Dr. Qing Hui
Contact Information
Dr. Qing Hui
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1021
Tel: (806)742-3563 x 238
Fax: (806)742-3540
Email: qing.hui@ttu.edu
Link to Control Science and Engineering Lab (CSEL)
Education
- Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2008
- M.S., Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2005
- M.E., Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2002
- B.E., Aerospace Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, 1999
Professional Experiences
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 08/2008-present
- Graduate Research Assistant, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 08/2002-08/2008
- Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, State Key Lab for Automotive Safety and Energy, Department of Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 09/1999-06/2002
Research Interests
- Coordinated control and decentralized control of large-scale networked systems
- Modeling, analysis, control, and optimization design for detection systems and energy systems
- Hybrid control, dynamic safety verification, and optimization of electric power grids
- Control of spatially distributed systems using stability and geometric theory
- Network security and cloud computing control based on hybrid and adaptive approaches
Courses Offered
- ME 4334 Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2012)
- MATH/ME 5312 Control Theory I (Fall 2010)
- MATH/ME 5313 Control Theory II (Spring 2011)
- ME 5311 Advanced Dynamics (Fall 2011)
Professional Membership
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Professional Activities
- Program Committee, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- Program Committee, 2011 American Control Conference
Publications
Books
- W. M. Haddad, V. Chellaboina, and Q. Hui, Nonnegative and Compartmental Dynamical Systems, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010
Journal Papers (Selected publications done at TTU)
- Q. Hui, "Semistability of Nonlinear Systems Having a Connected Set of Equilibria and Time-Delays," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear.
- Q. Hui, "Distributed Semistable LQR Control for Discrete-Time Dynamically Coupled Systems," Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 349, no. 1, pp. 74-92, 2012
- Q. Hui, "Optimal Distributed Linear Averaging," Automatica, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 2713-2719, 2011
- Q. Hui, "Quantized Near-Consensus via Quantized Communication Links," International Journal of Control, vol. 84, no. 5, pp. 931-946, 2011
- Q. Hui, "Optimal Semistable Control for Continuous-Time Linear Systems," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 278-284, 2011
- Q. Hui, "Semistability and Robustness Analysis for Switched Systems," European Journal of Control, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 73-88, 2011
- Q. Hui, "Finite-Time Rendezvous Algorithms for Mobile Autonomous Agents," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 207-211, 2011
- Q. Hui, "Hybrid Consensus Protocols: An Impulsive Dynamical System Approach," International Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 1107-1116, 2010
- Q. Hui, W. M. Haddad, and S. P. Bhat, "Semistability, Finite-Time Stability, Differential Inclusions, and Discontinuous Dynamical Systems Having a Continuum of Equilibria," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 2465-2470, 2009
Conference Papers (2012)
- Q. Hui, “A Semistability-Based Design Framework for Optimal Consensus Seeking of Multiagent Systems in a Noisy Environment,” 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
Theses and Technical Reports
- Q. Hui, "Nonlinear dynamical systems and control for large-scale, hybrid, and network systems," Ph.D. dissertation, Sch. Aero. Engr., Georgia Inst. Technol., Atlanta, GA, 2008
- Q. Hui, "Thermodynamic stabilization via energy dissipating hybrid controllers," M.S. thesis, Sch. Math., Georgia Inst. Technol., Atlanta, GA, 2005
- Q. Hui, "Finite-time rendezvous algorithms for mobile autonomous agents," Contr. Sci. Engr. Lab, Dept. Mech. Engr., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, Tech. Rep. CSEL-02-09, Feb. 2009
- Q. Hui, "Stabilization of multimachine power systems via hybrid control," Contr. Sci. Engr. Lab, Dept. Mech. Engr., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, Tech. Rep. CSEL-04-09, Apr. 2009
- Q. Hui, "On the stability and robustness of switched systems," Contr. Sci. Engr. Lab., Dept. Mech. Engr., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, Tech. Rep. CSEL-11-09, Nov. 2009
- Q. Hui, "Semistability of nonlinear systems having a continuum of equilibria and time-varying delays," Contr. Sci. Engr. Lab., Dept. Mech. Engr., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, Tech. Rep. CSEL-01-10, Jan. 2010