Robust Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Interconnected Systems with Input Nonlinearities and Faults

Dr. Qikun Shen received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and applications from the Chinese University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, in 1996, the M.Sc. degree in computer science and applications from Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in control theorem and control applications from the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2015.

Dr. Shen is currently a Professor with the College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University. His current research interests include distributed control, consensus control, fault-tolerant control, adaptive control, fuzzy control, neural networks-based control, and intelligent control.

Jiyu Zhu received the M.S. degree in control theory and control engineering from Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, in 2024. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.

His research interests include fault-tolerant control of interconnected systems and their applications.

Dr. Jianye Gong received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2023. He is currently a Lecturer Fellow with the College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China. His research interests include adaptive fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of multi-agent systems and their applications.

Yadong Yang received the M.E. degree in software engineering from Anqing Normal University, Anqing, China, in 2023. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in software engineering with Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China. His current research interests include adaptive control, fault tolerant control, and networked control systems.