Dr. Zhijie Liu received the BS degree from China University of Mining and Technology Beijing, Beijing in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree from Beihang University, Beijing in 2019. In 2017, he was a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, for twelve months. He is currently a Professor in the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering (SAEE) and Institute of Artificial Intelligence at University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). He has published more than 30 SCI journal papers in international famous journals with over 500 citations on Google Scholar, among which 5 papers have been cited by ESI, and 3 invention patents have been granted, presided over 2 the Fundamental Research Funds for the China Central Universities of USTB and participated in a number of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has won the first prize of Wu Wen-Jun AI Science and Technology Award, Best Paper Award Runner Up of ICIUS 2019, and Young Author Award of IEEE SMC Beijing Capital Region Chapter in 2019. He is a member of IEEE SMC Autonomous Bionic Flight Robot Committee, a member of Youth Working Committee of Chinese Association of Automation, and a member of the Unmanned Systems Professional Committee of the Chinese Command and Control Society. His research interests include flexible structures and distributed parameter systems. 

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Jun. 2019~Ph.D in Control Theory and Control Engineering

Beihang University(Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Beijing, China

Jun. 2014~B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation 

China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China

Jul. 22-today~Professor

University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

Jul. 2019-Jul. 2022~Associate Professor

University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

Sep. 2017-Sep. 2018 Research Assistant

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA

• Boundary Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

• Modelling and Control of Flexible Mechanical systems

• Soft Robots

• Intelligent Control

2019~First Prize of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award (Wei He, Changyin Sun, Zhijun Li, and Zhijie Liu)

2019~IEEE SMC Beijing Capital Region Chapter Young Author Prize

2019~Best Conference Paper Award Finalist, The 15th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ICIUS 2019)

2017~National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Ministry of Education, China

2017~Excellence Foundation of BUAA for Ph.D. Students, Beihang University, China

2014~Outstanding Graduates, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, China

• Youth Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Engineering

• Early Career Advisory Board Member of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JCR Q1)

• Member of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)

• Member of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Autonomous Bionic Robotic Aircrafts

• Member of the IFAC TC 2.6 on Distributed Parameter Systems

• Organizing Committee Chair of  the  15th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ICIUS 2019)

• Secretary of the 35th Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC 2020)

• Peer-reviewer of scientific journals: Automatica, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics...

*corresponding author

Journal Papers

[1] Zhijie Liu, Jinyuan Liang, Zhijia Zhao*, Mehmet Önder Efe and Keum-Shik Hong, Adaptive fault-tolerant control of a probe-and-drogue refueling hose under varying length and constrained output, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2021, to be published, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2021.3079275.

[2] Zhijie Liu, Zhiji Han and Wei He*, Adaptive fault-tolerant boundary control of an autonomous aerial refueling hose system with prescribed constraints, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2021, to be published, DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2021.3070140.

[3] Zhijie Liu; Xiuyu He; Zhijia Zhao*; Choon Ki Ahn*; Han-Xiong Li; Vibration control for spatial aerial refueling hoses with bounded actuators, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2984442.

[4] Zhijie Liu; Zhiji Han; Zhijia Zhao; Wei He*, Modeling and adaptive control for a spatial flexible spacecraft with unknown actuator failures, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2020, to be published, DOI: 10.1007/s11432-020-3109-x.

[5] Zhijie Liu; Jinkun Liu*; Wei He; Robust adaptive fault tolerant control for a linear cascaded ODE-beam system, Automatica, 2018, 98: 42-50.

[6] Zhijie Liu*; Jinkun Liu; Wei He; Modeling and vibration control of a flexible aerial refueling hose with variable lengths and input constraint, Automatica, 2017, 77: 302-310.

[7] Zhijie Liu; Zhijia Zhao*; Choon Ki Ahn*, "Boundary Constrained Control of Flexible String Systems Subject to Disturbances," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 67(1): 112-116, 2020.

[8] Zhijia Zhao, Zhijie Liu*, Wei He, Keum-Shik Hong, Han-Xiong Li, Boundary adaptive fault-tolerant control for a flexible Timoshenko arm with backlash-like hysteresis, Automatica, 2021, 130: 109690.

[9] Jiali Feng, Zhijie Liu*, Xiuyu He, Qiang Fu and Guang Li, Adaptive vibration control for an active mass damper of a high-rise building, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2020, to be published,  DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2020.3036891.

[10] Xuena Zhao, Shuang Zhang, Zhijie Liu*, Qing Li, Vibration control for flexible manipulators with event-triggering mechanism and actuator failures, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020, to be published, DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2020.3041727.

[11] Zhao, Zhijia, and Zhijie Liu*. Finite-time convergence disturbance rejection control for a flexible Timoshenko manipulator. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 8(1): 157-168, 2020.

[12] Yongliang Yang; Zhijie Liu*; Qing Li;Donald C. Wunsch, Output constrained adaptive controller design for nonlinear saturation systems, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2020, to be published, DOI:10.1109/JAS.2020.1003524.

[13] Shuang Zhang, Xuena Zhao, Zhijie Liu*, Qing Li, Boundary torque control of a flexible two-link manipulator and its experimental investigation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2020, to be published, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2020.3013742.

[14]  刘志杰, 宋丛丛, 梁金源, 李擎, 贺威. 空中加油机加油软管系统建模和控制研究进展. 工程科学学报. DOI: 10.13374/j.issn2095-9389.2020.05.12.002

[15]  刘志杰, 欧阳云呈, 宋宇骅, 贺威, 王飞跃. 分布参数系统的平行控制: 从基于模型的控制到数据驱动的智能控制. 指挥与控制学报, 3(3), 177-185, 2017.

Conference Papers

[1] Jiangtao Han, Zhijie Liu, Wei He, Adaptive neural network control for a soft robotic manipulator, 7th International Conference on Information, Cybernetics, and Computational Social Systems (ICCSS), 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICCSS52145.2020.9336817.

[2] Jiangtao Han, Zhiji Han, Zhijie Liu, Adaptive Control for a Constrained Soft Manipulator with Prescribed Performance, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020, 53: 524-529.

[3] Yun Fu, Zhijia Zhao, Zhijie Liu, Attitude control of flexible anti-symmetric satellite with restricted tracking error, 2020 35th Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC), 2020, 248-252, DOI: 10.1109/YAC51587.2020.9337507.

[4] Zhijie Liu; Jinkun Liu, We He, Deadzone compensation based boundary control of a flexible aerial refueling hose with output constraint. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1):645-650,2017. 

Book Chapters

[1] Zhijie Liu; Jinkun Liu. PDE Modeling and Boundary Control for Flexible Mechanical Systems. Tsinghua & Springer Press，2020.

[2] 刘金琨,刘志杰. 基于LMI的控制系统设计、分析及Matlab仿真. 清华大学出版社，2020.

1. PI, “Control and Optimization Design of a Flexible Dual-arm Robot System with Multiple Constraints”, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62073030, 580,000 RMB, January 2021 to December 2024.

2. PI, “Research on the theory and method of non-deterministic manufacturing big data for flexible systems”, supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2019YFB1703604-1, 200,000 RMB, January 2020 to December 2022.

3. PI, “Modeling and intelligent switching control for flexible aerial refueling hose system”, supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant FRF-IDRY-19-024, 100,000 RMB, January 2020 to December 2021.

4. PI, “Adaptive boundary control of parallel flexible manipulator with physical constraints”, supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2019M660463, 80,000 RMB, July 2019 to July 2021.

5. PI, “Modeling and boundary control of parallel flexible manipulator system”, supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant FRF-TP-19-001B2, 400,000 RMB, July 2019 to July 2020.