Lai Guanyu, Associate Professor (Young Hundred-Talent Program of GDUT), Master Supervisor. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Virginia, USA, and a Research Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As a project leader, he is undertaking 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and 1 Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and has completed 2 Postdoctoral Science Foundations of China. He has published more than 30 SCI papers, among which most are published in the top journals such as Automatica and IEEE Transactions, and there are two ESI highly-cited papers. Also he has attended many international famous control conferences such as American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Asian Control Conference (ACC), etc, and published more than 8 conference papers. 

Adaptive Control; Nonlinear Systems, Robust Control; Actuator Failure Compensation

Introduction

Publications:

[1]     Guanyu Lai, Gang Tao, Yun Zhang, Zhi Liu: Adaptive Control of Noncanonical Neural-Network Nonlinear Systems With Unknown Input Dead-Zone Characteristics. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Early Access, 2019.

[2]     Guanyu Lai, Yun Zhang, Zhi Liu, C. L. Philip Chen: Indirect Adaptive Fuzzy Control Design With Guaranteed Tracking Error Performance For Uncertain Canonical Nonlinear Systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 27(6): 1139-1150 (2019).

[3]     Guanyu Lai, Changyun Wen, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen, Shengli Xie: Adaptive compensation for infinite number of actuator failures based on tuning function approach. Automatica 87: 365-374 (2018).

[4]     Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen, Shengli Xie: Adaptive backstepping-based tracking control of a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems. Automatica 91: 301-310 (2018).

[5]     Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, C. L. Philip Chen, Yun Zhang, Xin Chen:  Adaptive Compensation For Infinite Number of Time-Varying Actuator Failures in Fuzzy Tracking Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 26(2): 474-486(2018).

[6]     Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, Chun Lung Philip Chen, Shengli Xie: Asymmetric Actuator Backlash Compensation in Quantized Adaptive Control of Uncertain Networked Nonlinear Systems. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 28(2): 294-307 (2017).

[7]     Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen, Shengli Xie, Yanjun Liu: Fuzzy Adaptive Inverse Compensation Method to Tracking Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems With Generalized Actuator Dead Zone. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 25(1): 191-204 (2017).

[8]     Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen, Shengli Xie: Adaptive Inversion-Based Fuzzy Compensation Control of Uncertain Pure-Feedback Systems With Asymmetric Actuator Backlash. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 25(1): 141-155 (2017).

[9]     Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen: Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems With Asymmetric Actuator Backlash Based on a New Smooth Inverse. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 46(6): 1250-1262 (2016).

[10] Guanyu Lai, Zhi Liu, Yun Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen: Adaptive Position/Attitude Tracking Control of Aerial Robot With Unknown Inertial Matrix Based on a New Robust Neural Identifier. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 27(1): 18-31 (2016).

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