Dr Jie Chen

Academic Career

• 1984 and 1987 respectively,BEng and the MSc degrees in Control Systems Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), China.
• 1987 - 1990, Research & Teaching Assistant in BUAA, China.
• 1990 - 1994, Research Associate, Department of Electronics, University of York, UK.
• 1994 - 1995, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK.
• 1995, DPhil degree in Electronic Engineering from University of York, UK.
• 1995 - 1998, Lecturer of Control Systems Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Hull, UK.
• 1998 - present, Lecturer of Aeronautical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University, UK.

Research Interests

• Robust Aircraft Control Systems
• Fault Diagnosis of Dynamic Systems with Applications to Aircraft Control Systems
• Intelligent Fault-Tolerant Control using Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms
• Robust Estimation and Identification for Fault Diagnosis and Control

Teaching

• Fundamentals of Control Engineering
• Modern Control Systems

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Hao, L., Goniszewski, S., Chen, J. and Gallop, J., Microwave excitation and readout of nano- and micron scale cantilevers, Applied Surface Science 258 (6) : 2192- 2195

(2011) Mustafaraj, G., Lowry, G. and Chen, J., Prediction of room temperature and relative humidity by autoregressive linear and nonlinear neural network models for an open office, Energy and Buildings 43 (6) : 1452- 1460

(2010) Mustafaraj, G., Chen, J. and Lowry, G., Thermal behaviour prediction utilizing artificial neural networks for an open office, Applied Mathematical Modelling 34 (11) : 3216- 3230

(2010) Mustafaraj, G., Chen, J. and Lowry, G., Development of room temperature and relative humidity linear parametric models for an open office using BMS data, Energy and Buildings 42 (3) : 348- 356

(2009) Hao, L., Gallop, JC., Cox, D., Romans, EJ., Macfarlane, JC. and Chen, J., Focused ion beam nanoSQUIDs as novel NEMS resonator readouts, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 19 (3) : 693- 696

(2009) Mustafaraj, G., Chen, J. and Lowry, G., Thermal behaviour model identification for an office space using BMS data, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 30 (4) : 329- 341

(2008) Yang, SS. and Chen, J., Design and assessment of a multiple sensor fault tolerant robust control system, Journal of Control Science and Engineering 2008 (2008) : 152030

(2007) Hao, L., Macfarlane, JC., Gallop, JC., Cox, D., Joseph-Franks, P., Hutson, D., Chen, J. and Lam, SKH., Novel methods of fabrication and metrology of superconducting nanostructures, IEEE Transactions of Instrumentation and Measurement 56 (2) : 392- 396 Download publication

(2007) Yang, SS. and Chen, J., Improved robustness and sensor fault tolerance via a generalized internal model-based fault-tolerant controller, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 221 (7) : 957- 973

(2007) Hao, L., Macfarlane, JC., Gallop, JC., Romans, E., Cox, D., Hutson, D. and Chen, J., Spatial resolution assessment of nano-SQUIDs made by focused ion beam, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 17 (2, Part 1) : 742- 745

(2006) Yang, SS. and Chen, J., Sensor faults compensation for MIMO fault-tolerant control systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 28 (2) : 187- 205

(2000) Patton, RJ., Chen, J. and Benkhedda, H., A study on neuro-fuzzy systems for fault diagnosis, International Journal of Systems Science 31 (11) : 1441- 1448

(2000) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., On eigenstructure assignment for robust fault diagnosis, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 10 (14) : 1193- 1208

(1999) Chen, J., Patton, RJ. and Chen, Z., Active fault-tolerant flight control systems design using the linear matrix inequality method, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 21 (2-3) : 77- 84

(1999) Chen, J., Patton, RJ. and Lopez-Toribio, CJ., Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant estimation of a rail traction system via fuzzy observers, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 21 (1) : 14- 20

(1999) Chen, J., Lopez-Toribio, CJ. and Patton, RJ., Non-linear dynamic systems fault detection and isolation using fuzzy observers, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers -- Part I -- Journal of Systems & Control Engineering 213 (6) : 467- 476

(1997) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Observer-based fault detection and isolation: robustness and applications, Control Engineering Practice 5 (5) : 671- 682

(1997) Patton, RJ., Chen, J. and Liu, GP., Robust fault detection of dynamic systems via genetic algorithms, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 211 (5) : 357- 364

(1996) Chen, J., Patton, RJ. and Zhang, HY., Design of unknown input observers and robust fault detection filters, International Journal of Control 63 (1) : 85- 105

(1996) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Neural networks in fault diagnosis of nonlinear dynamic systems, Engineering Simulation 13 (6) : 905- 924

(1996) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Neural networks in non-linear dynamic systems fault diagnosis, Engineering Simulation 113 (6) : 905- 924

(1996) Chen, J. and Patton, RJ., Optimal filtering and robust fault diagnosis of stochastic systems with unknown disturbances, IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications 143 (1) : 31- 36

(1996) Chen, J., Patton, RJ. and Liu, GP., Optimal residual design for fault diagnosis using multi-objective optimization and genetic algorithms, International Journal of Systems Science 27 (6) : 567- 576

(1996) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Robust fault detection and isolation (FDI) systems, Control and Dynamic Systems 74 (C) : 171- 224

(1995) Jørgensen, RB., Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., An eigenstructure assignment approach to FDI for the industrial actuator benchmark test, Control Engineering Practice 3 (12) : 1751- 1756

(1995) Patton, RJ., Chen, J. and Nielsen, SB., Model-based methods for fault diagnosis: some guide-lines, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 17 (2) : 73- 83

(1994) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Review of parity space approaches to fault diagnosis for aerospace systems, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 17 (2) : 278- 285

(1993) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Optimal unknown input distribution matrix selection in robust fault diagnosis, Automatica 29 (4) : 837- 841

(1993) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Robustness in quantitative model-based fault diagnosis, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Compiter Science 3 (3) : 15- 32

(1992) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Robust fault detection of jet engine sensor systems using eigenstructure assignment, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 15 (6) : 1491- 1497

(1991) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., A re-examination of the relationship between parity space and observer-based approaches in fault diagnosis, European Journal of Diagnosis and Safety in Automation 1 (2) : 183- 200

Conference Papers

(1998) Patton, RJ., Chen, J. and Lopez-Toribio, CJ., Fuzzy observers for non-linear dynamic systems fault diagnosis, 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

(1998) Chen, J., Linear matrix inequality formulation of fault-tolerant control systems design, 3rd IFAC Workshop on On-Line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process Industries 1998

(1998) Duan, GR., Patton, RJ., Chen, J. and Chen, Z., A parametric approach for robust fault detection in linear systems with unknown disturbances, 3rd IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1997 (SAFEPROCESS 97)

(1998) Chen, Z., Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Robust fault-tolerant system synthesis via LMI, 3rd IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1997 (SAFEPROCESS 97)

(1998) Sadrnia, MA., Chen, J. and Patton, RJ., Robust H-infinity/mu observer-based residual generation for fault diagnosis, 3rd IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1997 (SAFEPROCESS 97)

(1997) Sadrnia, MA., Chen, J. and Patton, RJ., Robust fault detection observer design using H-infinity/mu techniques for uncertain flight control systems, IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND 97)

(1996) Sadrnia, MA., Chen, J. and Patton, RJ., Robust fault diagnosis observer design using H∞ optimization and μ synthesis, IEE Colloqium on Modeling and Signal Processing for Fault Diagnosis, IEE Colloquium (Digest) (1996/260) : 9/1- 9/16

(1996) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Observer-based fault detection and isolation: robustness and applications, Tutorial Workshop on Supervision, Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Technical Systems at the IFAC World Congress, Control Engineering Practice (5) : 671- 682

(2008) Yang, SS., Mid, EC., Mohamed, HAF., Moghavvemi, M. and Chen, J., Modified feedback configuration for sensor fault tolerant control, , 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2008 2038- 2043

(2006) Yang, SS. and Chen, J., A robust controller configuration for multiple sensor fault tolerance, , IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) (6) : 902- 907

(2006) Chen, J., Fault tolerance evaluation of a neural predictive flight control system, , IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) (6) : 330- 335

(2001) Patton, RJ. and Chen, J., Fault-tolerant control using LMI design, European Control Conference (ECC’01)

(1998) Chen, J., Patton, RJ. and Chen, Z., An LMI approach to fault-tolerant control of uncertain systems, Joint Conference on the Science and Technology of Intelligent Systems ISIC/CIRA/ISAS

(1998) Chen, J., Patton, RJ. and Chen, Z., LMI approach to fault-tolerant control of uncertain systems, , IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control - Proceedings 175- 180

(1995) Patton, RJ., Chen, J. and Liu, GP., Robust fault detection of dynamic systems via genetic algorithms, , IEE Conference Publication 511- 516

Books

(1999) Chen, J. and Patton, R., Robust model-based fault diagnosis for dynamic systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers