Bing.Chu

Background

Dr Bing Chu is a post-doctoral researcher in the control group at Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He is currently working with Prof. Stephen Duncan and Dr Antonis Papachristodoulou on an EPSRC funded project using control theory to design sustainable policies for greenhouse gas emissions.

Research Interests

• Application of systems control theory to design sustainable policies for greenhouse gas emissions.
• Analysis and control of large scale networked systems.
• Iterative and repetitive control.
• Multi-dimensional systems.

Education

• Ph.D. (2009) in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield
  • Thesis: Iterative Learning Control using Successive Projection
  • Advisor: Prof. David H Owens
• M.S. (2007) in Control Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China
  • Thesis: Stability Analysis and Filter Design for Two Classes of Spatially Distributed Dynamic Systems
  • Advisor: Prof. Tong Zhou
• B.S. (2004) in Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Thesis: Comparison of performance of several kinds of particle filters

Honors and Awards (Selected)

• 2010 International Travel Grant, The Royal Academy of Engineering (£700)
• 2010 Certificate of Merit for IET Control and Automation Doctoral Dissertation Award 2010
• 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
• 2007-2009 UK Overseas Research Student (ORS) Award

Publications

Journals (Selected)

1. Bing Chu and David H Owens, Accelerated predictive norm-optimal iterative learning control, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, vol. 225, pp. 744-759, 2011.
2. David H Owens and Bing Chu, Modelling of non-minimum-phase effects in discrete-time norm-optimal iterative learning control, International Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 10, pp. 2012–2027, Oct. 2010.
3. Bing Chu and David H Owens, Iterative learning control for constrained linear systems, International Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 7, pp. 1397–1413, Jul. 2010.
4. David H Owens and Bing Chu, Accelerated norm-optimal iterative learning control, International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems, vol. 2, no. 1/2, pp. 4–18, invited paper, Jan. 2010.
5. Bing Chu and David H Owens, Accelerated norm-optimal iterative learning control algorithms using successive projection, International Journal of Control, vol. 82, no. 8, pp. 1469–1484, Aug. 2009.
6. Bing Chu and Yanhong Liu, On the asymptotic stability of positive 2-D systems described by the Roesser model, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 1102–1104, Dec. 2007.
7. Yanhong Liu, Tiejun Chen, Chunwen Li, Yuzhen Wang and Bing Chu, Energy-based disturbance attenuation excitation control of differential algebraic power systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 1081–1085, Oct. 2008.

Conferences (Selected)

1. Bing Chu, Stephen Duncan and Antonis Papachristodoulou, A structured model reduction method for large scale networks, in 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, USA, Dec. 2011, to appear.
2. Bing Chu, Stephen Duncan, Antonis Papachristodoulou and Cameron Hepburn, Analysis and control design of sustainable policies for greenhouse gas emissions, in International Conference on Sustainable Thermal Energy Management, Newcastle, UK, Oct. 2011, to appear.
3. Bing Chu, Stephen Duncan and Antonis Papachristodoulou, A model for using control theory to design sustainable policies for greenhouse gas emissions, in IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Denver, USA, Sept. 2011, to appear.
4. Bing Chu, Zhonglun Cai, David H Owens, Eric Rogers, Chris T Freeman and Paul L Lewin, Experimental verification of accelerated norm-optimal iterative learning control, in 8th UKACC International Conference on Control, Conventry, UK, Sept. 2010.
5. David H Owens, Bing Chu, Zhonglun Cai, Eric Rogers, Chris T Freeman and Paul L Lewin, Modelling the influence of non-minimum phase zeros on gradient based linear iterative learning control, in IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2010.
6. Bing Chu and David H Owens, Iterative learning control for constrained linear systems using projection method, in 2010 International Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM), Loughborough, UK, May 2010.
7. David H Owens and Bing Chu, Iterative learning control for constrained linear systems using successive projection, in Symposium on Learning Control at 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009.
8. David H Owens and Bing Chu, Iterative learning control using successive projection, in the 14th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, Aug. 2009.
9. David H Owens and Bing Chu, Accelerated norm-optimal iterative learning control, in the 2008 Sino-European Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chongqing, China, Dec. 2008.

Contact Info

• E-mail: bing.chu@eng.ox.ac.uk

• Department Address: Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, U.K. Telephone: +44 1865 2 83035.