The workshop consists of 9 presenters from the leading research groups in the relevant fields of the above workshop title in North American [Canada (5) and USA (1)] and Europe [France (1), Spain (1) and UK (1)], where 7 presenters are from academia, 1 presenter is from national research laboratory, and 1 presenters are from industry. Most of presenters have worked on the relevant areas for a long time and made significant contributions in the field, which are evidenced by several first books published in the relevant areas worldwide as can be seen at the end of the proposal, as well as many research publications which can be found from the webpage of each presenter.

- Youmin Zhang (Concordia University, Canada) - brief CV

 

Brief biographies of Presenters:

Youmin ZHANG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) at Concordia University, Canada. His main research interests and experience are in the areas of condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant (flight) control systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/ground vehicles; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and control; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis and health management of safety-critical systems and manufacturing processes. He has published 4 books, over 200 journal and conference papers. He is a senior member of AIAA, senior member of IEEE, a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, and a member of the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Program Committee (PC) on Unmanned Systems. He is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals and IPC member of many international conferences.

Camille-Alain RABBATH holds an adjunct professorship position at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His current research interests are in real-time control and distributed modeling and simulations, nonlinear sampled-data control, guidance, and multi-vehicle cooperative decision and control. He is Associate Editor for the journals IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, and Control Engineering Practice. He is co-author of the book "Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems". He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of AIAA and OIQ.

YangQuan CHEN received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from the University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, China, in 1985, the M.S. degree in automatic control from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in advanced control and instrumentation from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor of electrical engineering at Utah State University, Logan, and the Director of the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems.

Christopher EDWARDS is a Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester. He graduated from Warwick University in 1987 with first class honor in Mathematics and was appointed as a Lecturer in Control Engineering at Leicester in 1996, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004, Reader in 2008 and awarded a personal chair in 2010. He has an international reputation for his work on advanced fault-tolerant control, with particular application to aerospace systems. He is the author of over 240 refereed papers, 14 chapter contributions to edited monographs and three books: "Sliding mode control: theory and applications" (1998), "Fault tolerant flight control: a benchmark challenge" (2010), and "Fault detection and fault tolerant control using sliding modes" (2011).

Cameron FULFORD received his B.A.Sc. degree with honours in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005 and his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with the Systems Control Group at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2007. His research studies included nonlinear control and system identification of a 5-DOF magnetically levitated positioning device. He is currently the Engineering Manager of the Systems and Control Group at Quanser Consulting Inc. in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Cameron is the lead engineer for the development of Quanser’s Unmanned Vehicle Systems Lab and related technologies. Cameron’s interests include the development of educational unmanned vehicle platforms, multi-vehicle control, sensor integration, and the development of rapid controls prototyping hardware and software.

Hugh H.T. LIU is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), Toronto, Canada, where he also serves as the Associate Director, Graduate Studies. His research work over the past several years has included a number of aircraft systems and control related areas, and he leads the Flight Systems and Control (FSC) Research Laboratory. Dr. Liu is an internationally leading researcher in the area of aircraft systems and control. He has published over 100 technical papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and he has received one US/Canada patent of his work on motion synchronization. Dr. Liu has made significant research contributions in autonomous unmanned systems development, cooperative control, and integrated modeling and simulation. He also serves on editorial boards and technical committees of international professional societies. Before his academic appointment, Dr. Liu has several years� industrial experience where he participated and led development projects of aircraft environmental control systems. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering of the University of Toronto in 1998. He is an active member of IEEE, AIAA, CASI, and Fellow of CSME. Dr. Liu is also a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario.

Vicenc PUIG is a Professor and Head of the Advanced Control Systems Group at Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain) since 2001. Prof. Puig got the Engineering in Telecommunications at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 1993 and the PhD degree at the same University in the Automatic Control Department in the PhD Programme in Automatic Control, Vision and Robotics in 1999. The research interests of SAC and Prof. Vicen� Puig cover several fields of advanced control systems, such as model identification, predictive control and supervision of complex systems. In particular, he has important scientific contributions in areas of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control His recent scientific production is very active, he has published than 60 articles in international journals and more than 300 papers in international conferences.

Didier THEILLIOL was respectively an Associate Professor and Full Professor in Research Center of Automatic Control of Nancy at University of Lorraine where he co-ordinates and leads national, european and international research and development projects in steel industries, wastewater treatment plant, or aerospace domain. His current research interests include model-based fault diagnosis method synthesis and active fault-tolerant control system design for linear time invariant, linear parameter varying, multi-linear systems and also reliability analysis. He published over 200 journal/conference papers and is co-author of a new book untitled Fault-tolerant Control Systems: Design and Practical Applications (Springer 2009). This book highlights the main contribution of Didier Theilliol on new fault-tolerant control strategy design where fault compensation principle is synthesized without to completely redesign a controller. Didier Theilliol is one of the first researchers to integrate reliability analysis in fault-tolerant control system design and to develop software to solve some crucial problem in wastewater treatment plant and recently for unmanned aerial vehicle. From technology point of view, he develops a novel method to consider fault detection based on energy concept rather to the traditional model-based (Best Award Paper ISA transactions 2006). Since 2006, with other European researchers he creates European Advanced Control and Diagnosis working group to explore research opportunities in the direction of Fault Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control for technical systems. Within this working group, the members co-operate in different ways, one important one are joint European projects and to initiate more projects, especially in co-operation with industry. Didier Theilliol is a leader chair of a novel Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (co-sponsored IEEE CSS) dedicated to review the current activities in the field of Advanced Control and Diagnosis and their implication in Maintenance (Nice, 2010, and 2013). He is an associate editors of ISA Transactions and Unmanned Systems Journals. Its main contributions in academy and technology are illustrated through its official position as expert in various committee (Academic of Finland, ArcelorMittal European Committee, IFAC Technical Committee 6.2., , PhD Jury Spain, Australia, Canada, Mexico, French Research National Agency)

Khashayar KHORASANI received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, 1982 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1988 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan at Dearborn and since 1988. He has been at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he is currently a Professor and Concordia University Tier I Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has authored/co-authored over 350 publications. His main areas of research are in nonlinear and adaptive control, intelligent and autonomous control of networked unmanned systems, fault diagnosis, isolation and recovery (FDIR), diagnosis, prognosis, and health management (DPHM), satellites, unmanned vehicles, neural network applications to pattern recognition, robotics and control, adaptive structure neural networks, and modeling and control of flexible link/joint manipulators.