Control System

Kun Zhang

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SUMMARY

. Creative R&D professional with focus on embedded control system

development including extensive experience in motor control, power

converters, robotics and active aeroelastic system.

. Highly proficient in C, Matlab/Simulink with a large toolbox of more

specialized languages as needed. A results-oriented person works well

independently or on a team;

SKILL SET

. PhD in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in adaptive and robust

control research ;

. Proficiency in Matlab Simulink for system modeling, analysis,

identification and control development;

. Embedded C/C++ programming for real-time embedded control systems

design and signal processing;

. Knowledge of rapid prototyping for embedded system development using

Auto-code generation tools, such as Simulink Embedded coder;

. Experience of various programming languages, such as Python, C#, C++,

etc.;

. Experience with various microcontrollers programming, such as TI

TMS320F, ARM STM32F, etc. ;

. Experience with motor control design, including field oriented control

(FOC) and sensorless control design with sliding mode observer;

. Experience with control design for 3-phase DC/AC power converter for a

photovoltaic system;

. Experience with developing & deploying servo-motor control system for

diesel engine manufacturing;

. Experience with data acquisition system development for diesel engine

fault diagnosis.

EDUCATION

Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando,

FL, USA, 09/2011-04/2015

Dissertation: Lyapunov-based Robust and Adaptive Control Design for

Nonlinear Uncertain Systems.

M. S. in Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Sci.&Tech.,

Wuhan, China, 09/2008-03/2011

Thesis: Diesel Engine Modeling and Analysis for Cold Test and Fault

Diagnosis.

B. S. in Automation, Wuhan Univ. of Tech., Wuhan, China, 09/2003-06/2007

PROJECTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, U.S.

Adaptive and Robust Control design for Airfoil Vibration Suppression

03/2012-Present

. The goal is to design novel adaptive and robust control strategies for

single-input-single-output(SISO) or multiply-input-multiply-

output(MIMO) systems operating in different conditions;

. Designed adaptive controllers for MIMO aeroelastic systems with

unknown parameters;

. Designed output feedback sliding mode based continuous robust

controllers for aeroelastic systems with uncertainties ; Estimated

unmeasurable states by using filter compensation;

. Implement and verified those control algorithms in Matlab/Simulink.

Controller Design and Modeling for Three Phase Grid Tied Photovoltaic

System 06/2013-09/2013

. The controller was designed to synchronize the solar panel output to

power grid for energy harvesting;

. Built the small signal model for a 400 watt prototype DC-AC inverter

for a photovoltaic system;

. Implemented the simulation model and of 3-phase DC/AC grid-connected

converter in Matlab/Simulink;

. Implemented the control algorithms by microcontrollers with dsPIC33F

and ARM Cortex-M3 STM32F and ensured the peak efficiency of the

prototype to be 96%, the results were published on a journal paper.

Sensorless Field-Oriented Control Design for Permanent Magnet Synchronous

Machine 01/2013-05/ 2013

. Developed an electric drive for permanent magnet synchronous machine

for torque and speed control;

. Built PMSM motor model and dual-loop control algorithm with SVPWM in

Matlab/Simulink;

. Designed the Field-Oriented control with a sliding mode estimator for

Sensorless control;

. Implemented the control algorithm with TI TMS320F28207 on C2000

platform with a TI BOOSTXL-DRV8301 and generate part of C code with

Simulink code generation tools (Embedded coder).

2.5D Visual Serving Robot Manipulator Modeling and Controller Design

09/2012-12/ 2012

. Developed a tracking strategy for PUMA robot manipulator with vision

feedback signals;

. Built the PUMA robot manipulator model and robot vision model in

Matlab/Simulink;

. Regulated the 3D position and orientation of a camera held by the end-

effector of the robot manipulator to a desired position and

orientation;

. Implemented an adaptive control strategy for the joint torque control

input for dynamical trajectory tracking in Matlab/Simulink.

Huazhang University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Image Processing based Error-proofing System for Diesel Engine Components

Detection 12/2009-09/2010

. The system was developed to count the installed diesel engine

components from sampled image to prevent worker forgetting installing

necessary components;

. Implemented the system in Visual Studio 6.0 with C++ using Microsoft

Foundation Class (MFC);

. Segmented engine components from background; Identified the engine

components and count the number of the installed components with over

95% accuracy.

Dongfeng Cummins Engine Co., Ltd, Xiangfan, Hubei, China

Diesel Engine Valve Clearance Adjustment System

03/2009-02/2010

. This system was design to aid the worker adjust the valve clearance

during diesel engine assembling;

. Designed PLC software on Siemens S7-200 and 611u control module for

servomotor control;

. Installed the equipment in the factory of Dongfeng Cummins Engine

Company, Xiangfan, Hubei, China;

. Guaranteed over one year trouble-free operation and it is still

running on the assembly line.

Human Machine Interface based Data Acquisition and fault System for Diesel

Engine Test 11/2009-02/2010

. Built data collection system for acquiring real time diesel engine

torque data during cold test;

. Implemented the system with KingView(a Chinese SCADA software), PC-

Access and Access Database;

. Fulfilled data analysis system with C#&Access Database in Visual

Studio 2005 for fault diagnosis.

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATION

. K. Zhang and A. Behal, "Continuous Robust Control for Aeroelastic

Vibration Control of a 2D Airfoil under Unsteady Flow", Journal of

Vibration and Control, Available online, Oct 2014.

. K. Zhang, A. Behal, and P. Marzocca, "Adaptive Aeroelastic Control

for a Nonlinear Wing Section with Multiple Flaps under Unsteady

Flow", Journal of Vibration and Control, Accepted Aug 2014

. L. Chen, C. Hu, Q. Zhang, K. Zhang, and I. Batarseh "Modeling and

Triple-loop Control of Three-phase Four-wire ZVS Grid-connected

Inverter for Two-stage Micro-inverter Application," IEEE Transactions

on Power Electronics, May 2014.

. K. Zhang, Z. Wang, P. Marzocca, and A. Behal, "A Novel Adaptive

Controller for Aeroelastic Vibration Control of a 2D Airfoil under

Unsteady Flow," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 36,

No. 6 : pp. 1681-1694, November, 2013.

. K. Zhang, Z. Wang, A. Behal, and P. Marzocca, "A Continuous Robust

Control Strategy for the Active Aeroelastic Vibration Suppression of

Supersonic Lifting Surfaces, " International Journal of Aeronautical

and Space Science, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 210-220, June 2012[pic]

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