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Research Monographs

  • Q.-C. Zhong and T. Hornik, Control of Power Inverters for Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy, Wiley-IEEE Press,  to appear in 2011.
  • A. Visioli and Q.-C. Zhong, Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time, Springer-Verlag Limited, London, to appear in 2010.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Robust Control of Time-delay Systems. ISBN: 1-84628-264-0. Springer-Verlag Limited, London, 2006.
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    Patents

  • Q.-C. Zhong, AC Ward Leonard Drive Systems, UK Patent filed, Application No.: GB0916886.5, September 2009.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Energy Recovery System for Landing Aircraft, UK Patent filed, Application No.: GB0823432.0, December 2008.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and G. Weiss, Inverters that Mimic Synchronous Generators, UK Patent filed, Application No.: GB0820699.7, Nov. 2008.

    • Journal Papers

     
  • Q.-C. Zhong and G. Weiss, Synchronverters: Inverters that mimic synchronous generators, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 2010, to appear.
  • A. Kuperman and Q.-C. Zhong, Robust Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems with State Delays based on an Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator, Int. Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2010, to appear.
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  • S. Shen, J. Zhang, X. Chen, Q.-C. Zhong and R. Thornton, ISG Hybrid Powertrain: A Rule-based Driver Model Incorporating Look-ahead Information, Vehicle System Dynamics, vol. 47, 2009, to appear.


  • S. Hadd and Q.-C. Zhong, On feedback stabilizability of linear systems with state and input delays in Banach spaces, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no.3, 438-451, 2009.


  • Q.-C. Zhong, A. K. Nandi and M. F. Aburdene, Efficient implementation of the discrete Pascal transform using difference operators, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 24, 1348-1350, 2007.
  • J. Sun, Q.-G. Wang and Q.-C. Zhong, A less conservative stability test for second-order linear time-varying vector differential equations, Int. Journal of Control, vol. 80, no. 4, 523-526, April 2007.

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  •  Q.-C. Zhong, J. Liang, G. Weiss, C.-M. Feng and T. Green. H-infinity control of the neutral point in 4-wire 3-phase DC-AC converters. IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, vol. 53, no.5, 1594-1602, 2006.
  •  B. Wang, D. Rees and Q.-C. Zhong. Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time. Part IV: Various Issues about PI controllers. IEE Proc. Control Theory & Appl., vol. 153, no. 3, 302-306, 2006.

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  • R. Majumder, B. Chauduri, B. Pal and Q.-C. Zhong. A unified Smith predictor approach for power system damping control using remote signals. IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 13, no.6, 1063-1068, 2005.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, L. Hobson, M.G. Jayne. Classical control of the neutral point in 4-wire 3-phase DC-AC converters. Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation, vol. 11, no.2, 111-119, 2005.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. J-spectral factorization of regular para-Hermitian transfer matrices.  Automatica, vol. 41, no.7, pp.1289-1293, 2005.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. On distributed delay in linear control laws. Part II: Rational implementations inspired from the d-operator. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control,  vol. 50, no.5, 729-734, 2005.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong and D. Rees. Control of uncertain LTI systems based on an uncertainty and disturbance estimator. ASME J. Dyn. Syst., Meas., Control,  vol. 126, no.4, pp.905-910, 2004.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and G. Weiss. A unified Smith predictor based on the spectral decomposition of the plant. Int. J. Control,  vol. 77, no.15, pp.1362-1371, 2004.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. On distributed delay in linear control laws. Part I: Discrete-delay implementations. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control,  vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 2074-2080, 2004.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and C.-C. Hang. Control of Processes with Dead Time and Input Constraints using Control Signal Shaping.  IEE Proc. Control Theory & Appl.,  vol. 151, no.4, pp.473-480, 2004.
  • G. Weiss, Q.-C. Zhong, T. Green and J. Liang. H-infinity repetitive control of DC-AC converters in micro-grids. IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,  vol. 19, no.1, pp.219-230, 2004.

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  • L. Mirkin and Q.-C. Zhong. 2DOF Controller Parametrization for Systems with a Single I/O Delay. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control.  vol. 48, no. 11, pp.1999-2004,  2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. Robust stability analysis of simple systems controlled over communication networks. Automatica, vol. 39, no. 7, pp.1309-1312, 2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, On the standard H-infinity control of processes with a single delay. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1097-1103, 2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Frequency domain solution to delay-type Nehari problem. Automatica, vol. 39, no. 3, pp.  499-508,  2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, H-infinity control of dead-time systems based on a transformation. Automatica, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 361-366,  2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Control of integral processes with dead time. Part 3: Deadbeat disturbance response. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 153-159, 2003.

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  • G. Meinsma, L. Mirkin and Q.-C. Zhong.  Control of systems with I/O delay via reduction to a one-block problem. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol.47, no. 11, pp.1890-1895,  2002.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and L. Mirkin, Control of integral processes with dead time. Part 2: Quantitative analysis. IEE Proc. Control Theory & Appl. , vol. 149, no. 4, pp. 291-296, 2002.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and J.E. Normey-Rico, Control of integral processes with dead time. Part 1: Disturbance observer-based 2DOF control scheme, IEE Proc. Control Theory & Appl., vol. 149, no. 4, pp. 285-290, 2002.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and H.-X. Li. Two-Degree-of-Freedom PID-Type Controller Incorporating the Smith Principle for Processes with Dead-Time. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 2448-2454, 2002.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong, J.Y. Xie, and Q. Jia, Time Delay Filter Based Dead-beat Control of Process with Dead Time. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol.39, no.6, pp. 2024-2028. 2000.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and J.Y. Xie, Robust Smith Predictive Controller for Processes with Inverse Response. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University. vol.E-4, no.2, pp. 10-16, 1999.

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    Referred Conference  Papers


  • Q.-C. Zhong, Speed-sensorless AC Ward Leonard drive systems, in Proc. of the 20th International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, Pisa, Italy, June 2010.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Four-quadrant operation of AC machines powered by inverters that mimic synchronous generators, in Proc. of the 5th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, Brighton, UK, April 2010.
  • T. Hornik and Q.-C. Zhong, H-infinity repetitive current controller for grid-connected inverters, in Proc. of the 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Porto, Portugal,  3-5 November 2009.
  • S. Hadd and Q.-C. Zhong, On approximate controllability of infinite dimensional neutral systems, in Proc. of the 7th Asian Control Conference, Hong Kong, China, August 27–29, 2009.
  • A. Kuperman and Q.-C. Zhong, Control of uncertain linear systems with a state delay based on an uncertainty and disturbance estimator, in Proc. of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, Haifa, Israel, June 16-18, 2009.
  • T. Hornik and Q.-C. Zhong, Control of grid-connected DC-AC converters in distributed generation: Experimental comparison of different schemes, in Proc. of the 6th Workshop on Compatibility and Power Electronics - CPE 2009, Badajoz, Spain, May 20-22, 2009.
  • A. Kuperman and Q.-C. Zhong, Robust UDE-based control of uncertain nonlinear state-delay systems, in Proc. of the IEEE Region 8 Conference EUROCON 2009, St.–Petersburg, Russia, May 2009.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Ground-operated energy recovery system for landing aircraft,  in Proc. of SUPERGEN 2009: 1st International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, Nanjing, China, April 2009.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and G. Weiss, Static synchronous generators for distributed generation and renewable energy, in Proc. of the 2009 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exhibition (PSCE), Washington, USA, March 2009.


  • S. Hadd and Q.-C. Zhong, Perturbation theory of boundary value problems and approximate controllability of perturbed boundary control problems, In Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2008.
  • A. Visioli and Q.-C. Zhong, Control of integral processes with dead time: Practical issues and experimental results. Proceedings of the International Conference on Control 2008, Manchester, UK, September 2008.
  • S. Hadd and Q.-C. Zhong. Necessary and sufficient conditions for feedback stabilizability of time–delay systems in Banach spaces. In Proc. of the 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS2008), Virginia, USA, July 2008.
  • S. Hadd and Q.-C. Zhong, Passivity of infinite-dimensional linear systems with state, input and output delays, to appear in Proc. of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, South Korea, July 2008.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Recent results on robust control of time-delay systems, to appear in the Proc. of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Chongqing, China, June 2008.

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  • S. Hadd and Q.-C. Zhong, Conditions on feedback stabilization of systems with state and input delays in Banach spaces, in Proc. of the 46th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, New Orleans, USA, Dec. 2007.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. Similarity transformation and algebraic Riccati equations, in Proc. of the 45th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, San Diego, USA, Dec. 2006.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong. A case study for the delay-type nehari problem, in Proc. of the 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Seville, Spain, Dec. 2005.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. J-spectral factorisation via similarity transformations. in Proc. of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Rep., July 2005.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. Rational implementation of distributed delay using extended bilinear transformations. in Proc. of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Rep., July 2005.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, L. Hobson and M. Jayne. Generating a stable neutral point for 3-phase 4-wire DC-AC converters. In Proc. of the 4th Int. Workshop on Compatibility in Power Electronics (CPE 2005), Gdynia, Poland, June 2005.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong and C.-C. Hang. Two-level Control of Processes with Dead Time and Input Constraints,  in Proc. of the 5th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Leuven, Belgium, September, 2004.
  • A. Kuperman, R. Rabinovici and Q.-C. Zhong. Time-delay compensation in solid-state excited autonomous induction generators, in Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, vol.2, pp.769-774, Scotland, UK, April, 2004.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong. What's wrong with the implementation of distributed delay in a control law ?  in Proc. of the 4th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems (TDS'03), Rocquencourt, France, Sept. 2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. Unified Smith Predictor for Dead-Time Systems, in Proc. of the 4th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems (TDS'03), Rocquencourt, France, Sept. 2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong. Stability analysis of simple control algorithms in communication networks, in Proc. of the 2003 European Control Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 2003.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, S.-I. Niculescu and  A. M. Annaswamy. Stability analysis of low-order combustion systems, in Proc. of the 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes, Greece, June, 2003.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong, T. Green, J. Liang and G. Weiss. Robust repetitive control of grid-connected DC-AC converters,  in Proc. of the 41th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Las Vegas, USA, Dec. 2002.
  • G. Meinsma, L. Mirkin and Q.-C. Zhong. H-inf control of systems with a single delay via reduction to a one-block problem, in Proc. of the 41th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Las Vegas, USA, Dec. 2002.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, T. Green, J. Liang and G. Weiss. H-inf control of the neutral point in 3-phase 4-wire DC-AC converters, in Proc. of The 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON'02). Sevilla, Spain, Nov. 2002.
  • G. Meinsma, L. Mirkin and Q.-C. Zhong. A Nehari theorem for continuous-time FIR systems. in Proc. of 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS'02), Notre Dame,  USA. August, 2002.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, Frequency domain solution to the delay-type Nehari problem. in Proc. of 15th IFAC World Congress, Barcelora, Spain, July, 2002.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and H.-X. Li, Delay-type PID controller. in Proc. of 15th IFAC World Congress, Barcelora, Spain, July, 2002.

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  • Q.-C. Zhong, H-infinity control of dead-time systems based on a transformation. In Proc. of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2001, pp.16-21.
  • L. Mirkin and Q.-C. Zhong, Coprime parameterization of 2DOF controller to obtain sub-ideal disturbance response for processes with dead time, in Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Orlando, USA, 2001, vol. 3, pp.2253 -2258.
  • Q.-C. Zhong and H.X. Li, Deadbeat disturbance response of integral process with dead-time, in Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Orlando, USA, 2001, vol.2, pp.1849 -1854
  • Q.-C. Zhong and J.E. Normey-Rico, Disturbance observer-based control for processes with an integrator and long dead-time, in Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Orlando, USA, 2001, vol.3, pp. 2261 -2266
  • Q.-C. Zhong and L. Mirkin, Quantitative analyses of robust stability region and disturbance response of processes with an integrator and long dead-time, in Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conf. on Decision & Control, Orlando, USA, 2001, vol.2, pp.1861 -1866.

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    Papers in Chinese

    Process Control

  • Dynamic Matrix Controller with Model Truncation Error Compensation. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 1999, 33(5): 622-625.
  • Discrete State Space Representation of Dynamic Matrix Controller and its Implementation with Simulink . Information & Control. 2000, 29(7): 639-645.
  • Positive-Response Amplifier to Control Process with Inverse Response. Control and Decision. 2000, 15(5):629-630 (636).
  • PID Controller with Variable Parameters. Information and Control. 1999, 28(4): 273-277.
  • Automatic Tuning of the Robust PID Controller. Journal of Hunan University. 1999,26(5): 56-61.
  • Directly Compensating External Model Controller for Process with Time Delay. Journal of Hunan University. 1999, 26(1): 53-59.
  • Model Reference Based Adaptive PID Controller. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University. 2000, 34(5): 711-714.
  • Rapid Intelligent PI Controller. 99' China Intelligent Automation Conference. Chongqing,Tsinghua University Press. pp534-539. 1999, 9.
  • Design of Robust PID Controller Based on the Pole Assignment. Chemical World. 1998, 39 (suppl.): 207-209.
  • Internal Model Controller for Process with Dead Time. 99' China Conference on Process Control. in Information and Control(Suppl.). 1999, 28(suppl.): 135-139.

    • Time Delay Control

  • Input Shaping Technique Based Dead-beat Control of Processes with Time Delay.Control and Decision. 2000, 15, 2, 230-232.
  • Reduced-order Time Delay Observer with Low-pass Filter for LTI-SISO Systems with Uncertainties. Control & Decision. 2001, 16(4): 468-472.
  • Time Delay Observer with Low-pass Filter for LTI-SISO Systems with Uncertainties. ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA. 2002, 28(2), 272-278.
  • Time Delay Filter to Reduce Residual Vibration: Theories, Methods and Applications. Control and Decision. 2001, 16(3): 263-268.
  • Analysis of Time Delay Filter with Damped Frequency Magnitude Characteristic. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University. 2000, 34(5): 642-645.
  • Time delay observer for systems with uncertainties. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University. 2001, 35(2): 297-300.
  • Time delay control & its applications. Control Theory & Applications. 2002, 19(4): 500-504.
  • Reduced-order time delay observer for LTI-SISO systems with uncertainties. Control Theory & Applications. 2002, 19(6):885.

    • Modeling & Simulation

  • Simulink Techniques for Control System Simulation.Electrical Automation. 1999, 21(3): 28-30.
  • Model Reduction of Complex Industrial Process-- Multi-point Digital Filter Method. Electrical Automation. 1999, 21(5): 4-6
  • Simulink Simulation of Digital Logic Circuit. Measurement & Control Technology. 1999,18(2): 48-50.

    • Industrial Automation

  • Methods to Reduce the I/O Points of the PLC Controlled Elevator. Electric Drive. 1993,1.
  • IEC1131-3: Programming Languages for Programmable Controllers. Electric Drive. 1999.4
  • Distributed Elevator Control System. Measurement & Control Technology. 1999,18(6): 42-44.

    • Network & Communication

  • Study on the Pseudo-FMS Network Technology. Journal of Hunan University. 1996,6.
  • Reciprocity Communication Program Design Based on NetBios. Journal of Hunan University. 1996,2.
  • Network Basic Input/Output Technology. Application of Electronic Technique. 1996.9.
  • Serial Communication with C: Questions and Solutions. Application of Electronic Technique. 1996.8. Selected into Collection of Single-chip Computer Technology(5), which published by Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Press(BUAAP), 1997.

    • Electronic Technology

  • Keyboard Interface for Microcomputer Controlled Systems. Application of Electronic Technique. 1992.11. Selected into Collection of Single-chip Computer Technology(2) BUAAP, 1993.
  • SPI Interface Techniques. Application of Electronic Technique. 1997.2. Selected into Collection of Single-chip Computer Technology(6), BUAAP, 1998.

    • Computer & Information System

  • Inside the C: Parameter Transferring Mechanism and Stack Structure. Computer Era. 1997.2.
  • Design and Implementation of User-defined Reports with PB. Microcomputer Applications. 1998, 14(6): 61-63.
  • Modeling the IIS-based Internet Distributed Management Information System. Modern Electronic Technique. 1999,8(4): 12-14.

    • Others

  • Genetic Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Reasoning Method and Its Simulations. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University. 1999, 33(11): 1468-1470.

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    Ph.D Theses


  • Q.-C. Zhong, PhD Dissertation II (Imperial): Robust Control of Systems with Delays (awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis, the Eryl Cadwaladr Davies Prize), 2004.
  • Q.-C. Zhong, PhD Dissertation I (SJTU): Time Delay Control & Its Applications, 2000.