{"id":363,"date":"2019-10-30T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2019-11-07T01:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:40:03","slug":"cyber-physical-systems-control-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/labs\/cyber-physical-systems-control-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-Physical Systems &#038; Control Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3 heading-underline\">Location<\/h4>\n<p>Harris Engineering Center (HEC), RM 434<br \/>\nUniversity of Central Florida<br \/>\n4000 Central Florida Blvd.<br \/>\nOrlando, Florida 32816<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3\">Faculty Members<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Zhihua Qu<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Marwan Simaan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3\">Lab Director<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Zhihua Qu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"boldside\">Mission:<\/span><\/strong> The Systems &amp; Control Laboratory is to develop new systematic analysis\/design tools and optimization\/control algorithms that achieve autonomy, guaranteed performance and intelligence for cyber-physical systems. The systems under consideration are networked systems whose dynamics are complex and uncertain, whose interactions are local and intermittent as well as may be competitive, and whose operational condition and environment are highly unpredictable and changing. The specific applications include swarms of robots, tele-operation of medical robots, autonomous operation of UAVs, cooperative guidance of munitions, control of biomedical devices and systems, distributed renewable generation and smart grid. By working with industry and governmental agencies, we aim to address these comtemporary technical challenges in the fields of cyber-physical systems and networked controls.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-2\" \/>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3 heading-underline\">Research Focus<\/h4>\n<p><b>Optimization and Control<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nonlinear systems theory: qualitative and quantitative behaviors, nonlinear optimality, nonlinear stabilizability, observability, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Robust control, adaptive control, nonlinear optimal and near-optimal controls, and observer-based control<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Networked Systems and Autonomous Vehicles<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooperative control of networked heterogeneous dynamical systems<\/li>\n<li>Distributed estimation of topology and connectivity for networked systems<\/li>\n<li>Optimal design of communication topologies for netwotked systems<\/li>\n<li>Autonomous vehicles and their real-time trajectory planning in dynamically changing and uncertain environments.<\/li>\n<li>Controls of nonholonomic dynamical systems<\/li>\n<li>Swarming, coverage control, and other behaviors by cooperative control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Energy Systems &amp; Smart Grid<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooperative control for dispatching distributed power generation, VAR compensation and voltage stability<\/li>\n<li>Distributed game algorithms for smart grids<\/li>\n<li>Distributed state estimation and enhanced security using dynamically changing information topologies<\/li>\n<li>Control of energy storage and harvesting devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Space Systems<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fault tolerant control and systems for space applications<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent life support systems and networked control<\/li>\n<li>Tele-operation and tele-surgery<\/li>\n<li>Heptics and force control techniques<\/li>\n<li>Dexterous robots and vision-based controls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Guidance &amp; Control<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling and control of aerospace systems<\/li>\n<li>Control of flexible systems<\/li>\n<li>Cooperative missile guidance and satellite control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Biomedical Control<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling, control and optimization of LVADs (Left Ventricular Assist Devices)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"my-2\" \/>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3 heading-underline\">Research Publications<\/h4>\n<p>Publications by the students and postdoctors supervised by <a href=\"\/~qu\/publications\/\">Prof. Qu<\/a><br \/>\nPublications by the students and postdoctors supervised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.ucf.edu\/simaan\">Prof. Simaan<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"my-2\" \/>\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3 heading-underline\">Current Members<\/h4>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RolandHarvey.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Roland Harvey<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD student<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nEngineering Physics from Tulane University<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:rharvey2@knights.ucf.edu\">rharvey2@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TowfiqRahman.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Towfiq Rahman<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD student<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nBSc.EEE from Islamic University of Tech, Bangladesh<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:towfiqrahmanlm@gmail.com\">towfiqrahmanlm@gmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RonSarkar.png\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Ranadhir Sarkar<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD student<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EEE from Jadavpur University, India<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:ranadhir.ee@gmail.com\">ranadhir.ee@gmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ViswajithSiruvallur.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Viswajith Siruvallur Vasudevan<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD student<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Simaan)<br \/>\nMSc.Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:viswajithsv@knights.ucf.edu\">viswajithsv@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/michaelrathbun.png\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Michael Rathbun<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD student<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nB.Sc. from University of Central Florida<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:Rathbun.michael@knights.ucf.edu\">Rathbun.michael@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ShahriarTalebi.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Shahriar Talebi<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD student<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Simaan)<br \/>\nB.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology<br \/>\nM.Sc. from University of Central Florida<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:shahriarta@knights.ucf.edu\">shahriarta@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/YingXu.png\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Ying Xu<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">Postdoctor<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nPhD from Harbin Institute of Technology<br \/>\nPhone: 407-882-0136<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:ying.xu@ucf.edu\">ying.xu@ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Yjjoo.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Youngjun Joo<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">Postdoctor<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nPh.D. from Seoul National University<br \/>\nPhone: 407-967-6848<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:Youngjun.Joo@ucf.edu\">Youngjun.Joo@ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"my-2\" \/>\n<h4 class=\"h6 text-uppercase mt-5 mt-lg-0 mb-3 heading-underline\">Recent Members<\/h4>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/WeiLin.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Wei Lin<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Profs. Qu and Simaan)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from Boston University<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:weilin0929@gmail.com\">weilin0929@gmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AliMaknouninejad.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Ali Maknouninejad<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from UCF<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:alimaknouni@gmail.com\">alimaknouni@gmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/YuWang.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Yu Wang<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Simaan)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from UCF<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:wangyu810410@knights.ucf.edu\">wangyu810410@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GeorgeFaragallah.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. George Faragallah<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Simaan)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from UCF<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:georgef@knights.ucf.edu\">georgef@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HamedValizadehhaghi.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Hamed Valizadehhaghi<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:h.haghi@ucf.edu\">h.haghi@ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Snyder.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Mark G. Snyder<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from University of Central Florida<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:marksnyder93@gmail.com\">marksnyder93@gmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MohamedHosani.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Mohamed Yaseen Al Hosani<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">PhD graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from UCF<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:malhosani@knights.ucf.edu\">malhosani@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/vatanaAn.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Vatana An<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">Ph.D. graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nB.Sc. Computer Engineering &#8211;<br \/>\nUniversity of Florida<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:vatana@knights.ucf.edu\">vatana@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AzwirmanGusrialdi.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. Azwirman Gusrialdi<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">Postdoctor<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nPhD from Technische Universitaet Muenchen<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:Azwirman.Gusrialdi@ucf.edu\">Azwirman.Gusrialdi@ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DavidLi.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Dr. David (Chaoyong) Li<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">Postdoctor<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nPhD from Harbin Institute of Technology<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:lcy@ieee.org\">lcy@ieee.org<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"col\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row mb-4 mb-sm-5 pt-md-2\">\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ManojreddyGopu.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Manojreddy Gopu<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">MSc graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from Anna University, India<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:manojreddy@knights.ucf.edu\">manojreddy@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LorenRobinson.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Loren Robinson<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">MSc graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nBSc.EE from UCF<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:lrob20022002@knights.ucf.edu\">lrob20022002@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/~qu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SiddarthRajamani.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Siddarth Vellakovil Rajamani<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .75rem;\">MSc graduate<br \/>\n(supervised by Prof. Qu)<br \/>\nMSc.EE from Anna University, India<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"mailto:siddarthvr@knights.ucf.edu\">siddarthvr@knights.ucf.edu<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"my-2\" \/>\n<strong>Acknowledgements:<\/strong> The research activities at the Lab have been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE), Air Force Office of Scientic Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Army Research Laboratory, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Harris Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, L-3 Communications Coleman Aerospace, L-3 Communications Link Simulation &#038; Training, Leidos, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Texas Instruments, Florida High Tech Council (FHTC), Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC), and Florida Biomedical Engineering Partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location Harris Engineering Center (HEC), RM 434 University of Central Florida 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, Florida 32816 Faculty Members Dr. Zhihua Qu Dr. Marwan Simaan Lab Director Dr. Zhihua Qu Mission: The Systems &amp; Control Laboratory is to develop new systematic analysis\/design tools and optimization\/control algorithms that achieve autonomy, guaranteed performance and intelligence for [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions\/478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~qu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}