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Profiles
Dr Jian Wan
Lecturer in Control Systems Engineering
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
Biography
Lecturer in Control Systems Engineering
Member of Autonomous Marine Systems (AMS) Research Group
Qualifications
PhD (Summa cum Laude) Information Technology, Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Automatic Control, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
MSc Control Engineering, School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
BEng Manufacturing Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Background:
Research Associate (June 2014 - Dec 2014) Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK for an EU FP7 research project on multiple sensor devices for food production
Research Fellow (Nov 2012 - May 2014) Dynamics and Control Research Group, Department of Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland for an Enterprise Ireland/IDA Competence Centre research project on virtual metrology enabled control for semiconductor manufacturing
Research Associate (Nov 2009 - Oct 2012) Control Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK for an EPSRC research project on batch process monitoring and control
Research Assistant (Oct 2006 - May 2009) The School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK for an EPSRC research project on measurement, modelling and control of crystallisation processes
Research Assistant (July 2001 - Jan 2003) Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for a research project on integrated design and control of a closed-chain manipulator
Professional membership
Member, IEEE
Fellow, The Higher Education Academy
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
PRRO203 Mechatronics System Design Project (Module Leader)
CONT221 Engineering Mathematics and Control (Module Leader)
CONT221 Engineering Mathematics and Control (Module Leader)
MARN340 Marine Systems Engineering
CONT317 Control and Intelligent Systems Design
MECH544 Data Processing, Simulation and Optimisation of Engineering Systems (Module Leader)
MECH554 Introduction to Autonomous Systems
Research
Research
Research interests
- Constrained Optimisation, Estimation and Control
- Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Grants & contracts
SoMSE Small Research Grant 2014-15: £2500
SoE Small Research Grant 2017-18: £2500
Santander Seed-Corn Research Scholarship 2014-15: £5000
Santander Seed-Corn Research Scholarship 2016-17: £5000
Distinguished Visiting Fellowships Royal Academy of Engineering Round 7: £5000
EPSRC First Grant EP/R005532/1 Hybrid Set-theoretic Approaches for Constrained Control and Estimation with Applications to Autonomous Sailing Boats: £90,722
RAEng Frontiers of Engineering for Development Seed Fund 2018: £20,000
University of Plymouth Internal GCRF project 2018-2020: £26,280
Royal Society International Exchanges 2020 Cost Share (NSFC): £10,000
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2019) 'Genetic algorithm-based multiple moving target reaching using a fleet of sailboats' IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Restricted Orientation Dubins Path with Application to Sailboats' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 1-1 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Platooning Control for Sailboats Using a Tack Strategy' International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Platooning Control for Heterogeneous Sailboats Based on Constant Time Headway' IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2078-2089 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Autonomous Vehicular Landings on the Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle using Deep Reinforcement Learning' Robotica 1-16 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Vision-Based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle' Drones , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Guaranteed State Estimation for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems via Indirectly Implemented Polytopic Set Computation' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 4317-4322 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Gaussian Process Regression for Virtual Metrology-enabled Run-to-Run Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing' IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Obstacle Avoidance Approaches for Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles' Journal of Navigation , DOI Open access
(2017) 'A comparative investigation of the combined effects of pre-processing, wavelength selection and regression methods on near infrared calibration model performance' Applied Spectroscopy 71, (7) 1432-1446 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Teleoperation control of Baxter robot using Kalman filter-based sensor fusion' Systems Science & Control Engineering 5, (1) 156-167 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Laboratory Tests in the Development of WaveCat' Sustainability 8, (12) 1339-1339 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Efficient collision-free path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles in dynamic environments with a hybrid optimization algorithm' Ocean Engineering 127, 190-199 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Trajectory tracking of batch product quality using intermittent measurements and moving window estimation' Journal of Process Control 25, (0) 115-128 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Uneven batch data alignment with application to the control of batch end-product quality' ISA Transactions 53, 584 - 590-584 - 590 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2012) 'Faceted growth rate estimation of potash alum crystals grown from solution in a hot-stage reactor' Powder Technology 227, (0) 96-103 , DOI
(2012) 'Disturbance rejection for the control of batch end-product quality using latent variable models' Journal of Process Control 22, (3) 643-652 , DOI
(2011) 'Pharmaceutical Crystal Shape Control based on Online Image Processing and Multi-scale Modelling' International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 12, (1-2) 96-100
(2009) 'A numerical approach to design control invariant sets for constrained nonlinear discrete-time systems with guaranteed optimality' Journal of Global Optimization 44, (3) 395-407 , DOI
(2009) 'Control of constrained nonlinear uncertain discrete-time systems via robust controllable sets: a modal interval analysis approach' ESAIM: COCV 15, 189-204-189-204 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Particle shape manipulation and optimization in cooling crystallization involving multiple crystal morphological forms' AIChE Journal 55, 2049-2061 Publisher Site , DOI
(2008) 'A method for analyzing on-line video images of crystallization at high-solid concentrations' Particuology 6, (1) 9-15 , DOI
(2008) 'Nonlinear Contractive MPC via Polytopic Robust Controllable Sets' Journal of Convex Analysis 15, (4) 905-917
(2002) 'Multidimensional Wavelet Networks Based on a Tensor Product Structure' Journal of Control Theory & Applications 19, (3) 381-386
Conference Papers
(2018) 'Toward End-to-End Control for UAV Autonomous Landing via Deep Reinforcement Learning' 115-123 Open access
(2018) 'The 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems' 6-/-0/20186-/-0/2018Open access
(2018) 'Development and test of an open source autonomous sailing robot with accessibility, generality and extendability' 11-19
(2018) 'Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear ODEs Using Polytopic Based Validated Runge-Kutta' Springer International Publishing 1-14 , DOI
(2017) 'Neural learning and Kalman filtering enhanced teaching by demonstration for a Baxter robot' 2017 23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC) 9-/-0/20179-/-0/2017IEEE , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Towards autonomous landing on a moving vessel through fiducial markers' 2017 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) 9-/-0/20179-/-0/2017IEEE , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Advanced Feature Extraction and Dimensionality Reduction for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Fault Diagnosis' 11th UKACC International Conference on Control Belfast 8-/-0/20169-/-0/2016Danvers IEEE Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2016) 'TOWARD A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR MARINE OBSERVATION' The 19th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2016) London 9-/-0/20169-/-0/2016Open access
(2016) 'Development of Kinect based teleoperation of Nao robot' 2016 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) 8-/-0/20168-/-0/2016IEEE , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Design of a variable buoyancy engine for small scale underwater vehicle' International conference on advances in subsea engineering, structures and systems (ASESS 2016) Glasgow 6-/-0/20166-/-0/2016Glasgow Asranet 100-103 Open access
(2014) 'An adaptive machine learning decision system for flexible predictive maintenance' 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 8-/-0/20148-/-0/2014IEEE , DOI
(2014) 'Insight extraction for semiconductor manufacturing processes' 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 8-/-0/20148-/-0/2014IEEE , DOI
(2014) 'On Regression Methods for Virtual Metrology in Semiconductor Manufacturing' 25th IET Irish Signals & Systems Conference 2014 and 2014 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communities Technologies (ISSC 2014/CIICT 2014) Institution of Engineering and Technology , DOI
(2014) 'Predictive Maintenance for Improved Sustainability — An Ion Beam Etch Endpoint Detection System Use Case' Springer Berlin Heidelberg 147-156 , DOI
(2013) 'A Dynamic Sampling Methodology for Plasma Etch Processes using Gaussian Process Regression'
(2012) 'Trajectory tracking of batch product quality using intermittent measurements and moving window estimation' 2012 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL) 9-/-0/20129-/-0/2012IEEE , DOI
(2012) 'Trajectory tracking of exothermic batch reactor using NIR spectroscopy' 2012 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL) 9-/-0/20129-/-0/2012IEEE , DOI
(2011) 'Trajectory tracking in batch processes using latent variable models' Elsevier BV 14013-14018 , DOI
(2010) 'Control of batch end-product quality using partial least squares-based models' UKACC International Conference on CONTROL 2010 Institution of Engineering and Technology , DOI
(2009) 'Model-based Optimisation and Closed-loop Control of Crystal Shape in Cooling Crystallisation' Elsevier 483-488 , DOI
(2004) 'Local receding horizon control with contractive constraints' 243-247
(2004) 'Predictive motion control of a MiRoSoT mobile robot' 325-330