Department staff
Professor Qing-Chang Zhong MSc, PhD, FIET, SMIEEE
Professor of Control Engineering Personal website
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 223
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Email q.zhong@lboro.ac.uk
Background
- Professor, Loughborough University, UK, 2010 - now
- Senior Lecturer, The University of Liverpool, UK, 2005 - 2010
- Senior Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust, 2009 - 2010
- Senior Lecturer then Reader, University of Glamorgan, UK, 2004 - 2005
- Research Associate, Imperial College London, UK, 2001 - 2003
- Research Associate, Technion-Israel Instiute of Technology, Israel, 2000 - 2001
- Research Assistant, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China, 1997 - 2000
- Research Assistant, Hunan University, China, 1994 - 1997
- Assistant Lecturer, Hunan Institute of Engineering, China, 1990 - 1994
Research groups
- Control and Reliability
Research interests and activities (Overview: slides or poster)
Control Theory:
- Robust/H-infinity control
- Time-delay cystems
- UDE (Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator)-based control
Applications in Chemical Engineering:
- Integral processes with dead time
- Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors (CSTR)
Applications in Electrical Engineering:
- Control of inverters: Power quality improvement, neutral line provision, grid-friendly connection of renewable energy sources, parallel operation of inverters
- Electric drives
- Renewable energy and distributed generation, in particular, wind power
- Energy recovery and storage systems
- HOMES: High-efficiency Off-grid Multi-source Electrical Supplies
Applications in Aeronautical Engineering:
- Engine control
- Energy recovery from landing aircraft
- Aircraft power systems
Applications in Automotive Engineering:
- Hybrid electrical vehicles
- EV charging systems with grid support (V2G)
- EV drive systems
- Energy management
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HIL) and rapid control prototyping (RCP)
Research Monographs
- Q.-C. Zhong and T. Hornik, Control of Power Inverters for Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy, Wiley-IEEE Press, to appear in 2011.
- A. Visioli and Q.-C. Zhong, Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time, Springer-Verlag Limited, London, 2010.
- Q.-C. Zhong, Robust Control of Time-delay Systems. ISBN: 1-84628-264-0. Springer-Verlag Limited, London, 2006
External activities
- Fellow of The Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
- Director of the Network for New Academics in Control Engineering and related areas (New-ACE, www.newace.org.uk), originally funded by EPSRC and now a Group Member of UK Automatic Control Council (UKACC), 2007 -
- Member, IFAC Technical Committee 2.2 (Linear control systems), 2006 -
- Member, IChemE Process Management and Control Subject Group Comm., 2009-
- Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, July 2009 -
- International Editorial Board Member of Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, 2003-2008
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2010 -
- External Examiner
- External Examiner of the MSc Power and Control Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University, 2010 - 2014
- PhD External Examiner, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, 2010.
- PhD External Examiner, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Imperial College London, 2008.
Awards
- Highly Commended Certificate at the IET Innovation Awards 2009 for synchronverters (jointly with G. Weiss), November 2009.
- Best Doctoral Thesis (the Eryl Cadwaladar Davies Prize), Imperial College London, 2004.
- Outstanding Reviewer for Automatica, 2004