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Yu-Chu Tian, PhD (USyd)

Head, Discipline of Networks and Communications (NetCom)
Associate Professor of Computer Science
School of Electrical Eng & Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology
Room 1005, Level 10, 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane City
GPO Box 2434, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia

Phone:  +61 (07) 31382177     Fax:  +61 (07) 31382703
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Publications

I have published over 140 peer-refereed papers altogether (several papers are still under review). Below is only a list of my selected publications during the last few years (since 1997). Last updated on 6 October 2011.

Year 2011:

  1. Tian, G; Tian, YC. Modelling and Performance Evaluation of the IEEE 802.11 DCF for Real-Time Control. Computer Networks, in press, accepted on 6 Oct 2011, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2011.10.001.
  2. Tian, YC; Jiang, X; Levy, D; Agrawala, A. Local adjustment and global adaptation of control periods for QoC management of control systems. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, in press, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2011.2141133.
  3. Tian, YC; Gui, L. QoC Elastic scheduling for real-time control systems. Real-Time Systems, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 534-536, December 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s11241-011-9133-x.
  4. Gui, L; Tian, YC; Fidge, C. A conditional retransmission enabled transport protocol for real-time networked control systems. The 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'2011), pp. 235-238, Bonn, Germany, 4-7 October 2011.
  5. Peng, C; Tian, YC; Yue, D. Network QoS constrained output feedback control of discrete-time systems in networked environments. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 185-190, Jan 2011. DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2055155

Year 2010:

  1. Tian, G; Tian, YC; Fidge, C. Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF based WNCS networks. The 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2010), pp.512-519, Denver, Colorado, USA, 11-14 October 2010.
  2. Tian, G; Tian, YC. Markov modelling of the IEEE 802.11 DCF for real-time applications with periodic traffic. The 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC'2010), pp. 419-426, Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 September 2010.
  3. Yao, H; Zhang, T; Tade, MO; Tian, YC. Wavelet based approaches and high resolution methods for complex process models. In Chapter 10 of Handbook of Computational Chemistry Research, edited by C. T. Collett and C.D. Robson, ISBN: 978-1-60741-047-8, Nova Science Publishers, 2010.  
  4. Yao, H; Tade, MO; Tian, YC. Accelerated computation of cyclic steady state for simulated-moving-bed processes. Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 65, no. 5, 1694-1704, Mar 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.11.012
  5. Peng, C; Yue, D; Tian, YC. Delay distribution based robust H-infinity control of NCS with uncertainties. Asian Journal of Control, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 46-57, Jan 2010. DOI: 10.1002/asjc.156.  

Year 2009:

  1. Tian, G; Fidge, C; Tian, YC. Hybrid system simulation of computer control applications over communication networks. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2009), South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, UK, 21-23 September 2009.
  2. Peng, C; Yue, D; Tian, YC. New approach on robust delay-dependent H-infinity control for uncertain T-S fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delay. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 890-900, Aug 2009. DOI:10.1109/TFUZZ.2008.926586.
  3. Peng, C; Tian, YC. Delay-dependent robust H-infinity control for uncertain systems with time-varying delay. Information Sciences, vol. 179, no. 18, pp. 3187-3197, August 2009. DOI:10.1016/j.ins.2009.05.003.
  4. Xia, F; Sun, YX; Tian, YC. Feedback scheduling of priority-driven control networks. Computer Standards and Interfaces, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 539-547, March 2009. DOI:10.1016/j.csi.2008.03.020.
  5. Xia, F; Sun, Y; Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Dong, J. Fuzzy feedback scheduling of resource-constrained embedded control systems. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 311-321, Feb 2009.  

Year 2008:

  1. Miao, H; Tian, YC. Robot path planning in dynamic environments using a simulated annealing based approach. In Proceedings of the 10th Int Conf on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV'2008, pp. 1253-1258, Hanoi, Vietnam, 17-20 Dec 2008.
  2. Xia, F; Tian, YC; Sun, Y; Dong, J. Neural feedback scheduling of real-time control tasks. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 2965-2975, Nov 2008.
  3. Peng, C; Tian, YC; Tian, E. Improved delay-dependent robust stabilization conditions of uncertain T-S fuzzy systems with time-varying delay. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 159, no. 20, pp. 2713-2729, Oct 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2008.03.009.
  4. Zhang, T; Tade, MO; Tian, YC; Zang, H. High-resolution method for numerically solving PDEs in process engineering. Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 2403-2408, Oct 2008. 
  5. Peng, C; Tian, YC & Tade, MO. State feedback controller design of networked control systems with interval time-varying delay and nonlinearity. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1285-1301, Oct 2008.
  6. Peng, C; Tian, YC . Improved delay-dependent robust stability criteria for uncertain systems with interval time-varying delay. IET Control Theory and Applications. vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 752-761, Sept 2008. DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta:20070362.
  7. Xia, F; Tian, YC; Sun, Y; Dong J. Control-theoretic dynamic voltage scaling for embedded controllers. IET Computers & Digital Techniques, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 377-385, Sept 2008. DOI: 10.1049/iet-cdt:20070112
  8. Tian, YC; Levy, D. Dealing with network complexity in real-time networked control. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, vol. 85, no. 8, pp. 1235-1253, August 2008. DOI: 10.1080/00207160701697354.
  9. Zhang, T; Tian, YC; Tade, MO. Wavelet-based collocation method for stiff systems in process engineering. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 501-513, August 2008.
  10. Yao, H; Tian, YC; Tade, MO. Using wavelets for solving SMB separation process models. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. vol. 47, no. 15, pp. 5585-5593, August 2008.
  11. Peng, C; Tian, YC; Yue, D. Delay-dependent robust stability analysis for neutral systems with discrete and distributed delays. In: Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08, pp. 916-921, Chongqing, China, 25-27 June 2008.
  12. Zhang, T; Tade, MO; Tian, YC; Zhang, Y; Utomo J. Wavelet approach incorporated with optimization for solving stiff systems. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1533-1548, May 2008.
  13. Peng, C; Tian, YC. Delay-dependent robust stability criteria for uncertain systems with interval time-varying delay. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 214, no. 2, pp. 480-494, April 2008. 
  14. Tian, G; Fidge, C; Tian, YC. High-precision relative clock synchronization using time stamp counters. In Proc the 13th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2008), pp. 69-78, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 31 March - 4 April 2008.
  15. Zang, H; Zhang, T; Tian, YC; Tade, MO. Limit cycles for the Kukles system. Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 283-298, April 2008.
  16. Tian, YC; Levy, D. Compensation for control packet dropout in networked control systems. Information Sciences, vol. 178, no. 5), pp. 1263-1278, March 2008.  

Year 2007:

  1. Xia, F; Zhao, W; Sun, Y; Tian, YC. Fuzzy Logic Control Based QoS Management in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks, Sensors, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 3179-3191, 2007.
  2. Zhang, T; Tian, YC; Tade, MO. On the zeros of the Abelian integrals for a class of perturbed Lienard systems. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 3281-3287, 2007.
  3. Xia, F; Tian, YC; Li, Y; Sun, Y. Wireless sensor/actuator network design for mobile control applications. Sensors, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 2157-2173, 2007.
  4. Peng, C; Tian, YC. Networked H_infinity control of linear systems with state quantization. Information Sciences, vol. 177, no. 24, pp. 5763-5774, 2007.
  5. Tian, YC; Levy, D. Configuring the worst-case communication delay in real-time networked control systems. In: H. R. Arabnia, L. T. Yang, eds., Proc. of the 2007 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'2007), pp. 114-120, CSREA Press, Las Vegas Nevada, USA, 25-28 June 2007.
  6. Gui, L; Tian, YC; Fidge, F. Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11B Wireless Networks for Real-Time Networked Control Systems. In: H. R. Arabnia, L. T. Yang, eds., Proc. of the 2007 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'2007), pp. 121-126, CSREA Press, Las Vegas Nevada, USA, 25-28 June 2007.
  7. Zhang, T; Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Utomo, J. Comments on "The Computation of Wavelet-Galerkin Approximation on a Bounded Interval". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 244-251, 2007.
  8. Peng, C; Tian, YC. Network quality-of-service based guaranteed cost control for networked control systems. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulse Systems B - Applications and Algorithms, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 233-247, 2007.
  9. Zhang, T; Tade, MO; Tian, YC. Linear estimate of the number of limit cycles for a class of non-linear systems. Chaos, Soliton and Fractals, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 804-810,  2007.
  10. Tian, YC; Yu, ZG; Fidge, C. Multifractal nature of network induced time delay in networked control systems. Physics Letters A, vol. 361, nos. 1-2, vol. 103-107, 2007.

Year 2006:

  1. Peng, C; Tian, YC. Robust H-infinity control of networked control systems with parameter uncertainty and state delay. European Journal of Control, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 471-480, 2006. 
  2. Zhang, T; Tade, MO MO, Tian, YC; Han M. On the zeros of the Abelian integrals for a class of Lienard systems. Physics Letters A, vol. 358, no. 4, pp. 262-374, Oct 2006.
  3. Tian, YC; Han, QL; Levy, D; Tade, MO. Reducing control latency and jitter in real-time control. Asian Journal of Control, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 72-75, 2006.
  4. Peng, C; Tian, YC. Robust controller design of networked control systems with nonlinear uncertainties. Proc 3rd Int Conf on Impulse Dynamic Systems and applications, pp. 1525-1529, 2006.
  5. Fidge, C; Tian, YC. Functional analysis of a real-time protocol for networked control systems. In: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. 4th Int Symposium, ATAV2006, Beijing, P. R. China, 23-26 Oct 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4218/2006, pp. 446-460, 2006. Grafand, S and Zhang W eds., Springer-Verlag Heidelberg.
  6. Tian, YC; Han, QL; Fidge, C; Tade, MO; Gu, T. Communication architecture design for real-time networked control systems. Proc IEEE Int Conf on Communications, Circuits and Systems - ICCCAS'06, pp. 1840-1845, Guilin, China, 25-28 June 2006.
  7. Campbell , A; Pham, B; Tian, YC. A framework for spatio-temporal data analysis and hypothesis exploration. iMESs Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software, Vermont, USA Software, 9-12 July 2006.
  8. Tian; YC; Levy, D; Tade, MO; Gu, T & Fidge C. Queuing packets in communication networks for networked control systems. Proc The 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation - WCICA'06, pp. 205-209, Dalian, China , 21-23 June 2006.
  9. Jiang X; Han, QL; Tian, YC. Controller design for networked fuzzy systems. Proc The 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation - WCICA'06, pp. 210-214, Dalian, China, 21-23 June 2006.
  10. Han, QL, Tian, YC; Han, D. Robust absolute stability criteria for a class of uncertain Lur'e systems of neutral type. Proc The 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation - WCICA'06, pp. 2339-2343, Dalian, China, 21-23 June 2006. 

Year 2005:

  1. Campbell, Alex; Pham, Binh; Tian, YC. Delay-embedding approach to multi-agent system analysis and calibration. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, 113-119. ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9. Congress on 12-15 Dec 2005, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim05/papers/campbell.pdf

Year 2004:

  1. Bisowarno BH, Tian YC; Tade MO. Application of side reactors on ETBE reactive distillation. Chem Eng Journalal, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 35-43, May 2004.
  2. Bisowarno BH, Tian YC; Tade MO. Interaction of separation and reactive stages on ETBE reactive distillation columns. AIChE Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 646 - 653, March 2004.
  3. Bisowarno BH, Tian YC; Tade MO. Adaptive control of an ETBE reactive distillation column. Journal of Chem Eng Japan, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 210-216, Feb 2004.
  4. Tian, YC; Levy, D; Gu, T (2004). Implementing a process model for real-time applications. In Proc Complex'04 (The 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Complex Systems), pp. 287-296, Cairns, Australia, 6-10 December 2004,
  5. Campbell, AB; Pham, B; Tian, YC. Mining ecological data using cellular automata. ARCI 2004 (The 6th Int Conf on Celluar Automata for Research and Industry), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25-27 Oct 2004. In: Peter M. A. Sloot, Bastien Chopard, and Alfons G. Hoekstra, editors, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3305/2004, pp. 478-483, 2004. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743.
  6. Hu, J; Shi, M; Tian, YC. A new switching function for variable structure control . In Proc. WCICA'04 (World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation), Hangzhou, China, 1163-1166, 2004. 

Year 2003:

  1. Bisowarno BH, Tian YC; Tade, MO. Model gain scheduling control of an ethyl tert-butyl ether reactive distillation column. Ind Eng Chem Res, 42(15), 3584-3591, July 2003.
  2. Li, L; Tian, YC; Tade , MO et al. Apoptosis of tumour cells by temperature and anti-tumour drug: microscopic and macroscopic investigations. Journal of Thermal Biology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 321 - 329, May 2003. DOI:10.1016/S0306-4565(03)00008-1.
  3. Tian, YC; Zhao, FT; Bisowarno, BH; Tade , MO. Pattern-based predictive control for ETBE reactive distillation. Journal of Process Control, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 57-67, 2003 
  4. Gu , T; Dong, R; Tian, YC. Continuous Petri nets augmented with maximal and minimal firing speeds. In Proc IEEE Int Conf on SMC, pp. 1493-1498, Washington , DC, USA, 5 - 8 Oct 2003. 

Year 2002:

  1. Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Yao, HM. Optimization in modelling, operation and control of a fermentation process. In: Recent Developments in Optimization and Optimal Control in Chemical Engineering, Luus R ed., Research Signpost, 155-177, 2002.
  2. Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Levy, D. Constrained control of chaos. Physics Letters A, vol. 296, nos. 2-3, pp. 87-90, 2002.
  3. Zhao F; Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Li, H. A time-delay compensation strategy for processes with uncertainties. Computers and Chem Eng, vol. 26, pp. 1437-1447, 2002.
  4. Tian, YC; Tade, MO. Process systems engineering: successful application in an industrial process. Dev Chem Eng Mineral Processing, vol. 10, nos. 1/2, pp. 181-196, 2002.
  5. Tian YC, Zhao F, Bisowarno BH, Tade MO, Rangaiah GP. Pattern-Based Control For Product Purity In Etbe Reactive Distillation, The 4th Asian Control Conference, Paper WA9-9, Singapore, 25-27 Sept 2002.
  6. Bisowarno, BH; Tian, YC; Tade , MO. Adaptive control of an ETBE reactive distillation column. In Proc of the 9th APCCHE Congress and CHEMECA 2002, Paper #545, New Zealand, 2002.  
  7. Bisowarno, BH; Tian, YC; Tade , MO. Effects of separation stages on ETBE reactive distillation performance. In Proc of the 9th APCCHE Congress and CHEMECA 2002, Paper #778, New Zealand, 2002.
  8. Lockwood, NJ; Tade, MO; Tian, YC. Multicomponent optimisation of reactive distillation systems - an ETBE case study. In Proc of the 9th APCCHE Congress and CHEMECA 2002, Paper #780, New Zealand, 2002. 

Year 2001:

  1. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Analysis and implementation of the double-controller scheme. Dev in Chem Eng & Mineral Process., vol. 9, nos. 1/2, pp. 57-68, 2001.
  2. Yao, HM; Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Ang, H M. An integrated L-lysine Fermentation Process Model with Agitation Speed as the Manipulated Variable. Dev in Chem Eng & Mineral Process., vol. 9, nos. 1/2, pp. 77-87, 2001.
  3. Yao, HM; Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Ang, H M. Variations and modelling of oxygen demand in amino acid production. Chem Eng and Processing, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 401-409, 2001.
  4. Kam, K; Tade, MO; Rangaiah, GP; Tian, YC. Strategies for enhancing geometric nonlinear control of an industrial evaporator system. Ind Eng Chem Res, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 656-667, 2001.
  5. Tian, YC; Yao, HM; Tade, MO; Ang, HM. Control of oxygen demand in l-lysine fermentation processes, In Proc The 6th World Congress of Chem Eng, Melbourne, Australia, 2001.
  6. Zhao, FT; Tian, YC; Bisowarno, BH; Tade, MO. Nonlinear pattern-based predictive control of a reactive distillation column. In Proc The 6th World Congr of Chem Eng, Melbourne, Australia, 2001.

Year 2000:

  1. Tian, YC; Hou, CH; Gao, F. Mathematical model of a continuous galvanizing annealing furnace. Dev in Chem Eng & Mineral Process., vol. 8, nos. 3/4, pp. 359-374, 2000.
  2. Tian, YC; Tade , MO. Nonlinear open-plus-closed-loop control of dynamic systems. Chaos, Soliton & Fractals, vol. 11, pp. 1029-1035, 2000.
  3. Tian, YC; Tade, MO. Inference of conversion and purity for ETBE reactive distillation . Brazilian J of Chem Eng, vol. 17, nos. 4-7, pp. 617-625, 2000.
  4. Tade, MO; Tian, YC. Conversion Inference for ETBE Reactive Distillation, Separation and Purification Tech, vol. 19, pp. 85-91, 2000.
  5. Yao, HM; Tian, YC; Tade, MO; Ang, HM. Modelling and simulation for L-lysine fermentation processes. Proc The 3rd Asian Control Conference (ASCC'00), Shanghai, China, 2000.  
  6. Kam, K; Tade, MO; Tian, YC; Rangiah, G. Robust nonlinear control of a simulated industrial evaporation system. Proc IFAC Int Symp on Advanced Control of Chem Processes (ADCHEM'00), Pisa, Italy, 2000. 

Year 1999:

  1. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Injection velocity control of thermoplastic injection molding via a double controller scheme. Ind Chem Eng Res, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 3396-3406, 1999.
  2. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Control of integrator processes with dominant time delay. Ind Chem Eng Res, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 2979-2983, 1999.
  3. Tian, YC; Gao, F; Tade, MO. Control of integrator processes with long dead-time, Proc 14th World Congress of IFAC, vol. C, pp. 277-282, Beijing, China, 1999.
  4. Tian, YC; Gao, F, A nonlinear PID controller with applications, Proc 14th World Congress of IFAC, Vol. E, pp. 533-537, Beijing, China, 1999.
  5. Tade, MO; Tian, YC. Inferring conversion in reactive distillation of ETBE, Proc 8th APPChE Congress, vol. 2, pp. 1073-1076, Seoul, Korea,  1999.
  6. Tian, YC; Tade, MO. Chaos control for the Lorenz system, Chemeca'99: Book of Abstracts, Newcastle, Australia, 1999.
  7. Tian, YC (1999). A double-controller scheme for industrial processes with dominant delay. Acta Automatica Sinica, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 824-827, 1999. (in Chinese) 
  8. Tian, YC. Controlling integrator processes with long delay. Control Theory & Appl, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 396-400, 1999. (in English). 

Year 1998:

  1. Tian, YC; Gao, F. A double-controller scheme for control of processes with dominant delay. IEE Proc: Control Theory & Appl, vol. 145, no. 5, pp. 479-484, 1998.
  2. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Adaptive control of chaotic continuous-time systems with delay. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 117, pp. 1-12, 1998. 
  3. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Double-controller scheme for separating load rejection from set-point tracking. Trans IChemE Part A: Chem Eng Res Des, vol. 76A, pp. 445-450, 1998.
  4. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Compensation of dominant and variable delay in process systems. Ind Eng Chem Res, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 982-986, 1998.
  5. Tian, YC. Adaptive control of chaotic system with delay. Chin Phys Letters, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 477-479, 1998.
  6. Gao, F; Tian, YC. A double-controller scheme for controlling dominant delay processes. Proc of IFAC Symposium on Dynamics & Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS-5), pp. 443-448, Corfu, Greece, 1998.
  7. Tian, YC. Feedback control for a class of chaotic systems. Control and Decision, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 258-262, 1998. (in Chinese) 

Year 1997:

  1. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Extraction of delay information from chaotic time series based on information entropy. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 108, pp. 113-118, 1997. 
  2. Tian, YC; Gao, F. Simple delay systems with chaotic dynamics. In Proc IEEE COC'97 Conference, pp. 319-320, St Petersburg, Russia, 1997.
  3. ......more omitted...from 1988 to 1997....... 

(Last Updated on 6 October 2011)