Selected Publications

J.-S. Yang and W. S. Levine, "Specification of Control Systems," pp. 9.1-9.20 (Chapter 9) in Control System Fundamentals of The Control Handbook (Volume 1 of the Three-Volume Set), 2nd edition, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2011.
S. Rud, J.-S. Yang, et.al., " A Support Vector Machine (SVM) Classification Approach to Heart Murmur Detection, " in Advances in Neural Networks - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 6064), pp. 52-59, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, June 2010.
J.-S. Yang, "An Optimization-Based Approach to Special-Events Traffic Signal Timing Control," Control and Intelligent Systems, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 137-143, 2008.
J.-S. Yang, "Application of the Kalman Filter to the Arterial Travel Time Prediction - A Special Event Case Study," Control and Intelligent Systems, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 79-85, 2007.
J.-S. Yang, "PID Control for a Binary Distillation Column Using a Genetic Searching Algorithm," WSEAS Transactions on Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 720-726, 2006.
J.-S. Yang, "Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averaging Modeling for Short-Term Arterial Travel Time Prediction," WSEAS Transactions on Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 751-759, 2006.
J.-S. Yang, "A Nonlinear State Space Approach to Arterial Travel Time Prediction," Final Report MN/RC-2006-05, (ARTS Project No. 2004-030R; Implementation Project No. 2004-029I), (c) 81655 (wo) 130, Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT), February 2006.
J.-S. Yang, "A Neural Network-Based Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation Approach to Traffic Signal Timing Control," WSEAS Transactions on Systems, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 197-205, 2005.
J.-S. Yang, "A Discrete Fourier Transform Approach to a Constrained Mixed H² Sensitivity Optimization with Applications," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 138-150, 2000.
J.-S. Yang and W. S. Levine, "Specification of Control Systems," in Control System Fundamentals, Chapter 10.1, pp. 158-169, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2000.
J.-S. Yang, "Control of a Five-Link Biped Using an Adaptive Inverse Dynamics Based Method," Control and Computers, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 56-64, 1997; Control and Intelligent Systems, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 34, 1998.
J.-S. Yang and W. S. Levine, "Specification of Control Systems," in The Control Handbook, ed. by W. S. Levine, pp. 158-169, jointly published by IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ and CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1996. (This book was awarded "Best Engineering Handbook of 1996" by the Association of American Publishers).
J.-S. Yang and I. Siddiqui, "A TCP/IP Network Design," Annual Review of Communications, ed. by D. Coran, vol. 49, pp. 661-668, International Engineering Consortium, PEI, Chicago, IL, 1996.
J.-S. Yang and M. E. Zervakis, "Mixed H²-Norm Sensitivity Minimization in the DFT Domain for Control System Design," Control-Theory and Advanced Technology, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1515-1530, 1995.
M. E. Zervakis, T. K. Kwon, and J.-S. Yang, "Multiresolution Image Restoration in the Wavelet Domain," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 578-591, 1995.
J.-S. Yang, "A Control Study of a Kneeless Biped Locomotion Systems," Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 331B, no. 2, pp. 125-143, 1994.
J.-S. Yang, "Output Frequency Weighted Balanced Realization Like Controller Order Reduction," Control-Theory and Advanced Technology , vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 269-280, 1994.
J.-S. Yang, "H^oo Robust Control Design for Linear Feedback Systems," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics , vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1131-1137, 1993.
J.-S. Yang, "A Parameter Plane Method for the PID Control of a Multirate, Sampled-Data Chemical Reactor System with a Transportation Lag," Chemical Engineering Communications - An International Journal for Communication of Research, vol. 122, pp.227-244, 1993.
J.-S. Yang and W. S. Levine, "An H^oo Method for the Design of Linear Time-Invariant Multivariable Sampled-Data Control Systems," in Analysis and Optimization of Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pp. 89-100, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1988.
J.-S. Yang and K. W. Han, "The Horowitz Method for Sampled-Data Control Systems, " in Digital and Sampled-Data Control Systems, Chapter 13, pp, 315-337, Academic Press, London, UK, 1979. [Dr. Yang has published over 100 technical journal and conference articles, and book chapters]