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Ming Liu
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Advanced stochastic control systems with engineering applications
2014
1 School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China 2 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 3 Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, 4898 Grimstad, Norway 4 Institute of Automation and Complex Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany 5 College of Automation, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
N-Heterocyclic carbenes from ylides of indolyl-imidazolium, azaindolyl-imidazolium, and indolyl-triazolium salts, and their borane adducts
2014
Abstract Indol-2-yl-imidazolium salts were deprotonated at N1 of the indole ring to give ylides. Their tautomeric N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) were trapped by sulfur to give imidazole-2-thiones. Treatment of the ylides with triethylborane resulted in the formation of zwitterionic borane adducts. An analogous sequence of reactions was performed with 8-azaindol-2-yl-imidazolium salts, which served as precursor to prepare first representatives of a new heterocyclic ring system on reaction of their NHC-tautomers with triethylborane. Similarly, an indol-2-yl-1,2,4-triazolium salt was examined with respect to ylide–NHC tautomerism and trapping reactions. A nucleophilic ring transformation of in…
Sampled-Data Control of Spacecraft Rendezvous with Discontinuous Lyapunov Approach
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/814271 Open Access This paper investigates the sampled-data stabilization problem of spacecraft relative positional holding with improved Lyapunov function approach. The classical Clohessy-Wiltshire equation is adopted to describe the relative dynamic model. The relative position holding problem is converted into an output tracking control problem using sampling signals. A time-dependent discontinuous Lyapunov functionals approach is developed, which will lead to essentially less conservative results for the stability analysis and control…
State feedback control against sensor faults for Lipschitz nonlinear systems via new sliding mode observer techniques
2011
This paper investigates the problem of simultaneous state and fault estimation and observer-based fault tolerant controller design for Lipschitz nonlinear systems with sensor failure. A new estimation technique is presented in this paper to deal with this design problem. In the proposed approaches, the original system is first augmented by a descriptor model transformation, then a new Proportional and Derivative sliding mode observer technique is developed to obtain accurate estimations of both system states and sensor faults. The designing observer is generalized from the PD observer in [3], but is not a trivial extension. Based on the state estimates, a observer-based control strategy is …
Observer-based stabilization of spacecraft rendezvous with variable sampling and sensor nonlinearity
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/902452 Open Access This paper addresses the observer-based control problem of spacecraft rendezvous with nonuniform sampling period. The relative dynamic model is based on the classical Clohessy-Wiltshire equation, and sensor nonlinearity and sampling are considered together in a unified framework. The purpose of this paper is to perform an observer-based controller synthesis by using sampled and saturated output measurements, such that the resulting closed-loop system is exponentially stable. A time-dependent Lyapunov functional is devel…
Learning Flow-Based Feature Warping for Face Frontalization with Illumination Inconsistent Supervision
2020
Despite recent advances in deep learning-based face frontalization methods, photo-realistic and illumination preserving frontal face synthesis is still challenging due to large pose and illumination discrepancy during training. We propose a novel Flow-based Feature Warping Model (FFWM) which can learn to synthesize photo-realistic and illumination preserving frontal images with illumination inconsistent supervision. Specifically, an Illumination Preserving Module (IPM) is proposed to learn illumination preserving image synthesis from illumination inconsistent image pairs. IPM includes two pathways which collaborate to ensure the synthesized frontal images are illumination preserving and wit…
Robust control of stochastic systems against bounded disturbances with application to flight control
2014
This paper investigates the problems of state observer design and observer-based integral sliding-mode control (SMC) for a class of Itô stochastic systems subject to simultaneous input and output disturbances. A new type of sliding-mode-based descriptor observer method is developed to approximate the system state and disturbance vectors. An integral-type SMC scheme is proposed based on the state estimation to stabilize the overall system. The main contributions of this approach are as follows: 1) The desired estimations of state and disturbance vectors can be obtained simultaneously, and 2) in the designed sliding-mode observer, the integral term of the Itô stochastic noise is eliminated …
Nickel(II) complexes with sterically hindered 5,6,7-trihydroquinoline derivatives selectively dimerizing ethylene to 1-butene
2022
A series of nickel complexes bearing N,N-bidentate ligands has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and infrared (IR) spectroscopy. High ethylene dimerization activity, reaching 2.43 × 106 g mol−1(Ni)h−1, was achieved by using these complexes as precatalysts activated with Me2AlCl. Moreover, the selectivity to obtain α-C4 was high (93%–96%). Comparing with the previous report by our group, the higher activity and selectivity may be attributed to the substituent at the 2-position within the ligand, creating the steric hindrance around the metal atom.
Observer-Based Robust Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous with Thrust Saturation
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Abstract and Applied Analysis. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/710850 Open Access This paper proposes an observer-based robust guaranteed cost control method for thrust-limited rendezvous in near-circular orbits. Treating the noncircularity of the target orbit as a parametric uncertainty, a linearized motion model derived from the two-body problem is adopted as the controlled plant. Based on this model, a robust guaranteed cost observer-controller is synthesized with a less conservative saturation control law, and sufficient condition for the existence of this observer-based rendezvous controller is derived…
CCDC 2124204: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
2022
Related Article: Wenhua Lin, Ming Liu, Lei Xu, Yanping Ma, Liping Zhang, Zygmunt Flisak, Xinquan Hu, Tongling Liang, Wen‐Hua Sun|2022|Appl.Organomet.Chem.|36|e6596|doi:10.1002/aoc.6596
CCDC 1018185: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
2015
Related Article: Nazar Pidlypnyi, Sebastian Wolf, Ming Liu, Kari Rissanen, Martin Nieger, Andreas Schmidt|2014|Tetrahedron|70|8672|doi:10.1016/j.tet.2014.09.035
CCDC 2124203: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
2022
Related Article: Wenhua Lin, Ming Liu, Lei Xu, Yanping Ma, Liping Zhang, Zygmunt Flisak, Xinquan Hu, Tongling Liang, Wen‐Hua Sun|2022|Appl.Organomet.Chem.|36|e6596|doi:10.1002/aoc.6596