
Education background
Bachelor of Electric and Automatic Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science & Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China, 1990;
Ph.D. in Electric and Automatic Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, 1995.
Social service
Robot Competition Committee of Chinese Association of Automation: Vice Director;
Chinese Astronautics Association, Aero Mechanic-Electric and man-machine Environment Committee: senior member;
Youth Academic Committee, Chinese Association of Automation: member;
Intelligent Automatic Professional Committee, Chinese Association of Automation: member;
Intelligent Robotics Professional Committee, Chinese Association of Automation: member;
Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Aeronautic & Astronautic Professional Committee: member.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Nonlinear System, Intelligent Control, Flight Control;
Avionics,Reliabilityof Computer Systems.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China:Unsteady Aerodynamics Based Dynamics Modelling and Coordinated Control of VSTOL Aircraft (2010-);
The National Natural Science Foundation of China-Foundation of Chinese Academic of Engineering:Research on the Develop Strategy of Aircraft Design Technology (2009-2010);
China Railway Department Development Plan of Science & Technology:Key Technology of highreliabilityreconfigurable redundancy fault-tolerant computer for train (2008-2009);
Aviation Research Funding:Software Modeling of board Integrated avionics Core Processor and model based software develop technology (2009-);
Besides, several projects of National High-Tech R&D Program of China (The 863 Program), National Basic Research Program of China (The 973 Program) are also being carried.
Research Status
My group mainly engaged in the theoretical research related to flight control field and the engineering development in recent years. The main work on research and science and technological application is as follows:
1.Thedual-redundancyswitching ring network connection in FC link points and node bypass circuit are invented. EmbeddedDual-redundancyFC communication processor based on PMC bus is developed successfully. Autonomous FC light weight protocol (FC-LP)is presented and realized as well.
2.Multi-redundant force-free dispute electromechanics is invented. Force dispute problem that universally exist in multi-redundant electromechanics is resolved.Redundancy controlbased on the controllers which has cross datalink between each other is invented. Besides,Dissimilar redundancydisplacementmeasurement technologyis presented. AndFault-tolerabilityand thereliabilityof the system are improved without extra hardware cost.
3.Theoptical fiber transmissionflight controlarchitectureis presented based on the unified fiber network.Distributedtriple redundancyoptical fiber transmissionflight control computerbased ondual-redundancyFCarbitrationring network and thedistributedfault-tolerant methodand redundancy management method based on fiber transmission bus are invented. Real-time group communication protocol and fault-tolerance distributed process system software are realized based on soft bus technology. Dynamic management and redundancy resource distribution method are presented.
The unified fiber network (FC) all-electronic control system has been used to apply for more than 30 patents. The research results have reached international advanced level and have been applied in engineering field, producing significant achievements in improving the performance and reliability of the flight control system.
Honors And Awards
PLA Award for Science and Technology Progress, 2nd Class (2007);
Aviation Industry Corporation of China Award for Science and Technology Progress, 1st Class (2000);
Aviation Industry Corporation of China Award for Science and Technology Progress, 2nd Class (1998);
PLA Award, 2nd Class (1998, 2000)
Ministry of Education, The People's Republic of China: Award for Science and Technology Progress, 2nd Class (2004);
Tsinghua University: Excellent Youth Teaching Award (2004);
Academic Achievement
[1] Yang Xili, Fan Yong, and Zhu Jihong. Transition Flight Control of Two Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft. AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 2008, 31(2): 371~385, Full Paper (SCI, Impact Factor: 0.98)
[2] Yang Xili, Zhu Jihong, Huang Xingli, Hu Chunhua, Sun Zengqi. Modeling and Simulation of Rotor Aircraft. ACTA Aeronaitica ET Astronautica SINICA, 2006, 27(4): 584~587 (EI:070310367722)
[3] YANG Xili, ZHU Jihong, SUN Zengqi. Flight control of tiltrotor aircraft in helicopter mode with nacelle tilting.Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology),,2006,46(7): 1297~1300 (EI:064210184824)(in Chinese)
[4] Xili Yang, Jihong Zhu, Zengqi Sun. Attitude Control of Tiltrotor Aircraft on Helicopter Mode with Nacelle Tilting. Proceedings of the 2nd International Basic Research Conference on Rotorcraft Technology, 2005. 11: (352~356)
[5] Tingliang Hu, Jihong Zhu, Chunhua Hu, Zengqi Sun. Direct Adaptive Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Using Neural Networks. Proceeding of first International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC05), August 2005, Changsha, China, part II, pp. 234-241.
[6] Chang Jie Yu, Ji Hong Zhu, Ting Liang Hu and Zengqi Sun,Nonlinear Dynamic Modelling Using Fully Tuned RBF Networks for 4 DOF Tilt Rotor Aircraft Platform. The 2nd International Basic Research Conference on Rotorcraft Technology, Nanjing, China, Nov. 7-9, pp. 442-448. 2005.
[7] C. Yu, Jihong. Zhu, Z. Sun, Nonlinear A daptive Internal Model Control using Neural Networks for Tilt Rotor Aircraft Platform. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (SMCia/05), Finland, pp. 12-16.
[8] C. Yu, J. Zhu, Z. Sun, Adaptive Neural Network Internal Model Control for Tilt Rotor Aircraft Platform. Proceedings of First International Conference ICNC 2005, Changsha, China, August 27-29. pp.262-265.
[9] Changjie Yu, Jihong Zhu, Jinchun Hu and Zengqi Sun, Experimental modeling using modified cascade correlation RBF networks for a four DOF tilt rotor aircraft platform. NEUROCOMPUTING . vol.69, 2006. (SCI IDS:0631JR)
[10] Chunhua Hu, Xingli Huang, Jihong Zhu, Jinchun Hu, and Zengqi Sun. Output Tracking of an Unmanned Tandem Helicopter Based On Dynamic Augment Method. International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems.
[11] Tingliang Hu, Jihong Zhu, Chunhua Hu, Zengqi Sun. Neural Networks Direct Adaptive Control for a Class of MIMO Nonlinear Systems. Proceeding of the IEEE mid-summer workshop on soft computing in industrial applications. Espoo, Finland, une 2005, pp 148-153.
[12] C. Yu, Jihong. Zhu, J. Che, Z. Sun, Input-Output Data Modelling Using Fully Tuned RBF Networks for a Four Degree-of-Freedom Tilt Rotor Aircraft Platform. Proceedings of Fouth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, Nov. 14-18, 2005.
[13] Chunhua Hu, Jinchun Hu, Jihong Zhu, Zengqi Sun. Fuzzy modeling for an unmanned tandem helicopter. 7th International Conference on Mechatronics Technology. 2003
[14] Xingli Huang, Jihong Zhu,Peifa Jia, "Neural Networks Adaptive Controlfor Small Unmanned Tandem Helicopter" the 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation,Dalian, China,June 21-23,2006
[15] Tingliang Hu, Jihong Zhu, Zengqi Sun. Adaptive Neural Control for a Class of MIMO Nonlin-ear Systems with Guaranteed Transient Performance. Proceeding of the third International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006), May 2006 Chengdu, China.
[16] Yong Fan, Jihong Zhu,et.al. Aeroservoelastic Model Based Active Control for Large Civil Aircraft,SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences 2010, 53(4) 1126-1137 DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2008.00225 (SCI,EI)
[17] An Jinxia, Zhu Jihong, Wang Guoqing, Xue Xiaohong. Hierarchical Combination Reliability Modeling Method for Multiple Redundancy Flight Control Computer System, ACTA Aeronaitica ET Astronautica SINICA, 2010, 31(2), pp301-309 (in Chinese)
[18] Yong Fan, Jihong Zhu, Zengqi Sun. Fuzzy Logic Based Constrained Control Allocation for an Advanced Fighter. Proc. of the 2006 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation, Sydney, New South Wales Australia, Nov. 2006.
[19] Tingliang Hu, Jihong Zhu, Chunhua Hu, Zengqi Sun. Neural Networks Robust daptive Control for a Class of MIMO Nonlinear Systems. Proceeding of the second International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2005), May 2005 Chongqing, China,Part II, pp. 60-68.
[20] HU Chun-hua, ZHU Ji-hong, SUN Zeng-qi. Modelling and exact linearization for an unmanned tandem helicopter.Control and Decision. 2004.9 (in Chinese)
[21] Meng Xian-yu, Ban Xiao-juan, Zhang Shu-jun, Tu Xuyan. Design of Multi-Perception System Model for Artificial Fish in Virtual Environment. 2006 IMACS Multiconference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications.( ISBN 7-900718-14-1) 2006. 2109-2113
[22] HUANG Xingli, HU Chunha, HU Jinchun, ZHU Jihong, JIA Peifa, "Mathematical Modeling and Trimming of a Small Unmanned Tandem Helicopter", Third International Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices., Sousse, Tunisia, March 21-24, 2005
[23] Xingli HUANG, Jihong ZHU, Chunhua HU, Peifa JIA, "Nonlinear Control of a Small Unmanned Tandem Helicopter", The 2nd International Basic Research Conference on Rotorcraft Technology, Nanjing, China, Nov. 7-9, 2005.