Welcome!
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The Information & Smart Systems Laboratory (ISSL) is a group of researchers at the University of Kansas working to push the frontiers of information-driven smart systems. The lab performs cutting-edge research on information extraction, analysis and exploitation for dynamic systems to deal with system complexity and enable system intelligence. People of ISSL are committed to pursuing new ideas, perspectives and methods synergistically combining estimation, control, optimization, network systems and machine learning to address fundamental and applied problems arising from diverse practical systems. The past and ongoing work involves optimal estimation, distributed control, advanced battery management, robotics and environmental monitoring. The lab values research in the interest of general society, actively running research-integrated education and outreach events and forging collaboration with local communities and industry partners.
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IECON 2020 Special Session on Emerging Techniques for Grid-Transportation Interfacing towards More Flexible Energy Transition
NewsFebruary 26, 2019: The co-authored paper "Health-aware battery charging via iterative nonlinear optimal control syntheses" will be forthcoming in the 21st IFAC World Congress to be held in Berlin, Germany, 12-17 July 2020. We also organized an Open Invited Track on Emerging Challenges and Directions of Advanced Battery Management at the conference to bring researchers together to discuss the open problems and outlook in this exciting area.
February 17, 2020: The paper first-authored by Ning Tian, "Real-time optimal lithium-ion battery charging based on explicit model predictive control", will be forthcoming in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. Congratulations, Ning!
February 10, 2020: The paper first-authored by Ning Tian, "One-shot parameter identification of an equivalent circuit model for batteries: Methods and validation", will be forthcoming in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations, Ning!
January 31, 2020: Nikhil Biju joined our lab as a master's student researcher. Welcome, Nikhil!
January 27, 2020: Mason Proctor embarked on his journey as a Battery Test Engineer at Spear Power Systems, continuing to pursue his passion for battery systems. Congratulations, Mason!
January 24, 2020: The paper first-authored by Ning Tian, “Nonlinear double-capacitor model for rechargeable batteries: Modeling, identification and validation”, will be forthcoming in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. Congratulations, Ning!
January 21, 2020: Babak Badnava and Hao Tu joined our lab as PhD student researchers. Welcome, Babak and Hao!
January 3, 2020: Huazhen visited Shenzhen University and gave a seminar!
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Recent PublicationsNonlinear double-capacitor model for rechargeable batteries: Modeling, identification and validation
N. Tian, H. Fang, J. Chen and Y. Wang IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2020 One-shot parameter identification of the Thevenin's model for batteries: methods and validation
N. Tian, Y. Wang, J. Chen and H. Fang Journal of Energy Storage, 2020 Robust extended Kalman filtering for systems with measurement outliers
H. Fang, M. A. Haile and Y. Wang A new encounter between leader-follower tracking and observer-based control: Towards enhancing robustness against disturbances
C. Yan and H. Fang Systems & Control Letters, 2019 Distributed energy resources coordination over time-varying directed communication networks
T. Yang, D. Wu, H. Fang, W. Ren, H. Wang, Y. Hong, K. H. Johansson IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2019 Observer-based distributed leader-follower tracking control: A new perspective and results
C. Yan and H. Fang International Journal of Control, 2019 3-D temperature field reconstruction for a lithium-ion battery pack: A distributed Kalman filtering approach
N. Tian, H. Fang and Y. Wang IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2019 Energy-aware leader-follower tracking control for electric-powered multi-agent systems
C. Yan, H. Fang and H. Chao Control Engineering Practice, 2018 Optimal multi-objective charging for lithium-ion battery packs: A hierarchical control approach
Q. Ouyang, J. Chen, J. Zheng and H. Fang IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018 Nonlinear Bayesian estimation: From Kalman filtering to a broader horizon
H. Fang, N. Tian, Y. Wang, M. Zhou and M. A. Haile IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2018 Optimal pulse-modulated lithium-ion battery charging: Algorithms and simulation
H. Fang, C. Depcik and V. Lvovich Journal of Energy Storage, 2018 Optimal cell-to-cell balancing topology design for serially connected lithium-ion battery packs
Q. Ouyang, J. Chen, J. Zheng and H. Fang IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2018 Revisiting the state-of-charge estimation for lithium-ion batteries - A methodical investigation of the EKF approach
Y. Wang, H. Fang, L. Zhou and T. Wada IEEE Control Systems, 2017 (cover article) |
