Advances in Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control: Theory and Applications

Ahmadreza Argha received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shiraz University, Iran, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student at UTS in Sydney, Australia (will be graduated in June 2016). His research interests include control and observer synthesis using convex methods for large-scale systems and networked control systems involving random time delay and packet losses, control applications to large-scale networks including power systems, Sliding Mode Control, Robust control, Optimal control, Sparsely distributed control, and further, biomedical system modelling and control.

Steven W. Su received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 1990 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE), The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia, where he was a Visiting Lecturer at the Biomedical System Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering, and from 2004 to 2006, a Research Fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of EMMS, and a core member of the Center for Health Technologies at UTS, Sydney. His current research interests include biomedical system modeling and control, robust and adaptive control, fault tolerant control, nonlinear process control, and navigation system design. is currently an Associate Professor in the School of EMMS, and a core member of the Center for Health Technologies at UTS.

Li Li received his B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1996, M.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 1999, and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he was a research associate at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). From 2007 to 2011, he was a researcher at the National ICT Australia, Victoria Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne. He joined UTS in 2011 and currently he is a Senior Lecturer. Dr Li held several visiting positions at Beijing Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University and UNSW@ADFA. His research interests are control theory and power system control.

Hung T. Nguyen received his BE degree with First Class Honours and University Medal in 1976 and PhD degree in 1980 from the University of Newcastle in Australia. He is currently Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation), Director of the Centre for Health Technologies, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at UTS. He has been involved with research in the areas of biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, neurosciences and advanced control for more than 20 years. He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS from 2010 to 2014, Founder & CEO/Managing Director of AIMedics Pty Ltd from 2001 to 2006, a recipient of UTS Teaching Award in 2000, and Engineering Manager of Power Electronics Pty Ltd from 1988 to 1990.

Branko G. Celler received B.Sc. and B.E. (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the UNSW, Australia. He is currently a Research Professor at the University of NEW South Wales School of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include biomedical instrumentation and systems, noninvasive modeling of cardiovascular performance, and medical informatics. Prof. Celler was Principal Scientist at the CSIRO Centre for Computational Informatics through to the 31st Dec 2014 and was previously Chief Scientist of the CSIRO ICT Centre. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and an Emeritus Professor at the University of NSW. He has received more than 15m in competitive research funding from sources as varied as the ARC, NH&MRC and DOHA and has published more than 220 refereed conference proceedings, Journal papers and book chapters.