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Hongjiu Yang was born in Hebei Province, China, in 1981. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics and applied mathematics and the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, China, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering in Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Automation, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, China. His main research interests include robust control/filter theory, delta operator systems, networked control systems and active disturbance rejection control.

[1] Hongjiu Yang, Yuanqing Xia*, Peng Shi and Ling Zhao, Analysis and Synthesis of Delta Operator Systems, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642- 28773-2, 2012.

[2] Hongjiu Yang*, Lei Cheng, Yuanqing Xia and Yuan Yuan, "Active disturbance rejection attitude control for a dual closed-loop quadrotor under gust wind," Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2017.

[3] Hongjiu Yang*, Yang Xu and Jinhui Zhang, "Event-driven control for networked control systems with quantization and Markov packet losses," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 2235-2243, 2017.

[4] Hongjiu Yang, Yang Xu, Yuanqing Xia and Jinhui Zhang*, "Networked predictive control for nonlinear systems with arbitrary region quantizers," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 2244-2255, 2017.

[5] Hongjiu Yang*, Yingjie Wang and Yana Yang, "Adaptive control for large-scale nonlinear systems with time-delays and unmodeled dynamics," IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 938-945, 2017.

Yuanqing Xia received the M.S. degree in Fundamental Mathematics from Anhui University, China, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2001. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing. His research interests are in the fields of networked control systems, robust control, active disturbance rejection control and biomedical signal processing.

[1] Yuanqing Xia and Mengyin Fu, "Compound Control Methodology for Flight Vehicles", Springer, 2013 (ISBN 978-3-642-36840-0)

[2] Yuanqing Xia, Mengyin Fu and Guo-Ping Liu, "Analysis and Synthesis of Networked Control Systems", Springer, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-642-17924-2)

[3] Yuanqing Xia, Fan Pu, Mengyin Fu, Lei Ye, "Modeling and compound control for unmanned turret system with coupling", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.63, no.9, pp.5794-5803, 2016.

[4] Yuanqing Xia, Fan Pu, Shengfei Li, Yuan Gao, "Lateral path tracking control of autonomous land vehicle based on ADRC and differential flatness", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 3091-3099, 2016.

Qing Geng was born in Hebei Province, China, in 1989. She received the B.S. degree in mathematics and applied mathematics from Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, China, in 2014. She is currently working toward the M.S. degree at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University. Her main research interests actuator saturation, delta operator systems and networked control systems.