Dr Tai Cheng Yang
Email: taiyang@sussex.ac.uk

Reader in Computer and Control Engineering, Department of Engineering and Design, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QT, UK

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Current Research Interests:

· Wind Energy and Power System Control

· Networks and Control, in particular, Networked Control Systems (NCS)

· Control Theory and Applications

Publications (133 items by the end of 2009, among them 53 are journal papers)

A list of the publications from 2001 can be found from the University official staff Web page, click on the Publications above.

IET proceedings: Renewable Power Generations, The 5^th most downloaded paper in 2008: T. C.

Yang, “An Initial Study of Using Rechargeable Batteries in Wind Power Generation with

Variable Speed Induction Generators”, Vol. 2, pp.89-101, June, 2008.

IET Proceedings: Control Theory and Applications, The 5^th most downloaded paper in 2008: T. C.

Yang, “Networked Control System: A Brief Survey”, Vol. 153, pp. 403- 412, July, 2006.

Abstracts of recent publications on Wind Power Generations

Software and Programs

· NCS_simu: Software and User’s guide

· Double pendulums coupled by a spring (point-to-point connection)

· Networked Control System: A Design Challenge

· A Design for the NCS Challenge

· A scalable controller for n pendulums coupled by n-1 springs (A *.zip file includes the document and Matlab Demo files)

Selected Presentations

· Control in Renewable Energy Systems EPSRC/UKACC Postgraduate Workshop in Conjunction with the Control 2008 Int. Conf. (Sept. 2008)

· IMechE/IET Presentation on Wind Power Generation (Nov. 2007)

· Current limitations in the study of Networked Control Systems (CDC Conf., Dec. 2006)

· Can you do it better? (A special optimal controller design which has penalties on the costs of sensors and actuators)

· Networked Control Systems: Current Research and Future (Plenary Lecture, The 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on SYSTEMS, Athens, Greece, July, 2006)

1. Shorted version (24 slides)

2. Full-length version (54 slides)

· Networked and Embedded Control Systems: An introduction, applications in automotive industry, and a new simulation package: NCS_simu

BEng (Year 3) / MEng (Year 4) / MSc Project

Year 3 Project

• To all Year 3 students (From the Faculty Year 3/4 project co-ordinator)

Feedback from various project students: “Working under Dr Yang is enjoyable and rewarding”, “Although you are a busy person, but you always managed time for us”…… A 2006 Christmas card from a student reads: “To Dr Yang, …… Thank you again for your support of my final year project in 2004, ……”

Password Restricted Area

· (need password) Lecture Notes: Linear Matrix Inequalities in Control System Design

· (need password) Tutorial: Delay in Control Systems