On October 31st, Professor Zhihong Man, aninternationalexpert in robotics and control theory at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, was invited to give an online academic lecture for the graduate students and teachers of School of Automation in classroom H4511.
The theme of this lecture is "Some Issues of Vehicle Informatics".It is shown that the dynamics of yaw rate and slip angle of road vehicles can be decoupled in the s-domain, the relationship between the yaw rate and slip angle can then be revealed in both the s-domain and time-domain. The new findings in this work will play an important role of developing next generation of state estimation, parameter identification, soft-sensing and stability control of lateral dynamics of road vehicles.
Professor Zhihong Man's wonderful report, truth-seeking and pragmatic scientific attitude, rigorous and pragmatic academic style deeply affected the teachers and students present. The interactive atmosphere was relaxed and warm. This lecture broadened the international vision of our teachers and students, and laid a foundation for further strengthening in-depth cooperation in related fields in the future.
Professor Zhihong Man’s brief CV
Zhihong received his B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, in 1982, the M.Sc degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1987, and the PhD degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1994. From 1994 to 1996, Zhihong was the Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering at Edith Cowan University, Australia. From 1996 to 2001, he was the Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at The University of Tasmania, Australia. From 2002 to 2007, he was the Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2007 to 2008, he was with Monash University Sunway Campus, where he served as the Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and the Chair of the Monash Sunway Campus Research Committee. Zhihong is currently the Professor of Engineering in the School of Science, Computing Engineering Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Zhihong’s research interests are in nonlinear control, signal processing, robotics, neural networks, engineering optimization and vehicle dynamics & control. He has published more than 250 research papers in refereed international journals and refereed international conferences proceedings, and his research results have widely cited about 15000 times by the researchers from more than 30 different countries. Since 1994, Zhihong has been involved in many international conferences in control, robotics, signal processing, neural networks and industrial electronics as the General Chair, Program Committee Chair, Track Chair, Session Chair, and the International Advisory Committee and Technical Committees member.
In addition, Zhihong received the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)Best Teacher Award in 2004 and the Most Popular Lecturer in the School of Computer Engineering at NTU from 2002 to 2007, respectively.
International Joint Research Center of Robots and Intelligent Systems
