
Areas of Teaching Interest
Analysis and Design of Control Systems, Discrete Time Control Systems, Intelligent Controls, Robust Nonlinear Controls
Areas of Research Interest
Robust and adaptive control of nonlinear systems, Homogeneous systems theory, Output feedback control, Observer design and fault detection, Intelligent control systems, Control of nonholonomic systems, Underactuated mechanical systems, Aerospace systems, Communication network, Robotics
Educational Background
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2001.
Selected Publications
- Qian, S. He, Y. Zou, Compensator-Based Output Feedback Stabilizers for a Class of Planar Systems with Unknown Structures and Measurements, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted on April 6, 2020.
- Zou and C. Qian, A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Stability of a Class of Planar Positive Nonlinear Systems, submitted to IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), submitted on March 17, 2020.
- Cao and C. Qian, Sampled-Data Control of a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems based on Direct Method, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted on March 10, 2020.
- Meng, C. Qian, and Z.Y. Sun, A homogeneous domination output feedback control method for an active suspension of an intelligent Electric Vehicle, submitted to ISA Transactions, submitted on Feb 13, 2020.
- Zou, C. Qian, S. He, A necessary and sufficient condition for stability of a class of planar nonlinear systems, Automatica, submitted on 11/17/2019.
- Su, Y. Hao, W. Zha, and C. Qian, Semi-Global Stabilization of Linearly Uncontrollable and Unobservable Nonlinear Systems via Sampled-Data State and Output Feedback, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, submitted on 8/21/2019, revised on 12/27/2019, accepted with minor revision on 4/14/2020.
- Zhu, and C. Qian, Local asymptotic stabilization for a class of uncertain upper-triangular systems, Automatica, in press, online 04/2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2020.108954
- R. Ramirez, A. M. Herrera, J. Ramirez, C. Qian, D. W. Melton, P. K. Shireman, and Y.-F. Jin, Deriving a Boolean dynamics to reveal macrophage activation with in vitro temporal cytokine expression profiles, BMC Bioinformatics, Volume 20, Article number: 725 (December 2019).
- Zha, C. Qian, J. Zhai, and S. Fei, Robust control for a class of high-order uncertain nonlinear systems via measurement feedback, International Journal of Control, Vol. 92, Issue 6, (June 2019) 1393-1400.
- Meng. C. Qian, and Z.Y. Sun, Finite-time Stability Control of an Electric Vehicle under Tyre Blowout, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Vol. 41, No. 5, (March 2019) 1395–1404.
- Zha, C. Qian, and S. Yan, Controller Design for a Class of Non-Triangular Nonlinear Systems with Input Dependent Growth Rate, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 29, Issue 5, (March 2019) 1325-1338.
- Meng, C. Qian, and Y. Shu, Active steering wheel shimmy control for electric vehicle by sampled-data output feedback, ISA Transactions, Vol. 84, (January 2019) 262-270.
- Du, C. Qian, and S. Li, Global Sampled-Data Feedback Stabilization for a Class of Inherently Nonlinear Systems, Automatica, Vol. 99, (January 2019) 403-411.
- Zhu and C. Qian, A necessary and sufficient condition for local asymptotic stability of a class of nonlinear systems in the critical case, Automatica, 96 (October 2018) 234–239.
- Meng, T. Zhao, C. Qian, Z. Y. Sun, and P. Ge, Integrated stability control of AFS and DYC for electric vehicle based on non-smooth control, International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 49, Issue 7, (July 2018) 1518-1528.
- C. Chen, C. Qian, Z.-Y. Sun, and Y.-W. Liang, Global output feedback stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems with unknown measurement sensitivity, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 63, Issue 7 (July 2018) 2212-2217.
- Zhang, J. Zhu, and C. Qian, On Equilibria and Consensus of Lohe Model with Identical Oscillators, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, Vol. 17, Issue 2, (June 2018) 1716-1741.
- Su, C. Qian, Y. Hao, and M. Zhao, Global stabilization via sampled-data output feedback for large-scale systems interconnected by inherent nonlinearities, Automatica, Volume 92, (June 2018), 254-258.
- Meng, C. Qian, and R. Liu, Dual-rate Sampled Data Stabilization for Active Suspension System of Electric Vehicle, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Volume 28, Issue 5 (25 March 2018), 1610–1623.
- Yan, C. Qian and T. Huang, Global asymptotic synchronization of a class of non-linear systems via sampled-data feedback, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Volume 40, No. 6 (January 2018) 12-21.