Professor Hongnian Yu

Professor of Computer Science

Chair of UK-Japan Network on Human Adaptive Mechatronics http://www.epsrcham.org.uk/

Co-ordinator of Erasmus e-LINK

 
Prof Hongnian Yu has held academic positions at the Universities of Yanshan, Sussex, Liverpool John Moor, Exeter, Bradford and Staffordshire. He is currently Professor of Computer Science and was the head of the Mobile Communications and Distributed Systems Research Group before its inclusion in the Mobile Fusion Centre at Staffordshire University.

He has extensive research experience in modelling and control of robots and mechatronics devices, and neural networks, mobile computing, modelling, scheduling, planning, and simulations of large discrete event dynamic systems with applications to manufacturing systems, supply chains, transportation networks and computer networks. He has published over 150 journal and conference research papers. He has held several research grants from EPSRC, the Royal Society, and the EU, AWM, as well as from industry. He is a member of EPSRC Peer Review College.

He is a Program Chair of IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control in 2007, a General Chair of International conference on Software Knowledge Information Management and Applications in 2006, and is serving on various other conferences and academic societies. He was awarded the F.C. William Premium for his paper on adaptive and robust control of robot manipulators by the IEE Council in 1997.

BSc (Hons),  MSc, PhD

• Member of EPSRC Peer Review College
• Program Chair of IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control in 2007
• General Chair of International conference on Software Knowledge Information Management and Applications in 2006
  

• Modelling and control of complex interactive networks, Internet congestion control, mobile computing;
• Information engineering, supply chains, modelling, scheduling, planning, control and simulation of flexible manufacturing systems using artificial intelligence techniques and Petri nets theory;
• Robotics, human adaptive mechatronics, dynamics and control of non-linear mechanical systems, adaptive, robust and iterative learning control and applications.

 Overview

• Applications of the emerging technologies, such as RFID and smart sensors technologies, and control, optimisation and simulation techniques in industry
• Knowledge transfer

Commercial work

• Running workshops
• Developing demonstrators for both research and commercial purposes

Main Research Projects

• 1.  UK-Japan Network on Human Adaptive Mechatronics, http://www.epsrcham.org.uk/ (£158K, Funded by EPSRC)
• 2. eLINK – east-west Link for Innovation, Networking and Knowledge  exchange, (5.5 million Euro, funded by EU)
• 3. Investigation and development of two intelligent demonstrators for final-year and MSc students (£6k, Funded by Research Informed Teaching Programme)
• 4. Links with China on Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management (£20K, Funded by EPSRC)
• 5. Intelligent Automation, Computing and Manufacturing, (£60K, Funded by EPSRC)
• 6. Euro-ASia CollaboraTions and NetWorking in Information Engineering System Technology (300K EURO, Funded by EU)
• 7. Combined Adaptive and Robust Methods for Real-Time Control of Mechanical Linkage Systems (£60K, Funded by EPSRC)
• 8. Control Theory and Industrial Applications of Discrete Event Dynamics Systems (£36K - £18K, Funded by Royal Society and £18K , Funded by CAS,)P

• Review of modelling and remote control for excavators (PDF, file size: 490.64KB) , Hongnian Yu, Yang Liu and Mohammad Shahidul Hasan, Int. J. Advanced Mechatronics Systems, Vol 2, Nos 1/2, 2010
• Co-simulation framework for Networked Control Systems over multi-hop mobile ad-hoc networks (PDF, file size: 555.49KB) , M Shahidul Hasan, Hongnian Yu, Alison Griffiths, and T C Yang, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress, The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008
• Analysis and Control of a Capsubot (PDF, file size: 314.45KB) , Y. Liu, H. Yu and T. C. Yang, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress, The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008
• Decentralized PD Control for Non-uniform Motion of a Hamiltonian Hybrid System (PDF, file size: 337.58KB) , Mingcong Deng, Hongnian Yu, Akira Inoue, Int. J. of Automation and Computing, April 2008, p 119-124
• A further study of control for a pendulum-driven cart (PDF, file size: 203.61KB) , Hongnian Yu, Taicheng Yang, Yang Liu and Sam Wane,  Int. J. Advanced Mechatronics Systems, Vol 1, No. 1, 2008 
• Co-simulation of wireless networked control sysems over mobile ad hoc network using SIMULINK and OPNET (PDF, file size: 555.49KB) , M.S. Hasan, H Yu, A Carrington, T.C. Yang, IET Communications 2008
• Decentralized PD control for non-uniform motion of a Hamiltonian hybrid system, M. Deng, H. Yu and A. Inoue, Int. Journal of Automation and Computing, Vol. 5, pp.119-124, 2008.  

Papers presented at the Special Invited Session on Human Adaptive Mechatronics, UKACC Control Conference, Manchester University, 2-4 September 2008 

• Control of a propulsion mechanism over a wireless network (PDF, file size: 280.9KB) , Samuel Oliver Wane, Hongnian Yu
• An Iterative Learning Control Scheme for the Capsubot, (PDF, file size: 112.26KB) Yang Liu, Hongnian Yu and Luige Vladareanu

   

   

 Supervising PhD researchers