Invited Presentations

  • Nonlinear Control: Its Past, Present and Future, invited seminar in the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Macau, Macau (July, 2007).
  • Some Open Problems in Nonlinear Control, invited lecture in the School of of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (July, 2007).
  • Nonlinear Control Systems --- An Introduction, invited lecture in the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (June, 2007).
  • Nonsmooth Feedback Control, invited lecture in the College of Automation, Xian University of Technology, Xian, China (June, 2007).
  • Homogeneous Domination and Output Feedback Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems, invited talk in the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (workshop in memoroial of Dayawansa) (April, 2007).
  • Network Congestion Control, invited lecture in the School of of Power Systems and Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (January, 2007).
  • Are Non-Uniformly Observable and Non-Smoothly Stabilizable Systems Controllable?, invited seminar in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, and Control Systems Chapter, IEEE Montreal Section, Montreal, Canada (Decemebr, 2006).
  • Semi-Global Output Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (Sept., 2006).
  • Nonlinear Feedback Control: A Survey, invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (July, 2006).
  • Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (July, 2006).
  • Nonlinear Control Systems: An Introduction, A series of lectures in the Center of Industrial Process and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China (June, 2006).
  • On Control of Nonlinear Systems by Nonsmooth State and Output Feedback,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore(December, 2005).
  • Global Output Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (June, 2005).
  • New Results on Control of Nonlinear Systems by Nonsmooth Output Feedback,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (July, 2005).
  • Semi-Global Output Feedback Stabilization of MIMO Nonlinear Systems,  invited lecture in the Institute of Systems Scieence and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China(July, 2005).
  • Recurisve Observer Design, Homogeneous Approximation, and Output Feedback Control,  invited lecture in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China (July, 2005).
  • Nonlinear Observers, Non-Separation Principle Design, and Output Feedback Stabilization of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The City University of Hong Kong, (May, 2004).
  • Control of Nonlinear Systems: From Smooth to Nonsmooth Feedback, , invited lecture in the Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (April, 2004).
  • Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems without Controllable/Observable Linearization,  invited lecture in Googol Technology Limited, Shenzhen, China (Feb. 2004).
  • Nonsmooth Feedback Design for Nonlinear Systems with Unstabilizable/Undetectable Linearization,  invited lecture in the School of Engineering, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan (Jan. 2004).
  • Nonsmooth Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems: When, Why and How?, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (Jan. 2004).
  • Recent Advances in Global Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems via Smooth Output Feedback,  invited lecture by the IEE of Japan, Tokyo, Japan (Jan. 2004).
  • Homogeneous Observers and Output Feedback Control of High-Order Nonlinear Systems,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Information Science, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan (Jan. 2004).
  • Control of Inherently Nonlinear Systems by Nonsmooth Measurement Feedback,  invited lecture in Orbital Research Inc., Ohio (May, 2003).
  • Nonsmooth Feedback Design for Genuinely Nonlinear Systems that cannot be Smoothly Controlled,  invited lecture in the Deptertment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (March, 2003).
  • "Control of a Family of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems by Time-Varying Output Feedback," invited talk in the Dept. of Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (Nov., 2002).
  • Robust/Adaptive Control of Inherently Nonlinear Systems with Nonlinear Parameterization: Achievements and Perspectives,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Information Science, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 2002).
  • Control of Nonlinear Systems via Nonsmooth Feedback: An Overview,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 2002).
  • Control of Nonlinear Systems by Non-Smooth but Continuous Feedback: the State of the Art,  invited lecture in the Dept. of Applied Mathemetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, (2001).
  • A Continuous Feedback Approach to Global Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (May, 2001).
  • Global Strong Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems: A Continuous Feedback Framework, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong(May, 2001).
  • Non-Lipschitz Continuous Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Uncontrollable Unstable Linearization, invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (April, 2001).
  • Global Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems Using Continuous State Feedback, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (Nov., 2000).
  • Adding a Power Integrator: A Tool for Control of High-Order Lower-Triangular Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (July, 1999).
  • Passivity, Small Feedback, and Synthesis of Nonlinear Systems in the Upper-Triangular Form, invited lecture in the College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI(February, 1999).
  • New Results on Feedback Stabilization of General Feedforward Systems by Small Controls, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (June, 1998).
  • Recent Advances in Robust Control of Structural Uncertain Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Paper Science and the Control Systems Center, University of Manchester of Science and Technology, Manchester, U.K. (July 1997).
  • Feedback Stabilization of a Larger Class of Nonlinear Systems than Feedforward Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. (July, 1997).
  • Low-Gain Design for Inherently Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College, London, U.K. (July 1997).
  • Control of Minimum-Phase Nonlinear Systems with Parameter Uncertainty: Robust and Adaptive, invited lecture in the Dept. of Information Sciences, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan (Dec., 1996).
  • Time-Varying Feedback Design for Non-affine Nonlinear Systems without Drift, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (Dec 1996).
  • Control of Nonlinear Systems with Lower or UpperTriangular Structure, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Dec 1996).
  • Low-Gain Feedback Stabilization of Controllable Nonlinear Systems with Stable Free Dynamics, invited lecture in the Center for Control Engineering and Computation and the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (Oct 1995).
  • Global Stabilization of General Feedforward Nonlinear Systems Including the Ball and Beam Example, invited lecture in the Center for Control Engineering and Computation and the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (Oct 1995).
  • Robust Stabilization and Adaptive Regulation of Uncertain Minimum-Phase Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames (Nov 1995).
  • Robust Stabilization of Uncertain Minimum-Phase Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (May 1995).
  • New Results on Global Stabilization of Continuous and Discrete Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (March 1994).
  • Passivity and Its Applications to Control of Nonlinear Systems, invited lecture in the Dept. of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (July 1994).