Prof. Dr. Zhiwei Gao

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsAutomation, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Intelligent Technical Systems, Robotics,Systems theory; control
Keywordswind turbine, wave energy converter, wind energy systems, digital twins, fault-tolerant control

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityNewcastle upon Tyne
InstitutionUniversity of Northumbria at Newcastle
InstituteFaculty of Engineering and Environment

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steven X. DingInstitut für elektrische Energie- und Automatisierungstechnik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steven X. DingFachgebiet Automatisierungstechnik und komplexe Systeme, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg
Prof. Dr. Ping ZhangLehrstuhl für Automatisierungstechnik, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Kaiserslautern
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2004

Programme(s)

2004Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Jin, H., Zhang, Z., Yang, G., Zuo, Z., Gao, Z., Wang, Y.: An Event-Triggered Interval Observer Scheme for Fault Diagnosis of Cyber–Physical DC Microgrids. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 21, 2025, 2789 - 2798
2025Wang, X., Xu, W., Su, H., Gao, Z., Chen, G.: Designing a Completely Distributed Interval Observer for the LTI System. In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 70, 2025, 1793 - 1808
2025Xie, T., Gao, Z., Xu, Q., Jiang, C., Zhang, A.: Enhancing Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection With an Inference Stacked Recurrent-Autoencoder in Strong Mechanistic Contexts. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 21, 2025, 1724 - 1733
2025Liu, X., Li, R., Gao, Z., Zhang, W., Zhang, A., Li, B., Zhang: Joint Observer Based Fault Tolerant Control for Discrete-Time Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems With Immeasurable Premise Variables. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 72, 2025, 4248 - 4259
2024Min, J., Gao, Z., Wang, L., and Zhang, Z. Application research of short-time Fourier transform in music generation based on the parallel Wavegan system. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024,
2024Liu, X., Yuan, Z., Gao, Z., and Zhang, W. Reinforcement learning-based fault-tolerant control for quadrotor UAVs under actuator fault. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024,
2023H Jin, Z Gao, Z Zuo, Z Zhang, Y Wang, A Zhang: A Combined Model-Based and Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Lithium-Ion Batteries. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2023,
2023Shixiang Lu, Zhiwei Gao, Ping Zhang, Qifa Xu, Tianming Xie, Aihua Zhang: Event-Triggered Federated Learning for Fault Diagnosis of Offshore Wind Turbines With Decentralized Data. In: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 5, 2023,
2023S Lu, Z Gao, Q Xu, C Jiang, T Xie, A Zhang: Remaining Useful Life Prediction Via Interactive Attention-Based Deep Spatio-Temporal Network Fusing Multisource Information. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2023,
2023Z Gao, P Zhang, A Zhang: Sensor Fault Estimator and Fault Tolerant Controller for Boost Converter. In: IEEE 1st Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON), 2023,
2022S Lu, Z Gao, Q Xu, C Jiang, A Zhang, X Wang: Class-imbalance privacy-preserving federated learning for decentralized fault diagnosis with biometric authentication. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022,
2022X Yin, Z Gao, D Yue, S Hu: Cloud-based event-triggered predictive control for heterogeneous NMASs under both DoS attacks and transmission delays. In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2022, 7482-7493
2022Reihane Rahimilarki, Zhiwei Gao, Nanlin Jin, Aihua Zhang: Convolutional neural network fault classification based on time-series analysis for benchmark wind turbine machine. In: Renewable Energy, 185, 2022, 916-931
2021X Yin, Z Gao, Z Chen, Y Fu: Nonexistence of the Asymptotic Flocking in the CuckerSmale Model With Short Range Communication Weights. In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 67, 2021, 1067-1072
2019Xiaoxu Liu, Zhiwei Gao, Aihua Zhang: Observer-based fault estimation and tolerant control for stochastic Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy systems with Brownian parameter perturbations. In: Automatica, 2019, 137-149
2019Reihane Rahimilarki, Zhiwei Gao, Aihua Zhang, and Richard Binns: Robust neural network fault estimation approach for nonlinear dynamic systems with applications to wind turbine systems. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019,
2018Dapeng Zhang, Zhiling Lin and Zhiwei Gao: A Novel Fault Detection with Minimizing the Noise-Signal Ratio Using Reinforcement Learning. In: Sensors, 2018, 3087
2018Dapeng Zhang, and Zhiwei Gao: Reinforcement learning–based fault-tolerant control with application to flux cored wire system . In: Measurement and Control, 2018, 349-359
2018Xiaoxu Liu, Zhiwei Gao, Aihua Zhang Robust Fault Tolerant Control for Discrete-Time Dynamic Systems With Applications to Aero Engineering Systems. In: IEEE Access, 2018, 18832-18847
2015Zhiwei Gao, C Cecati, SX Ding: A Survey of Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Techniques—Part I: Fault Diagnosis With Model-Based and Signal-Based Approaches. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 62, 2015, 3757 - 3767
2015Z Gao, C Cecati, SX Ding: A survey of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant techniques-part II Fault diagnosis with knowledge-based and hybrid/active approaches. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62, 2015, 3768 - 3774
2015Z Gao, SX Ding, C Cecati: Real-time fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62, 2015, 3752 - 3756
2008Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding: Fault Reconstruction for Lipschitz Nonlinear Descriptor Systems via Linear Matrix Inequality Approach . In: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 2008, 295-308
2008Zhiwei Gao, Xiaoyan Shi, and Steven X. Ding: Fuzzy State/Disturbance Observer Design for TS Fuzzy Systems With Application to Sensor Fault Estimation. In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B, 2008, 875-880
2007Zhiwei Gao, H. Wang, T. Cai: A robust fault detection filtering for stochastic distribution systems via descriptor estimator and parametric gain design. In: IET Control Theory and Applications, 2007, 1286-1293
2007Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding: Actuator fault robust estimation and fault-tolerant control for a class of nonlinear descriptor systems. In: Automatica, 2007, 912-920
2007Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding: Fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for descriptor systems via PMID observer design. In: IET- Control Theory and Applications, 2007, 1208-1218
2007Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding, Y. Ma: Robust fault estimation approach and its application in vehicle lateral dynamic systems. In: Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 2007, 143-156
2007Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding: Sensor fault reconstruction and sensor compensation for a class of nonlinear state-space systems via a descriptor system approach. In: IET Control Theory and Applications , 2007, 578 -585
2007Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding: State and disturbance estimator for time-delay systems with application to fault estimation and signal compensation. In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2007, 5541-5551
2006Zhiwei Gao, D. W. C Ho: On state-space realization of Bezout factorizations in singular systems. In: Dynamics of Continuous Discrete and Impulsive Systems: Series A, Mathematical Analysis, 2006, 387-410
2006Zhiwei Gao, and D. W. C. Ho: State/noise estimator for descriptor systems with application to sensor fault diagnosis. In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2006, 1316-1326
2005Zhiwei Gao: PD observer parameterization design for descriptor systems. In: Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2005, 551-564