Dr. Jinchuan Zheng   Lecturer

Qualifications

• PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2006
• M.Eng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2002
• B.Eng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 1999

Positions Held

• Lecturer, Robotics and Mechatronics, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, 2012–
• Staff Engineer, Western Digital Singapore HDD R&D, 2011–2012
• Research Academic, ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2005–2011

Areas of Expertise and Research

• Robust control, Nonlinear control
• Dual–stage actuation control, Vibration and noise control
• Control of magnetic disk drives
• Nano–positioning control using micro–actuators

PhD Research Opportunities

If you are interested in the following research topics, please email me directly for further information.

• Fast and robust control design using piezoelectric micro–actuators
• Nonlinear servo system for magnetic disk drives
• Design and control of nano–positioning X–Y stage
• Intelligent disturbance observer design and its applications

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Mohammad-Hossein Nikpanah	PhD	Robotics and Mech	2011	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne

Topics for Prospective Ph.D Students - View ALL topics for Dr. Jinchuan Zheng

Fast and robust control design using piezoelectric micro-actuators
The piezoelectric (PZT) micro-actuator can produce extremely small displacements in the range of subnanometer to a few hundreds micrometers.
This research will involve several sub-topics, Modeling, Robust control design and Experimental implementation of control design

Nonlinear servo system for magnetic disk drives
This research aims to explore novel nonlinear control methods to improve the Hard disk drives (HDDs) servo performance.

Design and control of nano–positioning X–Y stage
The XY positioning table uses a drive mechanism to move the platform horizontally along either the X or Y axis.
This research will involve two sub-projects, Mechanical design of a positioning XY stage with nanoscale accuracy and developing control algorithm to coordinate the actuators.

Intelligent disturbance observer design and its applications
This research will explore intelligent disturbance observers to complement the existing methods. More specifically, the outcomes will include but not limited to adaptive disturbance estimation over a broad frequency range and high bandwidth disturbance rejection.

Selected Publications

Journal papers

1. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “A unified dual–stage actuator control scheme for track seeking and following in hard disk drives,” IET Control Theory and Applications, under review.
2. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “Hysteresis and resonance compensation and saturation control of a piezoelectric actuator for fast nanopositioning,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, published online.
3. J. Zheng, A. Salton, and M. Fu, “Design and control of a rotary dual–stage actuator positioning system,” Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1003–1012, September, 2011.
4. A. Salton, Z. Chen, J. Zheng, and M. Fu, “Preview control of dual–stage actuator systems for super fast transition time”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 758–763, August, 2011.
5. J. Zheng, M. Fu, C. Du, Y. Wang, and L. Xie, “A factorization approach to sensitivity loop shaping for disturbance rejection in hard disk drives,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1220–1227, May 2010.
6. J. Zheng, W. Su, and M. Fu, “Dual–stage actuator control design using a doubly coprime factorization approach”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 339–348, June 2010.
7. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “A reset state estimator using an accelerometer for enhanced motion control with sensor quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Control SystemsTechnology, vol. 18, no. 1. pp. 79–90, January 2010.
8. Y. Guo, Y. Wang, L. Xie, and J. Zheng, “Stability analysis and design of reset systems: Theory and an application,” Automatica, vol. 45, pp. 492–497, 2009.
9. J. Zheng, M. Fu, Y. Wang, and C. Du, “Nonlinear tracking control for a hard disk drive dual–stage actuator system”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 510–518, October 2008.
10. J. Zheng, Y. Guo, M. Fu, Y. Wang, and L. Xie, “Development of an extended reset controller and its experimental demonstration,” IET Control Theory and Applications, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 866–874, 2008.
11. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “Nonlinear feedback control of a dual–stage actuator system for reduced settling time,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 717–725, July 2008.
12. J. Zheng, G. Guo, Y. Wang, and W. Wong, “Optimal narrow–band disturbance filter for PZT–actuated head positioning control on a Spinstand,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 3745–3751, November 2006.
13. J. Zheng, G. Guo, and Y. Wang, “Identification and decentralized control of a dual–actuator hard disk drive system,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 2515–2521, September 2005.

Conference papers

1. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “High–bandwidth control design for a piezoelectric nanopositioning stage,” Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Santiago, Chile, 2011.
2. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “Nested switching control design for fast PZT actuated nanopositioning,” Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan Italy, August 2011.
3. A. Salton, Z. Chen, J. Zheng, and M. Fu, “Continuous preview control of dual–stage actuator systems for reduced transition time,” Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, December, 2010.
4. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “A unified dual–stage actuator control scheme for track seeking and following in hard disk drives,” Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, 2010.
5. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “A reset kinematic state estimator to suppress sensor quantization for enhanced position tracking control,” Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 2009.
6. J. Zheng, A. Salton, and M. Fu, “ A novel rotary dual–stage actuator positioner,” Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 2009.
7. J. Zheng, M. Fu, C. Du, Y. Wang and L. Xie, “Sensitivity loop shaping for disturbance rejection in hard disk drives,” Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2009.
8. J. Zheng, W. Su, and M. Fu, “Two–degree–of–freedom control of a dual–stage actuator positioning system for short–span tracking,” Proceedings of the 28th American Control Conference, Missouri, USA, June 2009.
9. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “A reset state estimator for linear systems to suppress sensor quantization effects.” Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul Korea, July 2008.
10. J. Zheng, Y. Guo, M. Fu, Y. Wang, and L. Xie, “Improved reset control design for a PZT positioning stage,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control and Applications, Singapore, May 2007.
11. J. Zheng and M. Fu, “Nonlinear tracking control for dual–stage actuator systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference, New York, USA, July 2007.
12. Y. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Zheng, and L. Xie, “Stability analysis, design and application of reset control systems.” Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Control and Automation, Guangzhou, China, May 2007.
13. J. Zheng, M. Fu, Y. Wang, and C. Du, “Nonlinear tracking control for a hard disk drive dual–stage actuator systems,” Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Control and Automation, Guangzhou, China, May 2007.
14. J. Zheng, G. Guo, Y. Wang, and M. Fu, “A Generalized disturbance filter design and its applications to a Spinstand servo system with microactuator,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December 2006.
15. J. Zheng, C. Du, G. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, Q. Li, and B. Hredzak, “Phase lead peak filter method to high TPI servo track writer with microactuators,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2006.
16. J. Zheng, G. Guo, and Y. Wang, “Nonlinear PID control of linear plants for improved disturbance rejection,” Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July 2005.
17. J. Zheng, G. Guo and Y. Wang, “Feedforward decoupling control design for dual–actuator system in hard disk drives,” Proceedings of the 9th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference, Anaheim, CA USA, January 2004.
18. J. Zheng, G. Guo and Y. Wang, “Modeling and control design of dual–actuator system for hard disk drives,” Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive System, Singapore, November 2003.