Lin Zhiyun

Professor, School of Electrical Engineering

 

Phone: +86 571 8795 1637
Fax: +86 571 8795 2152
Email: linz@zju.edu.cn
Office: Room 216, Electrical Engineering Building

Zhejiang University, Yuquan Campus
38 Zheda Road
Hangzhou, China 310027

 

Professional Activities

Senior Member, IEEE
Member, IEEE Control Systems Society
Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Member, IEEE Communication Society
Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems
Associate Editor of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (Elsevier)

 

Education

Ph.D. – University of Toronto, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005
M. S – Zhejiang University, Electrical Engineering, 2001,
B.S. – Yanshan University, Electrical Engineering, 1998

Working Experience

2007-, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University
2009, 2010,2011, Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
2010, 2011, Visiting Professor, College of Engineering & Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia
2005 - 2007, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
 

Research Interests

Large scale multi-agent systems
Cooperative control of distributed robot systems
Wireless sensor networks
Switched and hybrid systems
Feedback control of biped robots

 

Current Projects

  1. Motion coordination of networked multi-agent systems
  2. Cooperative control and distributed beamforming
  3. Reachability analysis of hybrid systems
  4. Feedback control of biped walking based on passive gaits

Publication List

Selected Publications
 

  1. Zhiyun Lin, Mireille Broucke, and Bruce Francis, ``Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp: 622-629, 2004.
  2. Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, ``Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp: 121-127, 2005.
  3. Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, ``State agreement for continuous-time coupled nonlinear systems", SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp: 288-307, 2007.
  4. Ronghao Zheng, Zhiyun Lin, and Gangfeng Yan, "Ring-coupled unicycles: boundedness, convergence and control", Automatica, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp: 2699-2706, 2009.
  5. Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Collective motion and formations under pursuit strategies on directed acyclic graphs", Automatica, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp: 174-181, 2010.
  6. Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Distributed control of cooperative target enclosing based on reachability and invariance analysis", Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp: 381-389, 2010.
  7. Jing Guo, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Local control strategy for moving-target-enclosing under dynamically changing network topology", Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 59, No. 10, pp: 654-661, 2010.
  8. Jing Guo, Zhiyun Lin, Ming Cao, and Gangfeng Yan, "Adaptive control schemes for mobile robot formations with triangularized structures", IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol. 4. No. 9, pp: 1817-1827, 2010.
  9. Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Synthesis of distributed control for coordinated path following based on hybrid control", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp: 1170-1175, 2011.
  10. Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Feedback control of planar biped robots with regulable step length and walking speed", IEEE Transaction on Robotics, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp: 162-169, 2011.
  11. Zhiyun Lin, and Mireille Broucke, “On a reachability problem for affine hypersurface systems on polytopes”, Automatica, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp: 769-775, 2011.
  12. Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Gait generation and control for biped robots with underactuation degree one", Automatica, 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.04.018, 2011.
  13. Zhiyun Lin, Min Wu, and Gangfeng Yan, "Reachability and stabilization of discrete-time affine systems with disturbances", Automatica, to appear, 2011.
  14. Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Pursuit formations with dynamic control gains", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.1692, 2010.
  15. Yizhou Miao, Gangfeng Yan and Zhiyun Lin, “Reach generalized Reuleaux polygon formations”, accepted, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information & Control，Vol.7, No. 6, 2011 (tentatively).
  16. Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Stable running of a planar underactuated biped robot", Robotica, doi:10.1017/S0263574710000512, 2010.


 

Conference List

  1. Jing Guo, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Balanced circular formation control based on gossip communication", in Proceedings of The 30th Chinese Control Conference, Yantai, China, July 22-24, 2011.
  2. Ronghao Zheng, Zhiyun Lin, and Ming Cao, "Rendezvous of unicycles with continuous and time-invariant local feedback", in Proceedings of The 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28- September 2, 2011.
  3. Yizhou Miao, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "A distributed reconfiguration strategy for target enveloping with hexagonal metamorphic modules", in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 9 -13, 2011.
  4. Ying Lan, Zhiyun Lin, Ming Cao, and Gangfeng Yan, "A distributed reconfigurable control law for escorting and patrolling missions using teams of unicycles", in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’10), Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp: 5456-5461.
  5. Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Meiqin Liu, "Time-scaling control and passive walking of bibeds with underactuation degree one", in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’10), Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp: 1116-1121.
  6. Jian Hou, Zhiyun Lin, Wenyuan Xu, and Gangfeng Yan, "Distributed transmit beamforming with autonomous and self-organizing mobile antennas", in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globcom’10), Miami, FL, USA, December 6-10, 2010.
  7. Jing Guo, Zhiyun Lin, Ming Cao, and Gangfeng Yan, "Adaptive leader-follower formation control for autonomous mobile robots", in Proceedings of 2010 American Control Conference (ACC’10), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010, pp: 6822-6827.
  8. Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Stable walking for compass-like biped robot in complex environments", in Proceedings of 2010 American Control Conference (ACC’10), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010, pp: 6048-6053.
  9. Jing Guo, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Cooperative control synthesis for moving-target-enclosing with changing topologies", in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’10), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010, pp: 1468-1473.
  10. Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Necessary and sufficient conditions for reachability of discrete time affine systems on simplices", in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'09), Shanghai, China, Dec. 16-18, 2009, pp: 63-68.
  11. Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "A hybrid control approach to multi-robot coordinated path following", in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'09), Shanghai, China, Dec. 16-18, 2009, pp: 3032-3037.
  12. Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Ying Lan, "Synthesis of output feedback control for motion planning based on LTL specifications", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Louis, MO, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009, pp: 5071-5075.
  13. Dingwei, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Ying Lan, "Leader-following formation control based on pursuit strategies", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Louis, MO, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009, pp: 3698-3703.
  14. Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, ``Self-deployment and coverage of mobile sensors within a bounded region", in Proceedings of the 2009 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC’09), Guilin, China, June 17-19, 2009, pp: 3698-3703.
  15. Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Meiqin Liu, ``Characterization of backward reachable set and positive invariant set in polytopes", in Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference (ACC’09), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, June 10-12, 2009, pp: 4351-4356.
  16. Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, ``A hybrid control approach to cooperative target tracking", in Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference (ACC’09), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, June 10-12, 2009, pp: 2624-2629.
  17. Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, ``Formations on two-layer pursuit systems", in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’09), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp: 3496-3501.
  18. Zhiyun Lin and Mireille Broucke, ``Reachability and control of affine hypersurface systems on polytopes", in Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’07), New Orleans, LA, USA, December 12-14, 2007, pp: 733-738.
  19. Zhiyun Lin and Mireille Broucke, ``Resolving control to facet problems for affine hypersurface systems on simplices", in Proceedings of 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’06), San Diego, California USA, December 13-15, 2006, pp: 2625-2630.
  20. Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, ``Coupled dynamic systems: from structure towards state agreement", in Proceedings of 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC’05), Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005, pp: 3303-3308.
  21. Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, ``On the state agreement problem for multiple nonlinear dynamical systems", in Proceedings of 16th IFAC World Congress (IFAC’05), Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-8, 2005.
  22. Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, ``Feasibility for formation stabilization of multiple unicycles", in Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’04), Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004, pp: 2448-2452.
  23. Zhiyun Lin, Mireille Broucke, and Bruce Francis, ``Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents", in Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’03), Hawaii, USA, December 9-12, 2003, pp: 1006-1011.