YuMing Zhang
Professor and James R. Boyd
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Center for Manufacturing
University of Kentucky
Dr. Zhang is a Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds the James R. Boyd
Professorship in Electrical Engineering and directs the Welding Research
Laboratory and the Applied Sensing and Control Laboratory at the Center for
Manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering/Welding
Major (Advisors: Professor Lin Wu and Professor DingHua
Chen), and M.S. (Advisor: Professor GuangYu Wu) and
B.S. (Advisor: Professor GuangYu Wu) degrees in
Electrical Engineering/Control Major from the Harbin
Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the AWS, a
senior member of the IEEE and the SME, and a member of the ASME. He received
The Donald Julius Groen Prize from The Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, United Kingdom; The A. F. Davis Silver Medal award
(twice) and the Adams Memorial Membership Award from the American Welding
Society (AWS); and the 15th IFAC Triennial World Congress Poster Paper Prize
and Application Paper Honorable Mention from the International Federation of
Automatic Control (IFAC).
EE 307 Circuit
Analysis with Applications Spring 2000
EE 422G Signals
& Systems II Summer 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Fall
2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004,
Fall 2004
EE
499 EE Design: Control System Design Fall 2001
EE 611
Deterministic Systems Fall 1999, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall
2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
EE613 Optimal Control Fall 2008
EE
614 Adaptive Control Fall 2000 (as EE 699), Spring 2002 (as EE 699), Fall
2007
EE
599 Applied Control Spring 2001
EE/MFS/ME/MSE
699 Joining Processes Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2007
EE
699 Nonlinear Control Systems Fall 2006
EE
699 Adaptive Neurofuzzy Control Fall 1998
Dr. Zhang's research is
devoted to system identification, adaptive and predictive control, neurofuzzy modeling and control, machine vision systems,
and various sensors with applications to welding/manufacturing automation,
especially to the development of innovative electrical arc welding processes
with improved productivity/controllability. In addition to his numerous publications, he
has been awarded five U.S. patents
for his inventions on sensors, control methods, and processes for electrical
arc welding. Dr. Zhang's research has been supported by government agencies and
industrial sponsors.
NSF Fundamental Research:
Y.M
Zhang, R.G. Yang. “Machine-human cooperative control of
welding process,” National Science Foundation, CMMI-0927707, October 2009-Spet.
2012, $400,000.
Y.M.
Zhang. “Control of metal transfer at given arc variables,” National Science
Foundation, CMMI- 0825956, October 2008-Spet. 2011, $364,269.
Y.
M. Zhang. “Measurement and control of dynamic weld pool surface in gas metal
arc welding,” National Science Foundation, CMMI-0726123, October 2007-Spet.
2010, $352,365
Y.
M. Zhang. “Sensors: Measurement of dynamic weld
pool surface,” National Science Foundation, DMI-0527889, October 2005-September
2008, $288,811.
Y.
M. Zhang. “Double-electrode gas metal arc welding,” National
Science Foundation, DMI-0355324, April 2004-March 2007, $277,310.
Y.
M. Zhang. “Control of gas tungsten arc weld pool surface,”
National Science Foundation, DMI-0114982, October 2001-Sept. 2005, $266,032.
Y.
M. Zhang. “Double-sided arc welding,” National Science Foundation,
DMI-9812981, October 1998 – Sept. 2002, $281,988.
A.
T. Male and Y. M. Zhang, “Weld penetration control based on vision feedback of
weld pool geometrical appearance,” National Science Foundation, DMI-9634735,
April 1997 - September 1999, $179,986.
Applied Research aims at
commercialization of cutting-edge process, sensing, and control technologies to
provide next generation equipment and methods to improve/enhance weld quality,
welding productivity, and welder capability.
- List of PhD Degrees
Ming Jiang. Double-sided Arc Welding Process.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, August 2003.
(Co-Advisors: Alan T. Male and YuMing Zhang)
Joseph Michael Istre. Robust Generic Model
Control for Parameter Interval Systems Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Kentucky, June 2004.
Yuchi Lu. Control of Dynamic Keyhole
Welding Process. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Kentucky, September 2004.
Wei Lu. Robust Sensing and
control of Weld Pool Surface in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding and Its Modifications.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky,
October 2004.
Breton Elsworth Losch.
Modeling and Control of Double Sided Arc Welding Process.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, June
2005.
Gohar Mahmood Saeed. Three Dimensional Measurement
of Specular Surfaces and Its Application in Welding
Process. Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Nov. 9, 2005.
Ge Wang. Numerical
Analysis of Metal Transfer in Gas Metal Arc Welding. Department of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, June 4, 2007. (Co-Advisors:
George Huang and YuMing Zhang)
Zhenzhou Wang. Automated
High-Speed Monitoring of Metal Transfer for Real-Time Control.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, June
12, 2007.
Hongsheng Song. Machine
Vision Recognition of Three-Dimensional Specular
Surface for Gas Tungsten Arc Weld Pool. Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, July 24, 2007.
Kehai Li. Double-Electrode Gas Metal
Arc Welding: Process, Modeling and Control. Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Sept. 21, 2007.
Xiaodong Na. Nonlinear Identification
and Control: A Practical Solution and Its Application. Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Dec. 12, 2007. (co-advisors: Bruce Walcott and YuMing
Zhang)
Xiaopei Liu. Dual
Bypass Gas Metal Arc Welding Process and Control. Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky October 17, 2008.
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