Meng Xia - University of Notre Dame

Meng Xia
Contact
Information
275 Fitzpatrick Hall
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
Office: (574) 631-6435
Cell: (574) 339-2596
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www3.nd.edu/~mxia/
Research
Interests
Control theory in cyber-physical systems, networked control systems, event-triggered algorithms,
optimization in large-scale systems, power grids, robotics, data mining and analysis
Education
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN USA
- Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Oct 2013 (expected graduation date: May 2015)
Dissertation Topic: “Passivity in the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems”
Advisor: Panos J. Antsaklis
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- M.S., Control Science and Engineering, Jul 2010
Thesis Topic: “Trajectory optimization for Hypersonic Vehicles”
- B.A., Applied Mathematics, Jun 2008
Professional
Experience
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN USA
Graduate Student at Department of Electrical Engineering
Aug 2010 - present
. Passivity and Approximations for Cyber-Physical Systems:
Developed theory to guarantee stability and passivity under model uncertainties and other
approximations in a large-scale system, including nonlinear and hybrid systems
Invented a novel passivation method for controller design where the time-varying delay
effects can be reduced and the system performance can be improved
Directed a project with GM R&D in a group of three graduate students on passivity and
its application in adaptive cruise control design of automotive systems
. Event-triggered control, computation and communication:
Proposed and implemented a distributed algorithm for network utility maximization problem by applying event-triggered method and consensus filtering
Provided performance expressions for event-triggered schemes for state estimation in networked control systems under various contention resolution mechanisms
. Stability and Optimization in Power Systems with GE energy:
Derived stability conditions for power systems with nonlinear models such that voltage was
guaranteed to be within a safety level and frequency was guaranteed to be synchronized
Solved an optimal power flow dispatch problem where the operation cost was minimized
under constraints imposed by power flow, generation capacity and regulation rules
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Boston, MA USA
Intern at Mechatronics Group
May 2014 - Aug 2014
. Advanced Controller Design for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems:
Designed robust controllers for nonlinear systems with both time-invariant and timevarying uncertainties based on input-to-state stability theory
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Implemented multi-parametric extremum seeking based algorithms to estimate the uncertainties and optimize online a desired performance
Established stability results of the modular design for control and estimation, and validated
the results on a two-link manipulator example
Honors and
Awards
Professional Development Award, University of Notre Dame, 2014
Best Presentation, American Control Conference, 2013
Graduate Fellowship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2010 (Top 5% across the university)
Best Bachelor’s Thesis, 2008 (Top 1% at the Department of Mathematics)
National Scholarship, China, 2007 (Top 1% at the Department of Mathematics)
National Encouragement Scholarship, China, 2006 (Top 1% at the Department of Mathematics)
Teaching
Experience
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN USA
- Teaching Assistant for the graduate course EE68599 Linear Systems, fall 2014
- Guest Lecturer for the graduate course EE60655 Advanced Control Systems, spring 2014
(Topics covered in the Optimal Control Session: HJB equation, Dynamic programming, Linear Quadratic Regulator, State Observers, Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control, The Maximum
Principle and Minimum-time Control)
Journal Papers
M. Xia, P.J. Antsaklis and V. Gupta, “Passivation theory in the analysis of human operators
and automotive systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to be submitted.
Technical report available at http://www3.nd.edu/~isis/techreports/isis-2014-002.pdf
F. Zhu, M. Xia and P.J. Antsaklis, “On Passivity and Passivation of Event-Triggered Feedback
Systems Using Passivity Indices,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted.
Technical report available at http://www3.nd.edu/~isis/techreports/isis-2013-009.pdf
M. Xia, P.J. Antsaklis and V. Gupta, “State Estimation of Multiple Plants over a Shared
Communication Network,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, submitted.
Technical report available at http://www3.nd.edu/~isis/techreports/isis-2013-001.pdf
M. Xia, P.J. Antsaklis and V. Gupta, “Passivity and Dissipativity Analysis of a System and its
Approximation,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, under review.
Technical report available at http://www3.nd.edu/~isis/techreports/isis-2012-007.pdf
Y. Wang, M. Xia, V. Gupta and P.J. Antsaklis, “On Feedback Passivity of Discrete-Time
Nonlinear Networked Control Systems with Packet Drops,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, accepted to appear, 2014.
M. Xia, P.J. Antsaklis and V. Gupta, “Determining Passivity Using Linearizations for Systems
with Feedthrough Term,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, accepted to appear, 2014.
N. Kottenstette, M. McCourt, M. Xia, V. Gupta and P.J. Antsaklis, “On relationships among
passivity, positive realness, and dissipativity in linear systems,” Automatica 50 (4), pp. 1003 1016, 2014.
P. J. Antsaklis, B. Goodwine, V. Gupta, M. J. McCourt, Y. Wang, P. Wu, M. Xia, H. Yu and
F. Zhu, “Control of cyberphysical systems using passivity and dissipativity based methods,”
European Journal of Control 19 (5), pp. 379 - 388, 2013.
Conference
Papers
M. Xia and M. Benosman, “Extremum Seeking-Based Indirect Adaptive Control for Nonlinear
Systems with Time-varying Uncertainties,” 2015 European Control Conference, submitted.
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M. Xia, P.J. Antsaklis and V. Gupta, “Passivity Indices and Passivation of Systems with Application to Systems with Input/output Delay,” 53rd Conference on Decision and Control, pp.
783 - 788, Dec. 2014.
F. Zhu, M. Xia and P.J. Antsaklis, “Passivity Analysis and Passivation of Interconnected EventTriggered Feedback Systems Using Passivity Indices,” Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World
Congress, pp. 11177 - 11182, Aug. 2014.
F. Zhu, M. Xia and P.J. Antsaklis, “Passivity Analysis and Passivation of Feedback Systems
Using Passivity Indices,” American Control Conference, pp. 1833 - 1838, Jun. 2014.
H. Yu, F. Zhu, M. Xia and P.J. Antsaklis, “Robust stabilizing output feedback nonlinear model
predictive control by using passivity and dissipativity,” 2013 European Control Conference, pp.
2050 - 2055, Jul. 2013.
M. Xia, P.J. Antsaklis and V. Gupta, “Passivity Analysis of a System and its Approximation,”
American Control Conference, pp. 296 - 301, Jun. 2013.
M. Xia, V. Gupta and P.J. Antsaklis, “Networked state estimation over a shared communication
medium,” American Control Conference, pp. 4128 - 4133, Jun. 2013.
Z. Wang, M. Xia and M. Lemmon, “Voltage stability of weak power distribution networks with
inverter connected sources,” American Control Conference, pp. 6577 - 6582, Jun. 2013.
Invited Talks
The 3rd Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory at The Ohio State University, Apr
2014
- Poster: On Passivity Analysis and Passivation of Feedback Interconnected Systems Using
Passivity Indices
- Talk: Passivity and Dissipativity Analysis of a System and its Approximations
Workshop on Control of Cyber-Physical Systems at Johns Hopkins University, Mar 2013
- Talk: On Passivity Bounds using Approximate Models
Professional
Affiliations
- Student Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Active Reviewer for Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Journal of Control Theory and Applications,
American Control Conference (ACC), Conference on Control and Decision (CDC), European
Control Conference (ECC), International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)
Computer Skills Languages: C++, R
Software: Matlab/Simulink, Carsim
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