. Lee, “Criterion for
nonregular feedback linearization with application,” 15th Triennial
World Congress of the IFAC, July 21–26, 2002, Barcelona.
8. Z. Sun, S. S. Ge, and T. H. Lee, “Nonregular
backstepping design of underactuated mechanical systems,” Proceedings of IEEE
Conference on Control Applications (CCA), September 5-7, 2001, Mexico City.
9. S. S. Ge, Z. Sun, T. H. Lee, and M. W. Spong,
“Feedback linearization and discontinuous control of second-order nonholonomic
chained systems,” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Control Applications,
September 5-7, 2001, Mexico City.
10. Z. Sun, S. S. Ge, W. Huo, and T. H. Lee,
“Stabilization of nonholonomic chained systems via nonregular feedback
linearization,” Proceedings of 39th IEEE CDC, December 12-15, 2000,
Sydney.