
Variable Structure Control of Complex Systems
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Zehui Mao (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Professor with the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She has authored over 70 referred international journal articles. She worked in the areas of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, with particular interests in nonlinear control systems, multiagent systems, and spacecraft flight control applications. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and Neurocomputing.
Yunkai Wu was born in Jiangsu, China, in 1989. He received the Ph.D. degree from the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2017. He was an Academic Visitor with The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Automation, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang. His current research interests include incipient fault detection, diagnosis, prognosis of high-speed trains, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
Shangkun Liu is currently a Lecturer with the College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China. His current research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of multi-agent systems and their applications.
Bin Jiang (Fellow, IEEE) is currently the President of the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, and a Chair Professor of the Cheung Kong Scholar Program with the Ministry of Education. He has authored eight books and over 100 referred international journal articles. His current research interests include intelligent fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and their applications to helicopters, satellites, and high-speed trains. Dr. Jiang was a recipient of the National Natural Science Award of China. He currently serves as a Senior Editor for International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, and an Associate Editor or an Editorial Board Member for a number of journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is a Fellow of the Asia–Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association and the Chinese Association of Automation, the Chair of Control Systems Chapter in IEEE Nanjing Section, the President of Nanjing Branch of AAIA, and a member of IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes.
Xing-gang Yan is currently a Senior Lecturer of Control Engineering with the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He has published three books, six invited book chapters, and over 200 refereed papers in the area of control engineering. His research interests include sliding mode control and decentralized control with applications in engineering systems. Dr. Yan received the Best Application Paper Award of the Asian Control Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, in 2019. He received the Best Application Paper Award of the Asian Control Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, in 2019. He is an Associate Editor of IET Control Theory & Applications, Complexity, and Energies. He serves as a TPC member for a number of international conferences.