Xinming YAN

**Xinming YAN** Address: Apt 5.176, La Sensive, 1, Bd Einstein, 44300 Nantes, France Phone: +33 (0) 666015166 Email: yanxinming.tony@gmail.com Date of Birth: 17 May 1989 Place of Birth: Beijing, China **EDUCATION** 10/2013 – 08/2016 **Ecole Centrale de Nantes** Nantes, France Ÿ PhD in Automatic Control Ÿ Thesis Title: ``Development of robust control tools for nonlinear uncertain system’’. Ÿ Thesis directors : Franck Plestan and Muriel Primot 09/2012 – 09/2013 **Ecole Centrale de Nantes** Nantes, France Ÿ Master in Control Engineering and Production Systems Ÿ Coursework: Optimization, Methodology of control, Advanced control, Advanced control strategy of dynamic systems 09/2011 – 06/2012 **BeiHang University (BUAA)** Beijing, China Ÿ Master inPower Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics 09/2007 – 07/2011 **BeiHang University (BUAA)** Beijing, China Ÿ Bachelor in General Engineering Ÿ Coursework: Electronics, Thermodynamics, Mechanics, Mathematics, Simulation and Optimization, C/C++, Java, Management **ACADEMIC PROJECTS** 11/2010 – 06/2011 **Bachelor Project** **at the Research Center of Fluid Transmission and Control** Ÿ Designed the test platform for pneumatic actuator. Ÿ Designed the test system interface with Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW). Ÿ Acted as the team leader: organizing the project progress, communicating with tutors and team members. 10/2010 – 03/2011 **Project of SRTP (Student Research Training Program)** Ÿ Developed the remote control of Short Message Service (SMS) based on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Module SIM300. Ÿ Microcontroller Programming with language C. Ÿ Third prize winner in the university-wide competition. 10/2013–09/2015 **ChaSlim project** Ÿ Designing new sliding mode controllers and developing a toolbox for synthesizing controllers and simulating the obtained closed-loop system. **CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST** Ÿ Nonlinear system control Ÿ Sliding mode control Ÿ Electropneumatic system **PUBLICATIONS** Internationale Conference Papers : Xinming Yan, Franck Plestan, Muriel Primot. ``Perturbation observer for a pneumatic system: high gain versus higher order sliding mode solutions’’ European Control Conference ECC, 2014, Strasbourg, France, 2014 Xinming Yan, Muriel Primot, Franck Plestan. ``Comparison of differentiation schemes for the velocity and acceleration estimations of a pneumatic system’’ IFAC World Congress, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 Mohammed Taleb, Xinming Yan, Franck Plestan. ``Third order sliding mode controller based on adaptive integral sliding mode concept: experimental application to an electropneumatic actuator’’ IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC, Dec 2014, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014 Xinming Yan, Franck Plestan, Muriel Primot. ``Higher order sliding mode control with a reduced use of sliding variable time derivatives’’ American Control Conference, Chicago, United States, Jul 2015. Xinming Yan, Muriel Primot, Franck Plestan. ``Output feedback twisting-like control’’ submitted toAmerican Control Conference, Boston, United States, Jul 2016. Xinming Yan, Muriel Primot, Franck Plestan. ``An unified formalism based on gain switching for second order sliding mode control’’ submitted to 14th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), Nanjing, China, June, 2016. Journal Articles : Xinming Yan, Franck Plestan, Muriel Primot. ``A new third order sliding mode controller - application to an electropneumatic actuator" submitted to IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Mars, 2015 Antonio Estrada, Xinming Yan, Franck Plestan. ``Adaptive pulse output feedback controller based on second order sliding mode: methodology and application", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, February, 2015. Xinming Yan, Muriel Primot, Franck Plestan.``Adaptive output feedback twisting-like control with application to electropneumatic system’’ submitted to Int. J. Robust. Nonlinear Control, Dec, 2015. Xinming Yan, Muriel Primot, Franck Plestan. "Electropneumatic actuator position control using second order sliding mode" submitted to e&i Special Issue 6/2016 on Sliding mode Application **HONORS** 07/2012 Scholarship under the National Scholarship Fund of China 10/2008 Scholarship for Academic Performance, BUAA **COMPUTER SKILLS AND LANGUAGES** Ÿ Proficient at Microsoft Office, Java, C, Scilab, LabVIEW, Matlab Ÿ Fluent in English and French; Native proficiency in Mandarin Chinese