Dr. Jing Wang
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Biography
Jing Wang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Illinois State University. Prior to this, he served in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bradley University, Peoria, IL, where he was an Assistant Professor from 2014 to 2018, an Associate Professor from 2018 to 2024, and a Professor in 2024. From 2007 to 2014, he held positions as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL. Between 2002 and 2007, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (1997-1999), and at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore (1999-2002).
He has authored a book published by Springer and over 150 papers, along with four book chapters, primarily focused on nonlinear control, cooperative control, adaptive neural control, robotics, and optimization. His current research interests encompass systems and controls, the Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems, distributed control, data-driven control and machine learning, distributed optimization, and control applications in robotics, power network, and communication networks. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Current Courses
EGR 130.003 Introduction to Engineering Design
EGR 130.007 Introduction to Engineering Design
Teaching Interests & Areas
Signals and Systems, Control Systems, Intro to Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems, Electric Circuits, Robotics, Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Data-Driven Control, Electronics, Digital Control, Optimization Methods, Nonlinear Systems, Adaptive Learning
Research Interests & Areas
Control and Robotics: Motion planning and cooperative control of UAVs, UGVs and UUVs, Cooperative localization of multi-robots, Visual servoing, Sensor fusion
Distributed Optimization and Learning: Coordination of multiagent systems, Deep learning and predictive control, Approximate dynamic programming and reinforcement learning; Extremum Seeking Control
Nonlinear Systems and Control Theory: Nonlinear control, Adaptive control, Optimal adaptive control, Robust control
Control Applications: Cyber Security Control, IoT, QoS-Aware resource allocation in NFV/SDN-Enabled Net- works, TCP/AQM Congestion Control, Control of cyber-physical Systems, Distributed sensor networks, Satellite communication network; Optimization and control of Microgrids, Control of DC/DC and DC/AC Converters
Book, Authored
Emergent Behavior Detection and Task Coordination for Multiagent Systems: A distributed estimation and control approach
Jing Wang.
(2021), 397, Springer Nature
Book, Chapter
Leaderless cooperative formation control of autonomous mobile robots under limited communication range constraints
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
(2007), 79--104, Cooperative Systems: Control and Optimization, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin, Heidelberg
Adaptive friction compensation for servo mechanisms
Jing Wang, SS Ge, TH Lee.
(2001), 211--248, Adaptive control of nonsmooth dynamic systems, Springer London London
Conference Proceeding
Improving Flight of Crazyflie Quadcopters Using Online Reinforcement Learning
Steven Comandini, Drew Shambaugh, Yufeng Lu, Jing Wang.
6--9, (2023)
Optimal Deployment and Orchestration of Multiple Service Function Chains in 5G Networks
Jing Wang, Amjad Soomro.
170--175, (2023)
A distributed policy gradient algorithm for optimal coordination of mobile sensor networks
Jing Wang, Khanh Pham.
1--4, (2022)
Near-Optimal Synchronization of Multiple Robot Carts Using Online Reinforcement Learning
Jakob Harig, Ryan Russell, Jing Wang, Yufeng Lu.
047--052, (2022)
Speech intelligibility enhancement using microphone array via intra-vehicular beamforming
Devin McDonald, Joseph Mesnard, Yufeng Lu, Jing Wang.
1--5, (2022)
Consensus-based value iteration for multiagent cooperative control
Jing Wang, Elias Wilson, Alvaro Velasquez.
6659--6664, (2021)
A Pulse-Width Modulation Based Nonlinear Control for DC-DC Buck Converters with Perturbed Input Source and Load Current
Christopher Leonard, Baylor Howard, Jing Wang.
1, 1--6, (2020)
Design of nonlinear control for active queue management in TCP satellite communication networks
Jing Wang, Khanh Pham.
1--9, (2020)
Distributed localization and control of quadrotor UAVs using ultra-wideband sensors
Bryce Mack, Christopher Noe, Trevor Rice, In Soo Ahn, Jing Wang.
1--9, (2019)
Autonomous vision-based target detection using unmanned aerial vehicle
Jeff Deeds, Zach Engstrom, Caleb Gill, Zack Wood, Jing Wang, In Soo Ahn, Yufeng Lu.
1078--1081, (2018)
Distributed Hierarchical Control of Quadrotor UAVs: Design and Experimental Validation
Bryce Mack, Christopher Noe, Trevor Rice, In Soo Ahn, Jing Wang.
1--3, (2018)
Distributed estimation of moving targets with unknown dynamics
Jing Wang.
1--6, (2018)
Distributed vision-based target tracking control using multiple mobile robots
Anthony Le, Ryan Clue, Jing Wang, In Soo Ahn.
0471--0476, (2018)
Resilient detection of multiple targets using a distributed algorithm with limited information sharing
Jing Wang, In Soo Ahn, Yufeng Lu, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich.
10652, 90--100, (2018)
A multiagent reinforcement learning control approach to environment exploration
Mohammad S Imtiaz, Jing Wang.
1--5, (2017)
Adaptive cooperative tracking control for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems
Jing Wang.
450--455, (2017)
Formation control for multiagent systems in realistic communication environments
Jing Wang, In Soo Ahn, Yufeng Lu, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich.
1--2, (2017)
Modeling and verifying the communication and control of a fleet of collaborative autonomous underwater vehicles
Hong Liu, Ruofa Cheng, Tianyu Yang, Jing Wang.
3197--3202, (2017)
A consensus control with application to heavy haul trains based on switched hierarchical LQR
Rui Zhang, Jun Peng, Weirong Liu, Bin Chen, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang.
342--348, (2016)
An explicit predictive current-sharing control for parallel charging systems with nonlinear dynamics
Jiangang Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jun Peng, Jing Wang, Liran Li.
6821--6826, (2016)
Effects of jamming on a multi-agent flocking model with distributed estimation of global features
Zhaoyang Fu, Thomas Yang, Jing Wang.
622--625, (2016)
Experiments of distributed control for multiple mobile robots with limited sensing/communication capacity
Gregory Bock, Ryan Hendrickson, Jared Lamkin, Brittany Dhall, Jing Wang, In Soo Ahn.
0559--0564, (2016)
Model checking for the fault tolerance of collaborative AUVs
Hong Liu, Tianyu Yang, Jing Wang.
244--245, (2016)
On formalization of emergent behaviors in multiagent systems with limited interactions
Taskia A Khan, Jing Wang.
0553--0558, (2016)
A distributed deployment algorithm for mobile robotic agents with limited sensing/communication ranges
Jing Wang, Christopher Smith, Gennady Staskevich, Brian Abbe.
530--535, (2015)
An adaptive parallel charging system for energy-storage urban rails
Heng Li, Jun Peng, Jing Wang, Weirong Liu, Zhiwu Huang.
1573--1578, (2015)
Approximate policy iteration for cooperative control of multiagent systems under limited sensing/communications
Jing Wang, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich, Brian Abbe.
(2015)
Distributed cooperative voltage equalization for series-connected super-capacitors
Jiangang Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jun Peng, Jing Wang.
4523--4528, (2015)
Experimental validation of distributed cooperative control for mobile agents with switching topologies and time-delays
Junzhen Shao, Jing Wang, Tianyu Yang.
512--517, (2014)
Formation control of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots with limited information of a desired trajectory
Jing Wang, Morrison Obeng, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich, Brian Abbe.
550--555, (2014)
A unified optimization method for real-time trajectory generation of mobile robots with kinodynamic constraints in dynamic environment
Wenhao Luo, Jun Peng, Weirong Liu, Jing Wang, Wentao Yu.
112--118, (2013)
An improved parameterized approach for real time optimal motion planning of AUV moving in dynamic environment
Wenhao Luo, Jun Peng, Jing Wang.
103--108, (2013)
Discontinuous cooperative control for consensus of multiagent systems with switching topologies and time-delays
Jing Wang, Morrison Obeng, Zhihua Qu, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich, Brian Abbe.
7333--7338, (2013)
Flocking control for multi-agent systems with communication optimization
Heng Li, Jun Peng, Weirong Liu, Jing Wang, Jiangang Liu, Zhiwu Huang.
2056--2061, (2013)
Image-based path following and target tracking control for a mobile robot
Daniel Kulas, Jing Wang, Morrison Obeng, Xiaohe Wu.
1--6, (2013)
Optimal real-time trajectory planning for a fixed wing vehicle in 3D dynamic environment
Wenhao Luo, Jun Peng, Jing Wang.
710--715, (2013)
Cooperative control and communication optimization for networked multi-agent systems with nonholonomic constraints
Weirong Liu, Feng Zhou, Heng Li, Jianming Xiao, Jing Wang, Mengfei Wen, Jun Peng.
1633--1637, (2012)
Distributed formation control for a cooperative multi-agent system using potential function and extremum seeking algorithm
Heng Li, Jun Peng, Jianming Xiao, Feng Zhou, Weirong Liu, Jing Wang.
1893--1898, (2012)
Distributed formation control for nonholonomic mobile robots
Jing Wang, Morrison S Obeng.
389--392, (2012)
A distributed cooperative steering control with application to nonholonomic robots
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu, Morrison S Obeng.
4571--4576, (2010)
Nonlinear positive observer design for positive dynamical systems
Ben Brian, Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu.
6231--6237, (2010)
Project-centered pedagogy and practice in teaching microprocessor and embedded systems design to undergraduate students
Xiaohe Wu, Morrision Obeng, Jing Wang.
102--105, (2010)
Adaptive NN stabilization of uncertain nonholonomic mechanical systems
Jing Wang, Morrison S Obeng, Xiaohe Wu.
1--6, (2008)
Lyapunov design of cooperative control and its application to the consensus problem
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Jiangmin Chunyu.
100--107, (2007)
Nonlinear cooperative control for consensus of nonlinear and heterogeneous systems
Zhihua Qu, Jiangmin Chunyu, Jing Wang.
2301--2308, (2007)
Quadratic lyapunov functions for cooperative control of networked systems
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Xin Li.
416--421, (2007)
Cascaded feedback linearization and its application to stabilization of nonholonomic systems
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Jeffrey Martin.
6--pp, (2006)
Continuous Control Designs for Stabilizing Chained Systems; A Global State Scaling Transformation and A Time Scaling Method
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull, Jeffrey Martin.
3283--3290, (2006)
Cooperative control design and stability analysis for multi-agent systems with communication delays
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull, Jeffrey Martin.
970--975, (2006)
Output-feedback near-optimal control of chained systems
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Clinton E Plaisted, Richard A Hull.
6--pp, (2006)
A real-time optimized path planning for a fixed wing vehicle flying in a dynamic and uncertain environment
Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
96--102, (2005)
An optimal and real-time solution to parameterized mobile robot trajectories in the presence of moving obstacles
Jian Yang, Abdelhay Daoui, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
4412--4417, (2005)
Comparison of Optimal Solutions to Real-Time Path Planning for a Mobile Vehicle
Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
5862, (2005)
Multi-objective cooperative control of dynamical systems
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
41--52, (2005)
Products of row stochastic matrices and their applications to cooperative control for autonomous mobile robots
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
1066--1071, (2005)
A global-stabilizing near-optimal control for real-time trajectory tracking of nonholonomic chained systems
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Clinton E Plaisted.
1, 843--848, (2004)
Cooperative control of dynamical systems with application to mobile robot formation
Z Qu, Jing Wang, RA Hull.
617, (2004)
Strategies for and analytical solutions to near-optimal formation control of nonholonomic mobile vehicles
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Clinton Plaisted.
5425, (2004)
A near optimal tracking control of dynamic nonholonomic systems
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu.
1, 202--207, (2003)
A new performance-based motion planner for nonholonomic mobile robots
Yi Guo, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang.
(2003)
Robust adaptive control of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with nonlinear parameterization
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu.
4, 3026--3031, (2003)
Adaptive NN control of dynamic systems with unknown dynamic friction
SS Ge, Tong Heng Lee, Jin Wang.
2, 1760--1765, (2000)
A reduced-order analytical solution to mobile robot trajectory generation in the presence of moving obstacles
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu, Yi Guo, Jian Yang.
5, 4301--4307
Journal Article
A Distributed Consensus Scenario Approach to Optimization and Control With Uncertainties
Jing Wang, Steven Drager.
IEEE Access, (2025)
Pinning-based switching control for SOC balancing of supercapacitors: A switched system approach
Fei Li, Taozhen Chang, Heng Li, Peinan He, Wei He, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang.
Journal of Energy Storage, 109, 115077, (2025)
AI-enabled bumpless transfer control strategy for legged robot with hybrid energy storage system
Zhiwu Huang, Zi Yu, Hui Peng, Zixuan Wang, Xiaokang Dai, Weirong Liu, Jing Wang.
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, (2024)
Distributed cooperative cruise control for high-speed trains with multi-objective optimization
Zhiwu Huang, Pingping Wang, Feng Zhou, Bin Chen, Yue Wu, Yongjie Liu, Fei Li, Jing Wang, Jun Peng.
IET Control Theory \& Applications, 16 (16), 1645--1656, (2022)
A predictive control method to improve pressure tracking precision and reduce valve switching for pneumatic brake systems
Rui Zhang, Jun Peng, Heng Li, Bin Chen, Weirong Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang.
IET Control Theory \& Applications, 15 (10), 1389--1403, (2021)
Adaptive slip ratio estimation for active braking control of high-speed trains
Bin Chen, Zhiwu Huang, Rui Zhang, Fu Jiang, Weirong Liu, Heng Li, Jing Wang, Jun Peng.
ISA transactions, 112, 302--314, (2021)
Data-driven Koopman model predictive control for optimal operation of high-speed trains
Bin Chen, Zhiwu Huang, Rui Zhang, Weirong Liu, Heng Li, Jing Wang, Yunsheng Fan, Jun Peng.
Ieee Access, 9, 82233--82248, (2021)
Cooperative CC--CV charging of supercapacitors using multicharger systems
Heng Li, Xiaoyong Zhang, Jun Peng, Jianping He, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67 (12), 10497--10508, (2020)
Distributed control for state-of-energy balancing of supercapacitor modules in light rail vehicles
Chengzhang Lyu, Zhiwu Huang, Heng Li, Hongtao Liao, Yingze Yang, Jun Peng, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 68 (5), 4447--4457, (2019)
Observer-driven charging of supercapacitors
Heng Li, Jun Peng, Jianping He, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16 (5), 3439--3450, (2019)
Pinning-based switching control of cyber-physical supercapacitor energy storage systems
Heng Li, Jun Peng, Jianping He, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang, Liang He, Jianping Pan.
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28 (4), 1520--1533, (2019)
An approximate distributed gradient estimation method for networked system optimization under limited communications
Jing Wang, Khanh D Pham.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 50 (12), 5142--5151, (2018)
Synchronized cell-balancing charging of supercapacitors: A consensus-based approach
Heng Li, Jun Peng, Jianping He, Zhiwu Huang, Jianping Pan, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 65 (10), 8030--8040, (2018)
A distributed least-squares algorithm in wireless sensor networks with unknown and limited communications
Jing Wang, In Soo Ahn, Yufeng Lu, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich.
International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR), 8 (3), 15--36, (2017)
Approximately adaptive neural cooperative control for nonlinear multiagent systems with performance guarantee
Jing Wang, Tianyu Yang, Gennady Staskevich, Brian Abbe.
International Journal of Systems Science, 48 (5), 909--920, (2017)
Decentralized event-triggered cooperative control for multi-agent systems with uncertain dynamics using local estimators
Feng Zhou, Zhiwu Huang, Yingze Yang, Jing Wang, Liran Li, Jun Peng.
Neurocomputing, 237, 388--396, (2017)
Distributed coordinated tracking control for a class of uncertain multiagent systems
Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62 (7), 3423--3429, (2016)
A suboptimal and analytical solution to mobile robot trajectory generation amidst moving obstacles
Jun Peng, Wenhao Luo, Weirong Liu, Wentao Yu, Jing Wang.
Autonomous Robots, 39 (1), 1--23, (2015)
Distributed Cooperative Current-Sharing Control of Parallel Chargers Using Feedback Linearization
Jiangang Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang, Jun Peng, Weirong Liu.
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014 (1), 636784, (2014)
Decentralized control of heavy-haul trains with input constraints and communication delays
Kai Gao, Zhiwu Huang, Jing Wang, Jun Peng, Weirong Liu.
Control Engineering Practice, 21 (4), 420--427, (2013)
Target attraction-based ant colony algorithm for mobile robots in rescue missions
Xiaoyong Zhang, Jun Peng, Huosheng Hu, Kuo-Chi Lin, Jing Wang.
International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 17 (2), 133--142, (2012)
A NEW TRAJECTORY GENERATION AND TRACKING CONTROL DESIGN FOR NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS USING COMPLEX POTENTIALS
Jing Wang, Morrison S Obeng, Xiaohe Wu.
Journal of Nonlinear Systems and Applications, 179, 188, (2011)
Comparison of optimal solutions to real-time path planning for a mobile vehicle
Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Kevin Conrad.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans, 40 (4), 721--731, (2010)
Control of nonholonomic systems
Jing Wang.
(2010)
Approximation based adaptive tracking control of uncertain nonholonomic mechanical systems
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu, Morrison S Obeng, Xiaohe Wu.
Control and intelligent systems, 37 (4), 204, (2009)
Continuous and inverse optimal control designs for chained systems: A global state-scaling transformation and a time-scaling method
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull, Jeffrey Martin.
Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 30 (1), 1--25, (2009)
Real-time optimized trajectory planning for a fixed-wing vehicle flying in a dynamic environment
Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
Journal of aerospace engineering, 22 (4), 331--341, (2009)
Robust adaptive control of a class of nonlinearly parameterised time-varying uncertain systems
Jing Wang, Z Qu.
IET Control Theory \& Applications, 3 (6), 617--630, (2009)
Cooperative control of dynamical systems with application to autonomous vehicles
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Richard A Hull.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 53 (4), 894--911, (2008)
Cascaded feedback linearization and its application to stabilization of nonholonomic systems
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu, Richard A Hull, Jeffrey Martin.
Systems \& control letters, 56 (4), 285--295, (2007)
Real-time obstacles avoidance for vehicles in the urban grand challenge
Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Kevin L Conrad, Richard A Hull.
Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 4 (12), 1117--1133, (2007)
A control-design-based solution to robotic ecology: Autonomy of achieving cooperative behavior from a high-level astronaut command
Jing Wang, Zhihua Qu, Curtis M Ihlefeld, Richard A Hull.
Autonomous Robots, 20 (2), 97--112, (2006)
Global-stabilizing near-optimal control design for nonholonomic chained systems
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Clinton E Plaisted, Richard A Hull.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51 (9), 1440--1456, (2006)
Globally stabilizing adaptive control design for nonlinearly-parameterized systems
Zhihua Qu, Richard A Hull, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51 (6), 1073--1079, (2006)
Research on High-Speed Algorithm to Generate Progressive Mesh with Multi-Attributes
Qi-hui HAO, Tong-de TAN, Run-zhi LI, Hong-ling ZHAO, Jing Wang.
Computer Technology and Development, 11, 014, (2006)
A new analytical solution to mobile robot trajectory generation in the presence of moving obstacles
Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang, Clinton E Plaisted.
IEEE transactions on robotics, 20 (6), 978--993, (2004)
An optimal solution to mobile robot trajectory generation in the presence of moving obstacles
Jing Wang, Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu.
(2004)
Robust adaptive tracking for time-varying uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown control coefficients
Shuzhi Sam Ge, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48 (8), 1463--1469, (2003)
Robust adaptive neural control for a class of perturbed strict feedback nonlinear systems
Shuzhi Sam Ge, Jing Wang.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13 (6), 1409--1419, (2002)
Adaptive robust stabilization of dynamic nonholonomic chained systems
Shuzhi Sam Ge, Jing Wang, Tong Heng Lee, GY Zhou.
Journal of Robotic Systems, 18 (3), 119--133, (2001)
Indirect adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control: Part I: fuzzy switching
Jing Wang, AB Rad, PT Chan.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 122 (1), 21--30, (2001)
Indirect adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control: Part II: parameter projection and supervisory control
PT Chan, AB Rad, Jing Wang.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 122 (1), 31--43, (2001)
An Optimal Design Approach for Fuzzy System Based on Genetic Algorithm
Jing Wang, Y. Li, ZX Cai.
CONTROL THEORY \& APPLICATIONS, 5, (1999)
Direct fuzzy neural control with application to automatic train operation
Jing Wang.
控制理论与应用, 15 (3), (1998)
Other
Emergent Behavior Detection and Task Coordination for Multiagent Systems: A distributed estimation and control approach
Jing Wang.
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030868925, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, ISBN 978-3-030-86892-5, (2022)