CH 
ZHOU Pingfang
Associate Researcher
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Room 325
zhoupf@sjtu.edu.cn
Educational Background
- 2002 - 2006， Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Control Theory and Control Engineering, Doctor
- 1999 - 2002， Central South University, Changsha, China, Control Theory and Control Engineering, Master
- 1995 - 1999， Zhengzhou University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China, Industrial Automation, Bachelor
Work Experience
- 2010-Present，School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University，Associate Professor
- 2006-2010，School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University，Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Flight control
- Flight control system and avionics
- Airship design and system integration
Major Research Projects
- Stratospheric Airship Design and Its Experiments.
- Flight Control System and Its Technical Services for Stratospheric Airship.
- Flight Control System and Its Technical Services for Unmanned Airship.
- Adaptive Coordinated Thrust Control of Stratospheric Airship Subject to the Hull-Propeller Interaction Through Non-Uniform Inflow, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021-2024.
- Dynamics Modeling and Station-Keeping Control for Large Scale Flexible Stratospheric Airship Subject to Fluid-Structure Interaction, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018.
Representative Papers And Monographs
- Zhou P.F.*, Lin Q.M., Jing Y.H. An introduction to electric thruster modeling for stratospheric airship, Aerospace Systems, 7:315-325, 2024.
- Lin Q.M., Zhou P.F. *, Wang Q.B., Wu Y. Path-following control of an under-actuated stratospheric airship with unknown dynamics and external disturbances using time-delay control, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G-Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2024.
- Lin Q.M., Zhou P.F. *, Duan D.P. Finite-time command-filtered backstepping control for nonlinear systems with input delay and time-varying full-state constraints, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 45:1128-1139, 2023.
- Jing Y.H., Yang Z.H., Zhou P.F. *, and etc. Cooperative deployment multi-objective optimization approach for high-resolution multi-airship earth-observation coverage network, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 10:3435-3449, 2023.
- Xiao L.Z., Zhou P.F. *, Wu Y., and etc. Trajectory planning with minimum energy consumption for multi-target regions autonomous cruise of stratospheric airship in wind field, Aerospace Systems, 6:521-529, 2023.
- Jing Y.H., Wu Y. Tang J.W., Zhou P.F., and etc. Receding horizon trajectory generation of stratospheric airship in low-altitude return phase, Aerospace, 9(11), 670, 2022.
- Tang J.W., Xie W.C., Zhou P.F. *, and etc. Multidisciplinary optimization and analysis of stratospheric airships powered by solar arrays, Aerospace, 10(1), 43, 2022.
- Wei Y., Zhou P.F. *, Duan D.P., Zhou W.X. Adaptive finite-time attitude tracking control of an autonomous airship with full state constraints and uncertainties, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2022.
- Wei Y., Zhou P.F. *, Wang Y.Y., and etc. Virtual guidance-based finite-time path-following control of under-actuated autonomous airship with error constraints and uncertainties, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 235:1246-1259, 2021.
- Wei Y., Zhou P.F. *, Xie W.C., and etc. Event-triggered adaptive output-feedback control for nonlinear state-constrained systems using tangent-type nonlinear mapping, Asian Journal of Control, 24:2189-2201, 2021.
- Wei Y., Zhou P.F. *, Liang Y.Z., and etc. Adaptive finite-time neural backstepping control for multi-input and multi-output state-constrained nonlinear systems using tangent-type nonlinear mapping, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 30:5559-5578, 2020.
- Zhou W.X., Zhou P.F. *, Wei Y., Duan D.P. Finite-time spatial path following control for a robotic under-actuated airship, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 14:449-454, 2020.
- Zhou W.X., Zhou P.F. *, Wang Y.Y., Duan D.P. Planar path following nonlinear controller design for an autonomous airship, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 233:1879-1899, 2019.
- Zhou W.X., Zhou P.F., Wang Y.Y., and etc. Station-keeping control of an under-actuated stratospheric airship, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 21:715-732, 2019.
- Wang Y.Y., Xia Y.Q., Li H.Y., Zhou, P.F. * A new integral sliding mode design method for nonlinear stochastic systems, Automatica, 90:304-305, 2018.
- Wang Y.Y., Xia Y.Q., Shen H., Zhou P.F. SMC design for robust stabilization of nonlinear Markovian jump singular systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63:219-224, 2018.