Name:

Mingcong DENG
Professor & Department Chair

Business Address:

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
(The Graduate School of Engineering)
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2-24-16 Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
184-8588
Tel. +81-42-388-7134
Fax. +81-42-388-7134
E-mail: deng at cc.tuat.ac.jp

CONTENTS

1. Summary

2. Education and Background Information

3. Research Interests

4. Activities and organizations

5. Selected Publications [Published and Accepted JOURNAL PAPERS: 200 {English Journal: 176; Japanese Journal: 24}, Books: 15(Including Book Chapter), Proc. Papers: 365]

 

1. Summary:

·  Professor Mingcong Deng is a professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Professor Deng's research interests include learning & operator based robust nonlinear control system designs and applications. His research is at the forefront of heralding the next generation of learning & operator based nonlinear safety control, which will have a monumental impact on key aspects of industries and life-science systems, including fault detection, isolation and tolerant control of nonlinear systems.

·  He has significantly contributed to learning & operator based nonlinear control technology, systems development and knowledge. His research results have been expounded in one monograph by IEEE Press Series on Systems Science and Engineering, as well as in more than 580 publications in prestigious journals and prominent conferences, with several important application approaches, such as: Networked Distributed Control System (DCS) device based processes, polymer electrolyte fuel cells, smart materials actuators, wood drying systems, wireless power transfer systems, 3-DOF micro hands, micro reactors, and carbon dioxide capture and storage systems.

·  He is a fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan, and a fellow of IEEE.

·  He is a Chair of Environmental Sensing, Networking, and Decision Making Technical Committee of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and Co-Chair of Agricultural Robotics and Automation Technical Committee of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Deng has organized 13 times International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems as the general chair, which is technically sponsored by IEEE SMC Society.

·  Professor Deng received the 2014 & 2019 Meritorious Services Award from IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 2020 IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award from IEEE RAS Society.

2. Education and Background Information:

·       Education: B. Sc.; M. Sc.; Ph.D.

·       Research Experience: Research Fellow (University of Exeter, UK); Research Associate (NTT CS Lab., Japan); Visiting Scientist (Concordia University, Canada).

·       Academic Position (From 1997.4): Kumamoto University (Assistant Professor), Okayama University (Assistant Professor, and then Associate Professor), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Professor).

3. Research Interest:

1) Learning schemes, safety control and fault isolation (Started at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology);

2) Fault detection and fault tolerant control system design of thermoelectric conversion elements (Started at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology);

3) Robust nonlinear compensation of smart material actuators and microhands (Started at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology);

4) Modeling of non-linear systems (Started at University of Exeter, UK);

5) Control of nonlinear systems with hysteresis (Started at Concordia University, Canada);

6) Estimation of human arm viscoelasticity (Started at NTT Communication Science Lab, Japan);

7) Strong stability-based anti-windup compensation (Started at Okayama University);

8) Parallel compensator design (Started at Kumamoto University, Japan);

9) Operator-based nonlinear control and fault diagnosis (Started at Okayama University, Japan);

10) Control systems design - Self-tuning control (Started at Northeastern University, China); Simple adaptive control (Started at Kumamoto University, Japan); Generalized predictive control (Started at Okayama University).

4. Activities and organizations:

1.     International Conference Organisation:

1) Special Session Co-Chair, The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control;

2) (7 times) Program Chair or Co-Chair of IEEE SMC financially or technically sponsored international conferences;

3) General Chair, International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (2010);

4) (7 times) IEEE SMC financially or technically sponsored international conferences as International Advisory Committee etc.;

5) Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (2010);

6) Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (2011);

7) Regional Chair, The 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (2014);

8) Co-Chair, Steering Committee of 18th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (2021);

9) Co-Chair, Special Session of The 2021 International Conference on Cyber-physical Social Intelligence;

10) (13 times) General Chair, The International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (2011-2023).

2.     Editorship:

1) Editor in Chief, International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems(http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijamechs);

2) Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer sciences (2005.4-2009.3);

3) Associate Editor, Transactions of the The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (2007.4-2009.3);

4) Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal (2008-);

5) Associate Editor of Special Issue, Proc. of IMechE, Part I: Journal of Sys. and Control Eng.;

6) Associate Editor of Special Issue on New Trends in Advanced Control and Applications, IJICIC;

7) Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control;

8) Editorial Board Member, International Review of Automatic Control (2008-);

9) Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (2009-);

10) Editorial Committee Member, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (2011.4-2013.3);

11) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2012.1-2016.9);

12) Editor in Chief (2014-), The Global Journal of Technology and Optimization;

13) Associate Editor, IEEE/CAA JOURNAL OF AUTOMATICA SINICA (2017.1-2018.12).

3.     Ph.D Examiner: Monash Research Graduate School, Monash University (Australia); Shibaura Institute of Technology; Okayama University of Science; Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (India); Okayama University; Anna University (India); Romanian Academy (Romania).

4.     IPC & NOC Member of Conferences: 160+ international conferences.

5.     Plenary Lecture, etc.:

1) The Second International Conference on Impulsive Dynamical Systems and Applications (Oct. 2005);

2) The Third International Conference on Impulsive Dynamical Systems and Applications (July 2006);

3) The 13th International Conference on Automation and Computing (Sept. 2007);

4) The 2008 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (June 2008);

5) The Third International Workshop on Networked Control (Aug. 2008);

6) UK Postgraduate Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (Jan. 2009);

7) The 3rd International Forum on Systems and Mechatronics (Sept. 2010);

8) The 4th Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization (Dec. 2010);

9) The 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Automotive Engineering & Mobility Research (December 4, 2015);

10)-34) HAM 2010, IEEE ICNSC 2017, CJCET 2017, CIEE 2017, SRC 2018, ICICTT 2018, REPE 2018, ICMIC 2019, FIPAI 2019, SECCE 2019, REPE 2019, ICSSDO 2019, REPE 2020, ICICO 2020, ISMIC 2020, IEEE ICMRA 2020, FAAI 2021, ICO 2020, IWAMechS 2021, etc.

6.     Collaboration People so far: From 1) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD.; 2) NTT Communication Science Laboratories; 3) University of Virginia, USA; 4) Staffordshire University, UK; 5) Concordia University, Canada; 6) Takamatsu National College of Technology; 7) The University of Manchester, UK; 8) University of the West of England, UK; 9) Kagawa National College of Technology; 10) Okayama University; 11) Kagawa University; 12) Northeastern University, China; 13) Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; 14) China University of Mining and Technology; 15) Kyoto University; 16) University of Lincoln, UK; 17) Romania Academy, Institute of Solid Mechanics, Romania; 18) Ritsumeikan University, Japan; 19)Osaka Institute of Technology,Japan; 20) MEIKEN LAMWOOD Corp., Japan .

7.     Lecture for University:

1) Strongly stable continuous-time generalized predictive control of reformer temperature of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Seminar at Zhejiang University, 2008.7.2;

2) Nonlinear control and fault detection based on operator theory approach, Seminar at Tongji University, 2008.7.2;

3) Nonlinear control of mechanical systems, Seminar at Leicester University, 2007.4.19;

4) Nonlinear control of inverted pendulum experimental systems, Seminar at Loughborough University, 2007.4.19;

5) Nonlinear swing-up control of inverted pendulums, Seminar at Control Systems Centre, University of Manchester, 2006.9.4;

6) Operator-based nonlinear tracking control systems and fault diagnosis, Seminar at Control Systems Centre, University of Manchester, 2006.9.4;

7) Nonlinear control of mechanical systems, Seminar at Staffordshire University, 2006.9.6;

8) Nonlinear control of inverted pendulum experimental systems, Seminar at University of Sheffield, 2006.9.8;

9) Operator-based nonlinear control system design and fault diagnosis, Northeastern University, Nov. 2005;

10) Lecture on Adaptive filtering and applications, Adaptive and Learning Control Research Division of SICE, Tokyo Denki University, Oct., 2004;

11) Special Lecture on robust estimation of human multijoint arm viscoelasticity during movement, Adaptive and Learning Control Research Division of SICE, Sophia University, Tokyo, Oct., 2004;

12) Re-modeling method and its application, Heilongjiang Mining Institute, July 13, 1999;

13) Simple adaptive control with robust parallel compensator, Northeastern University, July 15, 1999;

14) Operator based modeling, robust nonlinear control and fault detection & isolation, New approach of system control engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, June 30, 2015;

Recently, Loughborough University, UK; Qingdao University; South China University of Technology; China University of Petroleum; Zhejiang University; China University of Mining and Technology; Southern University of Science and Technology; Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Jinan University; University of Lincoln, UK; etc.

8.     Award: 2006 SICE-ICCAS Best Paper Award, 2014 Meritorious Services Award of IEEE SMC Society, 2019 Meritorious Services Award of IEEE SMC Society, etc.

9.     Membership: Fellow of IEEE, AAIA; Member of SICE, IEICE, JSME, SCI, and IEEJ.

5. Selected Publications [Published and Accepted JOURNAL PAPERS: 200 {English Journal: 176; Japanese Journal: 24}, Books: 15(Including Book Chapter), Proc. Papers: 365] :

The papers are published (or accepted) by IEEE Trans. ; IET-CTA; Int. J. Control; Sys. & Control Letters; Int. J. Robust Nonlinear Control; Proc. IMechE, JSCE; Int. J. Systems Science; European J. Control; Asian J. Control; Robotics and Compu.-Integ. Manufacturing; J. of the Franklin Institute; Trans. of the Institute of Measurement and Control(UK);Int. J. of Control, Automation, and Systems; etc.

·       Operator based nonlinear feedback control design using robust right coprime factorization
M. Deng, A. Inoue, and K. Ishikawa
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 4, 645-648(2006).

·       Stable robust feedback control system design for unstable plants with input constraints using robust right coprime factorization
M. Deng, Akira Inoue, Akira Yanou
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol.17, Issue 18, 1716-1733(2007).

·       Fault detection in a thermal process control system with input constraints using robust right coprime factorization approach
M. Deng, A. Inoue, and K. Edahiro
Proc. of IMechE, Part I: Journal of Sys. and Control Eng., Vol.221, No.I6, 819-831(2007).

·       Networked nonlinear control for an aluminum plate thermal process with time-delays
M. Deng, and A. Inoue
International Journal of Systems Science, Vol.39, No.11, 1075-1080(2008).

·       Robust nonlinear control and tracking design for multi-input multi-output nonlinear perturbed plants
M. Deng, S. Bi, and A. Inoue
IET Control Theory & Applications (formed by IEE), Vol.3, No.9, 1237-1248 (2009).

·       Two wheeled mobile robot motion control in dynamic environments
M. Deng, A. Inoue, K. Sekiguchi, and L. Jiang
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Available online 2 December 2009, Vol.26, No.3, 268-272(2010).

·       Operator based robust control for nonlinear systems with Prandtl-Ishlinskii hysteresis
M. Deng, C. Jiang, A. Inoue, and C. Y. Su
International Journal of Systems Science, Vol.42, No.4, 643-652(2011).

·       Isomorphism-based robust right coprime factorization of nonlinear unstable plants with perturbations
M. Deng, and N. Bu
IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol.4, No.11, 2381-2390(2010).

·       Operator-based robust nonlinear control system design for MIMO nonlinear plants with unknown coupling effects
M. Deng, and S. Bi
International Journal of Control, Vol.83, No.9, 1939-1946(2010).

·       System design for nonlinear plants using operator-based robust right coprime factorization and isomorphism
N. Bu, and M. Deng
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol.56, No.4, 952-957(2011).

·       Operator based output tracking control for nonlinear uncertain systems with unknown time-varying delays
S. Bi, M. Deng, and S. Wen
IET Control Theory & Applications (2011).

·       Actuator fault detection on a process control experimental system using combined observers
M. Deng, T. Maekawa, N. Bu, and A. Inoue
Proc. of IMechE, Part I: Journal of Sys. and Control Eng. (2011).

·       Operator based robust control design for nonlinear plants with perturbation
S. Bi, and M. Deng
International Journal of Control, Vol.84, No.4, 815-821(2011).

·       Robust control for nonlinear systems using passivity-based robust right coprime factorization
M. Deng, and N. Bu
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol.57, No.10,2599-2604(2012).

·       Robust control for nonlinear systems with unknown perturbations using simplified robust right coprime factorization
M. Deng, and N. Bu
International Journal of Control, Vol.85, No.7, 842-850 (2012).

·       Robust nonlinear control design to an ionic polymer metal composite with hysteresis using operator based approach
M. Deng, and A. Wang
IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol.6, No.17, 2667-2675(2012).

·       Robust Stability and Tracking for Operator-Based Nonlinear Uncertain Systems
S. Bi, M. Deng, and Y. Xiao
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol.12, No.3, pp. 1059-1066, 2015.

·       Adaptive Nonlinear Sensorless Control for an Uncertain Miniature Pneumatic Curling Rubber Actuator Using Passivity and Robust Right Coprime Factorization
M. Deng and T. Kawashima
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2016

·       Robust nonlinear tracking control system design of an uncertain multivariable process driven by a distributed control system (DCS) device
K. Furukawa, M. Deng
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 2017

·       Adjoint operator-based isomorphism realization and control design for nonlinear systems
F. Tao, M. Deng
IET Control Theory & Applications, 2016

·       A Miniature Pneumatic Bending Rubber Actuator Controlled by Using PSO-SVR-Based Motion Estimation Method with Generalized Gaussian Kernel
K. Fujita, M. Deng, and S. Wakimoto
Actuators, 2017

·       Perturbed nonlinear systems control using extended robust right coprime factorization
F. Tao, M. Deng
International Journal of Control, 2017

·       Experimental Study on Robust Nonlinear Forced Vibration Control for an L-Shaped Arm with Reduced Control Inputs
Y. Wu, M. Deng
IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 2017

·       Operator-based Robust Nonlinear Control for SISO and MIMO Nonlinear Systems with PI Hysteresis
S. H. Bi, L. Wang, S. Wen, and M. Deng
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2018

·       Operator-based robust nonlinear vibration control for an L-shaped arm with unknown load by using on-line wavelet transform
Y. Wu, M. Deng
IET Control Theory & Applications, 2018

·       Operator-based Reset Control for Nonlinear System with Unknown Disturbance
M. Li, M. Deng
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, 2018

·       Operator-based Robust Nonlinear Control of an Uncertain Wireless Power Transfer System Using Sliding Mode Technology
X. Gao, M. Deng
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 2018

·       Operator-Based Robust Nonlinear Free Vibration Control of a Flexible Plate with Unknown Input Nonlinearity
G. Jin, M. Deng
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2020

·       Robust fault tolerant tracking control for the multi-joint manipulator based on operator theory
N. Bu, J. Pang, and M. Deng
Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2020

·       Operator-Based Nonlinear Control of Calorimetric System Actuated by Peltier Device
R. Chikaraishi, M. Deng
Machines, 2021

·       Robust nonlinear control integrated operator theory and sliding mode technology for a system considering the change of thermal conductivity
M. Deng, A. Yamakita
IMechE, Part I: Journal of Sys. and Control Eng., 2021

·       Experimental Study on Support Vector Machine-Based Early Detection for Sensor Faults and Operator-Based Robust Fault Tolerant Control
M. Deng, Y. Tanaka, and X. Li
Machines, 2022

·       Nonlinear Intelligent Control of Two Link Robot Arm by Considering Human Voluntary Components
M. Deng, S. Kubota, and Y. Xu
Sensors, 2022

·       Particle Filter Design for Robust Nonlinear Control System of Uncertain Heat Exchange Process with Sensor Noise and Communication Time Delay
Y. Xu, M. Deng
Applied Sciences, 2022

·       Applying an MSVR Method to Forecast a Three-Degree-of-Freedom Soft Actuator for a Nonlinear Position Control System: Simulation and Experiments
T. Usami, M. Deng
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.61-69, 2022

·       Agricultural Robotics and Automation
Eldert J. van Henten, Amy Tabb, John Billingsley, Marija Popovic, Mingcong Deng, and John Reid
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp.145-147, 2022

·       Non-linear forced vibration control for a vertical wing-plate with sustainable perturbation by using internal model control mechanism
G. Jin, M. Deng
International Journal of Control, Vol. 96, No. 6, 2023

·       Operator-Based Nonlinear Adaptive Control for Calorimetric Power Loss Measurement System Using Peltier Element
K. Mitsugi, R. Chikaraishi, M. Deng, Y. Noge
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2023

·       Robust control for hysteretic Micro-hand actuator using robust right coprime factorization(accepted)
N. Bu, Y. Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Morohoshi, M. Deng
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 69, No. 6, 2024

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