Applied
Control Research Laboratory
&
Advanced Engineering Research Laboratory
http://academic.csuohio.edu/aerl
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fenn College of Engineering
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Tel: 216-687-3528 Email: z.gao@csuohio.edu
Mission: To establish a strong, interdisciplinary, research
and development base for industrial control. To help local business to achieve
and maintain the state of art control technology. To provide problem solving
expertise in process control, motion control, medical electronics, distributed
control systems, etc. To maintain a
hands-on learning environment for students to develop and apply new technologies
to solve real-world problems.
Director: Zhiqiang Gao,
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Senior
Research Scientist: Jack R. Zeller
Research
Assistants:
Industry Partners:
Areas of Expertise:
·
Advanced
nonlinear control algorithm development:
Nonlinear
PID, active disturbance rejection, self-tuning control, system identification,
fuzzy logic, adaptive control, robust control, distributed control systems;
·
Hardware
in the loop simulation and rapid prototyping: electronic design, circuit layout,
in-circuit emulation, enclosure, testing;
·
Development
of digital control at all levels:
PC
based process control system
DSP
board (customer design and out-of-shelf) based system
Microcontroller/DSP
chip based systems using: Intel 8096, Intel 80196, Motorola HC11E9, Motorola
HC12A4, TI320 series;
·
Intelligent
signal processing;
·
Real-time
Fault Diagnosis/Identification.
Industrial Control Projects Conducted:
·
Self-Tuning
Web Tension Regulation
·
Advanced
Industrial Temperature Control
·
Automated
Screw Fastening for a Assembly Line
·
Pressure
Control for a Medical Electronics Application
·
High
Speed Motion Control In a Manufacturing Process
·
On-line
Motor Vibration Analysis In a Manufacturing Process
·
Applications
of Fuzzy Logic Control
·
Nonlinear
digital control applications in space power electronics
About the Director: Dr. Gao joined the Fenn College of Engineering in 1990, upon graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. The driving force behind his work is to bridge the gap between control research and the engineering practice and make research relevant to industrial applications, which lead to the establishment of the Applied Control Research Lab in 1995 and the Advanced Engineering Research Lab in 1999. Dr. Gao was the author or co-author of many journal and conference publications, encompassing areas such as linear systems, robust stability, system identification, fuzzy logic control, real-time self-tuning, fault-tolerant control system, manufacturing system, etc. He was also invited to give seminars, workshops, and training courses on various topics related to advances in control technology at the ISA Meetings, NASA Glenn Research Center, AlliedSignal, Energizer, Allen-Bradley, Bailey Control, Ohio Aerospace Institute, University of Akron, etc.
Recent
Publications (2000-2001)
All of papers below are in Adobe PDF format
“Nonlinear Digital Control Implementation for a DC-DC Power Converter”, Jack Zeller, Minshao Zhu, Tom Stimac, and Zhiqiang Gao. 36th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, July 29-August 2, 2001.
“An Alternative Paradigm for
Control System Design”, Zhiqiang Gao and Yi Huang, To be presented at
the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
“A Novel Motion Control Design
Approach Based on Active Disturbance Rejection”, Zhiqiang Gao, Shaohua
Hu, and Fangjun Jiang. To be presented at the 2001 IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control.
“Active Disturbance Rejection
Control for Web Tension Regulation”, Yi Hou, Zhiqiang Gao, Fangjun
Jiang, and Brian T. Boulter. To be presented at the 2001 IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control.
“An Application of Nonlinear PID
Control to a Class of Truck ABS Problems”, Fangjun Jiang and Zhiqiang
Gao. To be presented at the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
“From Linear to
Nonlinear Control Means: A Practical Progression”, Presented at the
ISA Emerging Technology Conference, September 12, 2001; To appear in ISA
Transactions.
“Design and
Implementation of a Digital Controller for DC-DC Power Converters”,
John Sustersic, Zhiqiang Gao, John R. Zeller, and Robert Button, SAE Power
System Conference, Oct. 2000.
"Fuzzy
Logic Control of an Industrial Indexing Motion Application",
Wilfred Nonnenmacher and Zhiqiang Gao,
Presented at the ISA Conference, September 10-13, 2001.
“A Novel PID Controller for
Pneumatic Proportional Valves with Hysteresis”,
Majed (Marv) Hamdan, and Zhiqiang Gao,
IEEE Industrial Application Society 2000 Annual Meeting and World Conference
on Industrial Applications of Electrical Energy, Oct. 8-12, 2000.
“A Novel Self-Tuning
Control Design Approach for Industrial Applications”, Richard J.
Eucker and Zhiqiang Gao, IEEE Industrial Application Society 2000 Annual
Meeting and World Conference on Industrial Applications of Electrical
Energy, Oct. 8-12, 2000.
“A Stable Self-Tuning
Fuzzy Logic Control System for Industrial Temperature Control Problems”,
Zhiqiang Gao, Thomas A. Trautzsch, and James Dawson, IEEE Industrial
Application Society 2000 Annual Meeting and World Conference on Industrial
Applications of Electrical Energy, Oct. 8-12, 2000; Accepted for publication
in IEEE IAS Transactions.
“Book Review: Fuzzy Control by K. Passino and S. Yurkovich”, Zhiqiang Gao, IEEE Transaction On Automatic Control, Vol 45, NO. 10, October 2000.
“An Adaptive Nonlinear Filter Approach to Vehicle Velocity Estimation for ABS”, Fangjun Jiang and Zhiqiang Gao, Proceedings of 2000 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp.490-495, Anchorage, September 25-27, 2000.
“Model Based Diagnosis of Chaotic Vibration Signals”, I. Wattar, W. Hafez, and Z. Gao, IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference, San Jose, California, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, 1999.
Doctoral Dissertation and M.S. Thesis Complete at ACRL and AERL
Doctor of Engineering
· “Novel Control Approaches For Web Tension Regulation” Yi Hou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, July 2001.
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“On High Performance Servo Control Solutions for Hard Disk Drive”, Shaohua Hu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State
University, April 27, 2001.
·
“A Novel Feedback Control Approach to a Class of Anti-Lock Brake
Problems”, Fangjun Jiang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cleveland State University, May 1, 2000.
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“A Model Based Approach to Vibration Analysis and Diagnosis”, Ihab
Wattar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State
University, April 24, 2000.
M.S.E.E.
·
“System Identification from
Frequency Response Using Matrix Interpolation Theory”, Razvan V. Savescu,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, Oct. 1992.
·
“Linear Model Following Design
Approach and Stability Robustness in Reconfigurable Control Systems”, Nitin
Dhayagude, Department of Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University,
August 1993.
·
“A Computer Algorithm for
Multi-input multi-output system identification Using Chebychev Polynomials”,
Bruce Tabachnik, Department of Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State
University, May 1994.
·
“Fuzzy Logic Control of Linear
Systems with Variable Time Delay”, James G. Dawson, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Cleveland State University, June 1994.
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“Matrix Interpolation Based
Self-Tuning Web Tension Regulation”, Brian Boulter, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Cleveland State University, October 1995.
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“Self-Tuning Temperature Control
Using Fuzzy Logic”, Thomas A. Trautzsch, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Cleveland State University, June 1996.
·
“A New Method of Designing
Automated Tape Wrapping”, Seung Lee, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Cleveland State University, December 1996.
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“A Microcontroller Based General
Purpose Control System Development Platform”, Jianming Zhao, , Department of
Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, March 1997.
·
“Modified PID Control of
Pneumatic Valves with Hysteresis”, Majed M. Hamdan, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Cleveland State University, April 1997.
·
“Fuzzy Logic Position Control of
a Servo Motor”, Wilfred Nonnenmacher, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Cleveland State University, April 1997.
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"Fuzzy Logic Positional Servo
Motor Control Development Platform", David J. Elliott, Department of
Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, June 1997.
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"Optimizing Servo Motor
Selection for Rapid Incremental Motion Applications", Tianli Liu,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, September
1997.
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“Self-Tuning Control Systems
Using Matrix Interpolation”, Richard J. Eucker, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, December 17, 1998.
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“A Novel Design Approach and
Software Implementation for Servo Systems”, Chunming Yang, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, December 17,
1998.
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“A Practical Design Approach for
Micro-Controller Based Control Systems”, Weiping Zou, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, December, 1999
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“Digital Control of a 1-KW DC-DC Switching Power Converter”, Tomislav J.
Stimac, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, December, 2000.