Ying Shang

Ying Shang
, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Engineering
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL 62026

Office: EB 3055
Email:yshang@siue.edu
Phone: 618-650-2800
Fax: 618-650-3374


Education:

University of Notre Dame, USA, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2006
University of Notre Dame, USA, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2003
Shandong University, China, B.S. in Control Engineering, 1998




Research:

Discrete-event systems in max-plus algebra: a link of overview

Application areas:
         High throughput screening in drug discovery
         Queueing networks
         Manufacturing system scheduling
         Transportation systems

Software: MinMaxGD-a library to handle periodic series in dioid of formal series. There are a C++ version and an interface with Scicoslab.
 

Publications:

  • Laurent Hardouin, Ying Shang, Carlos Andrey Maia, Bertrand Cottenceau, "Observer-based controller for max-plus linear systems," IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, to appear. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Carlos Andrey Maia, "Robust controllers in disturbance decoupling of uncertain max-plus linear systems: An application to a high througput screening system for drug discovery", The 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems(WODES'16), Xi'An, China, May 30-June 1, 2016. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Carlos Andrey Maia, "An  integrated control strategy in disturbance decoupling of max-plus linear systems with applications to a high throughput screening system". Automatica 63, 2016, pp. 338-348. [pdf] http://perso-laris.univ-angers.fr/~lhommeau/automatica.html
  • Ying Shang, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Carlos Andrey Maia, "An integrated control strategy in disturbance decoupling of max-plus linear systems with applications to a high throughput screening system in drug discovery". The 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, Dec. 15-17, 2014. pp. 5143-5148. [pdf]
  • Vinicius Goncalves Mariano, Carlos Andrey Maia, Laurent Hardouin, Ying Shang. "An Observer for tropical linear event-invariant dynamical systems". The 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, Dec. 15-17, 2014. pp. 5967-5972. [pdf]  
  • Ying Shang, "Towards geometric control of max-plus linear systems with applications to queueing networks". International Journal of Systems Science, pp. 34-49, Volume 44, Issue 1, 2013. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Carlos Andrey Maia, "Open-loop controller to solve the disturbance decoupling problem for max-plus linear systems". 2013 European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, July 17-19, 2013. pp. 125-130. [pdf] Simulation: Disturbance Decoupling for a Timed Event Graph.
  • Ying Shang, Michael Sain, "Fixed zeros in the model matching problem for systems over semirings". Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 434, Issue 1, pp. 18-43, 2011. [pdf]
  • Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Ying Shang, "Towards geometric control of max-plus linear systems with applications to manufacturing networks". The 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, Dec. 12-15, 2011. pp. 1149 - 1154. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang,"Robust invariance in uncertain discrete event systems with applications to transportation networks". IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Volume 27, No. 2, pp. 145-164, 2010. [pdf]
  • Yoon Kah Leow, Ying Shang, "Mobile robot tracking in wireless sensor networks". Computer in Education Journal, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 36-44, 2010. [pdf]
  • Kurt E. Colthier, Ying Shang, "A geometric approach for robotic arm kinematics with hardware design, electrical design, and implementation". Journal of Robotics, 2010. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, "A frequency-domain approach for max-plus linear systems". The 10th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'10), Berlin, Germany, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2010. [pdf    
  • Ying Shang, Michael K. Sain, "Fixed poles in the model matching problem for systems over semirings,” Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 430, Issue 8, pp.2368-2388, 2009. [pdf] 
  • Ying Shang, "Robust invariance in uncertain discrete-event systems with applications to transportation networks". American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA, June 10-12, 2009, pp. 4747-4753. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Michael K. Sain, "Systems over a semiring: realization and decoupling". Advances in Statistical Control, Algebraic Systems Theory, and Dynamic Systems Characteristics, ed. by C.-H. Won et al, pp. 129-143, 2008. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Michael K. Sain, "Fixed zeros in the model matching problem for systems over a semiring". The 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 12-14, 2007. pp.3381-3386. [pdf]    
  • Ying Shang, Michael K. Sain, "Fixed poles in the model matching problem for systems over a semiring". American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 12-14, 2007. pp.3381-3386. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Michael K. Sain, "On Zero semimodules of linear systems over semirings with applications to queueing systems". American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005. pp. 225-230. [pdf] 
     
  • Patrick M. Sain, Ying Shang, Michael K. Sain, "Reachability analysis of N-squared state charts over a Boolean semiring applied to hysteric discrete event structural control model". American Control Conference, Portland, OR,  June 8-10, 2005. pp. 3072-3077.[pdf]   
  • Ying Shang, "The maximal robust controlled invariant sets for a class of uncertain switchedsystems". American Control Conference, Boston, June 30-July 2, 2004. pp. 5195-5196. [pdf]
  • Ying Shang, Michael D. Lemmon, "The controlled composition of hybrid automata through the  the use of inner viability kernel." The 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems, Notre Dame, IN, Aug. 2002. [pdf]


Master Thesis:

  • Efegbare O. Efenedo, Observer-based controller for max-plus linear systems, 2016.
  • Adetola Oke, Disturbance decoupling problem of high throughput screening in drug discovery, 2016.
  • Jennifer Melton, GUI window design using MATLAB. 2012.
  • Asha Jyothi Nimmakayala, Development of control system applications using MATLAB Guide tool. 2012.
  • Suman Raju Tamalapakula, A web-based interface of control system application using MATLAB Builder NE, 2012. 
  • Kurt Clothier, A novel approach for solving robotic arm kinematics, 2010.
  • Yoon Kah Leow, "Pursuer and Evader Game in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2009.



Teaching:

  • ECE 210 Circuit Analysis I
  • ECE 211 Circuit Analysis II
  • ECE 351 Signals and Systems
  • ECE 352 Engineering Probability and Statistics
  • ECE 365 Control Systems
  • ECE 465 Control Systems Design
  • ECE 466 Digital Control
  • ECE 562/ME 550 Modern Control
  • ECE 592/ME 592 Robust Control
  • ECE 595 Master Project on Discrete-Event Systems
  • ECE 599 Master Thesis on Discrete-Event Systems
  • All course materials are on: https://bb.siue.edu