Prof. Dr. Mengchu Zhou

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsProduction Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning,Automation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics
KeywordsAutomatisierte Fertigungssysteme, Petri-Netze, Verteilte Systeme, Automatisierungstechnik

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityNewark
InstitutionNew Jersey Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Alexander FayProfessur für Automatisierungstechnik, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2017

Programme(s)

2000Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Zhou is well known internationally for his outstanding contributions to the theory of Petri nets and their application in manufacturing, transportation, and information systems. He developed a range of methods for scheduling and fault detection. His recent works are devoted to the distributed control of large scale automated manufacturing systems modeled with Petri nets and the automatic composition of semantic web services. In Germany, Professor Zhou will continue his research with special focus on semantic and model-based engineering of manufacturing systems in the context of “Industrie 4.0”.