Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science
Peking University
Beijing, 100871
P.R. China
Tel: (010) 62757946
Fax: (010) 62751017
WWW page: http://www.mech.pku.edu.cn/~yongwang Email: yongwang AT mech.pku.edu.cn
Education
B.S., M.S., Department of Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
Experience
Visiting Student, Gas Turbine
Laboratory,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, U.S.A. (July, 1998 -- June, 1999)
Visiting Research Associate, Division
of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island, U.S.A. (August, 2000 -- July, 2001)
Research Fellow, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Faculty, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking
University, Beijing, China (January, 2003 -- Now)
Research Interests
My research interests include control of nonlinear dynamical
systems with applications to fluid flows and flight control, modeling
and analysis of real-time control software systems, and modeling of
hybrid control systems
Selected Publications
Journal Papers and Book Sections
Y. Wang, G. Haller, A. Banaszuk, and G. Tadmor
``Closed-Loop Lagrangian Separation Control in
a Bluff Body Shear Flow Model'', Physics of Fluids,15(8),
2251-2266, 2003
S. Mitra, Y. Wang, N. Lynch, and E. Feron
``Safety Verification of Pitch Controller for
Model Helicopter'', Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control,
2003
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Bifurcation Control of Rotating Stall with Actuator
Magnitude and Rate Limits: Part I -- Model Reduction and Qualitative
Dynamics'',
Automatica,38, 597-610, 2002
Y. Wang S. Yeung, and R. M. Murray
``Bifurcation Control of Rotating Stall with Actuator
Magnitude and Rate Limits: Part II -- Control Synthesis and Comparison
with Experiments'',
Automatica,38, 611-625, 2002
S. Yeung, Y. Wang, and R. M. Murray
``Actuator Rate Limits Evaluation in Nonlinear Control of
Rotating Stall Using Axisymmetric Bleed Valve and Air Injection'',
AIAA Journal of Propulsion for Power, 16(5), 781-791,
2000
Y. Wang and N.-C. Yu
``On Robust Stability of a Class of Polynomial Families'',
Applied Mathematics and Mechanics,, 14(12), 1095-1102,
1993.
Conference Papers
G. Haller, Y. Wang, H. Salman, J. Hesthaven, and A. Banaszuk
``Control of Lagrangian Coherent
Structures'', IUTAM Symposium "Unsteady Separated Flows,
Toulouse, France, 2002
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``A Geometric Perspective on Bifurcation Control'',
Proceedings of 2000 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
1613-1618, 2002
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Bifurcation Control in Systems Governed by Functional
Differential Equations'',
Proceedings of 2000 IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, 4409-4414, 2002
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Nonlinear Analysis on the Effects of Magnitude Saturation
for a Combustion Model with Fuel Modulation Actuators'',
Proceedings of 2000
American Control Conference, 2368-2372, 2002
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Feedback Stabilization of Steady-State and Hopf
Bifurcations: the Multi-Input Case'',
Proceedings of 1999 IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, 701-707, 1999
Y. Wang, J. Paduano, and R. M. Murray
``Nonlinear Control Design for Rotating Stall with Magnetic
Bearing Actuators'',
Proceedings of 1999 IEEE Conference on Control
Applications, 730-736, 1999
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Effects of Magnitude Saturation in Control of
Bifurcations'',
Proceedings of the 14th World Congress of IFAC,
Paper No. E-2c-21-6, 545-550, 1999
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Feedback Stabilization of Steady-State and Hopf
Bifurcations'',
Proceedings of 1998 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
2431-2437, 1998
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Effects of the Shape of Compressor Characteristics on
Actuator Requirements for Rotating Stall Control'',
Proceedings of 1998 American
Control Conference, 1996-2001, 1998
Y. Wang and R. M. Murray
``Effects of Noise, Magnitude Saturation, and Rate Limits on
Rotating Stall Control'',
Proceedings of 1997 IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, 4682-4688, 1997