Contact

• workRoom C47 Advanced Manufacturing Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work+44(0) 1159515998
• Tianyi.Zeng@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr. Tianyi Zeng is an Assistant Professor in Intelligent Manufacturing for Advanced Manufacturing with the Rolls-Royce UTC in Manufacturing and On-wing Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2020. He is an Associate Fellow of HEA.

Expertise Summary

Tianyi's research interests include nonlinear system control, plant/controller co-design, robotic control, and wave energy converter control and optimization.

Currently, his work focuses on robotics design and control of the on-wing inspection, maintenance, and repair.

Research Summary

Tianyi is currently working with Rolls-Royce, designing controllers of robots for automatic inspection and repair in confined spaces and hazardous, such as aero-engines, and nuclear plants.

Recent Publications

• YAO ZHANG, TIANYI ZENG, YANNING GUO and GUANGFU MA, 2023. Mars powered descent phase guidance law based on reinforcement learning for collision avoidance International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
• TIANYI ZENG, ABDELKHALICK MOHAMMAD, ANDRES GAMEROS MADRIGAL, DRAGOS AXINTE and MAX KEEDWELL, 2023. A Robust Human–Robot Collaborative Control Approach Based on Model Predictive Control IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
• SAMUEL WILD, TIANYI ZENG, ABDELKHALICK MOHAMMAD, JOHN BILLINGHAM and DRAGOS AXINTE, 2023. Efficient and Scalable Inverse Kinematics for Continuum Robots IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(1), 375 - 381
• YAO ZHANG, TIANYI ZENG and ZHIWEI GAO, 2022. Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of Energy Maximization for Wave Energy Converters IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. 13(3), 1771-1778

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• YAO ZHANG, TIANYI ZENG, YANNING GUO and GUANGFU MA, 2023. Mars powered descent phase guidance law based on reinforcement learning for collision avoidance International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
• TIANYI ZENG, ABDELKHALICK MOHAMMAD, ANDRES GAMEROS MADRIGAL, DRAGOS AXINTE and MAX KEEDWELL, 2023. A Robust Human–Robot Collaborative Control Approach Based on Model Predictive Control IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
• SAMUEL WILD, TIANYI ZENG, ABDELKHALICK MOHAMMAD, JOHN BILLINGHAM and DRAGOS AXINTE, 2023. Efficient and Scalable Inverse Kinematics for Continuum Robots IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(1), 375 - 381
• YAO ZHANG, TIANYI ZENG and ZHIWEI GAO, 2022. Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of Energy Maximization for Wave Energy Converters IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. 13(3), 1771-1778
• ZENG, TIANYI, REN, XUEMEI and ZHANG, YAO, 2020. Fixed-Time Sliding Mode Control and High-Gain Nonlinearity Compensation for Dual-Motor Driving System IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS. 16(6), 4090-4098
• TIANYI ZENG, XUEMEI REN, YAO ZHANG, GUANG LI and JING NA, 2019. An integrated optimal design for guaranteed cost control of motor driving system with uncertainty IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 24(6), 2606-2615
• ZENG, TIANYI, REN, XUEMEI and ZHANG, YAO, 2019. Fixed-time sliding mode control based plant/controller co-design of dual-motor driving system INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE. 50(9), 1847-1859
• ZHANG, YAO, VEPA, RANJAN, LI, GUANG and ZENG, TIANYI, 2019. Mars Powered Descent Phase Guidance Design Based on Fixed-Time Stabilization Technique IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS. 55(4), 2001-2011
• ZENG, TIANYI, REN, XUEMEI and ZHANG, YAO, 2018. Adaptive Finite-Time Disturbance Observer Based Sliding Mode Control for Dual-Motor Driving System COMPLEXITY.
• ZHANG, YAO, GUO, YANNING, MA, GUANGFU and ZENG, TIANYI, 2017. Collision avoidance ZEM/ZEV optimal feedback guidance for powered descent phase of landing on Mars ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH. 59(6), 1514-1525
• WANG, SHUBO, REN, XUEMEI, NA, JING and ZENG, TIANYI, 2017. Extended-State-Observer-Based Funnel Control for Nonlinear Servomechanisms With Prescribed Tracking Performance IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. 14(1), 98-108