Publications

Journal Papers

1. L. Liu, M. Lu*, S. Wang, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Robust distributed nash equilibrium seeking subject to communication constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 1941-1948, Mar. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3476195.

2. L. Zhang, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Cooperative output regulation subject to uncertain exosystems and its application: a fully distributed adaptive observer approach,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Feb. 2025 ,DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2025.354366.

3. K. Xie, M. Guay, M. Lu*, S. Wang and F. Deng, “Optimal output feedback learning control for continuous-time linear quadratic regulation,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Jan. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2025.3532182.

4. L. Zhang, M. Guay, M. Lu* and S. Wang, “Distributed state estimation for discrete-time uncertain linear systems over jointly connected switching networks,” Automatica, vol. 173, Mar. 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2024.112079.

5. J. Wu, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “An emulation approach to semi-global robust output regulation for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems,” Acta Automatica Sinica, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/JAS.2024.125085.

6. Z. Bao, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Attitude tracking of uncertain flexible spacecraft systems subject to unknown external disturbances,” arXiv e-prints 2024, DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2403.12542.

7. L. Zhang, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Distributed state estimation under jointly connected switching networks: Continuous-time linear systems and discrete-time linear systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1104-1111, Feb. 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3279210. 

8. X. He and M. Lu*, “Output feedback control of uncertain Euler–Lagrange systems by internal model,” Automatica, vol. 156, Oct. 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111189.

9. J. Wu, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Event-triggered cooperative robust output regulation of minimum-phase linear uncertain multi-agent systems,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 7390-7405, Jul. 2024, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.7349.

10. J. Wu, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Robust output regulation of a class of minimum-phase linear uncertain systems by event-triggered control,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 989-998, Jun. 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2023.3330446.

11. J. Wu, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Cooperative robust output regulation of linear uncertain multi-agent systems: A dynamic event-triggered approach,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 33, no. 18, pp. 11538-11552, 2023, DOI:10.1002/rnc.6957.

12. M. Lu, “A sensory feedback based discrete distributed observer to cooperative output regulation,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 4762-4769, Sept. 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3162545.

13. J. Wu, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Robust output regulation of linear uncertain systems by dynamic event-triggered output feedback control,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 7333-7341, Nov. 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2023.3235731.

14. L. Liang, F. Deng, J. Wang, M. Lu and J. Chen, “A reconnaissance penetration game with territorial-constrained defender,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 6295-6302, Nov. 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3183034.

15. M. Lu and L. Liu, “A low gain approach to output consensus of networked heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems,” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 59,no. 6,pp. 4295-4313, Nov. 2021, DOI.org/10.1137/19M1296458.

16. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Consensus of heterogeneous second-order nonlinear uncertain multi-agent systems under switching networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 3331-3338, July 2021, DOI:10.1109/TAC.2020.3019737.

17. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Robust synchronization control of switched networked Euler–Lagrange systems,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 6834-6842, July 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2020.3031009.

18. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Quantized output regulation of minimum-phase linear uncertain systems,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 30, no. 17, pp. 7074 – 7088, Feb. 2020, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.5157.

19. L. Liang, F. Deng, M. Lu and J. Chen, “Analysis of role switch for cooperative target defense differential game,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 902-909, Feb. 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.2987701.

20. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Leader-following attitude consensus of multiple rigid spacecraft systems under switching networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 839 – 845, Feb. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2019.2920074.

21. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Leader-following consensus of multiple uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems with unknown dynamic leader,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 4167 – 4173, Oct. 2019, DOI:10.1109/TAC.2019.2892384.

22. M. Lu, L. Liu and G. Feng, “Adaptive tracking control of uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems subject to external disturbances,” Automatica, vol. 104, pp. 207 – 219, Mar. 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.02.048. (Regular paper)

23. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Leader-following consensus of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to disturbances,” Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 88 – 94, Jan. 2019, DOI: 10.1631/FITEE.1800611. (Invited Paper)

24. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Leader-following consensus of multiple uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 28, no. 14, pp. 4093 – 4104, Sep. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.4223.

25. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Robust output consensus of networked heterogeneous nonlinear systems by distributed output regulation,” Automatica, vol. 94, pp. 186 – 193, Aug. 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2018.04.018.

26. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Leader-following consensus of multiple uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems subject to communication delays and switching networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 2604 – 2611, Aug. 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2017.2771318.

27. M. Lu, “Rendezvous with connectivity preservation of mobile agents subject to uniform time-delays,” Automatica, vol. 88, pp. 31 – 37, Feb. 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2017.11.003.

28. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Internal model approach to cooperative robust output regulation for linear uncertain time-delay multi-agent systems,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 2528 – 2542, Jan. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.4034.

29. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Cooperative output regulation of linear multi-agent systems by a novel distributed dynamic compensator,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 6481 – 6488, Dec. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2017.2658026.

30. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Distributed feedforward approach to cooperative output regulation subject to communication delays and switching networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1999 – 2005, Apr. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2016.2594151.

31. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Consensus of linear multi-agent systems subject to communication delays and switching networks,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 1379 – 1396, Jun. 2017, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.3750. (Front Cover Paper)

32. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Cooperative output regulation problem for linear time-delay multi-agent systems under switching network,” Neurocomputing, vol. 190, pp. 132-139,May. 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.01.025.

33. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Cooperative global robust output regulation for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with a nonlinear leader,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 3557 – 3562, Feb. 2016, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2016.2527920.

34. M. Lu and J. Huang, “A class of nonlinear internal models for global robust output regulation problem,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 1831 – 1843, Aug. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.3180.

35. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Robust output regulation problem for linear time-delay systems,” International Journal of Control, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 1236 – 1245, Jan. 2015, DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2014.1002111.

Conference Papers

1. L. Liu, M. Lu*, F. Deng, L. Dou and J. Chen, “Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking with Communication Delays,” in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Reykjavík, Iceland, 2024, pp. 6-11, DOI: 10.1109/ICCA62789.2024.10591839. (Best Paper Award)

2. Z. Bao, M. Lu* and F. Deng, “Attitude Tracking Control of Uncertain Flexible Spacecraft Systems Subject to External Disturbances,” in Proceedings of the 2023 IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 9239-9244.

3. J. Wu, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Output Regulation of Nonlinear Systems by an Emulation-Based Approach,” in Proceedings of the 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 4779-4784.

4. Y. Zhang, J. Wu, M. Lu* and F. Deng, “Event-Triggered Practical Output Regulation of Linear Uncertain Systems Under Denial-of-Service Attacks,” in Proceedings of the 2023 42nd Chinese Control Conference, Tianjin, China, 2023, pp. 1-6.

5. L. Zhang, M. Lu*, F. Deng and J. Chen, “Distributed State Estimation of Linear Systems Under Uniformly Connected Switching Networks,” in Proceedings of the 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, TX, USA, 2021, pp. 4008-4013.

6. X. He, M. Lu* and F. Deng, “Trajectory Tracking Control of Uncertain Euler-Lagrange Systems: A Robust Control Approach,” in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Sanya, China, 2021, pp. 1855-1860.

7. M. Lu, F. Deng, and L. Liu, “An Extension of Barbalat's Lemma with its Application to Synchronization of a Class of Switched Networked Nonlinear Systems,” in Proceedings of the 2020 IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2020, pp. 9778-9783.

8. M. Lu, F. Deng and L. Liu, “Cooperative output regulation of linear multi-agent systems under communication delays,” in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Control and Automation, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 16–19, 2019, pp. 1132 – 1137.

9. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Synchronization of a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems,” in Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Systems, Shanghai, China, May 29–31, 2019, pp. 429 – 433.

10. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Adaptive leader-following consensus of networked uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems with dynamic leader based on sensory feedback,” in Proceedings of the 2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, Nov. 18–21, 2018, pp. 756 – 761.

11. M. Lu, L. Liu and G. Feng, “Adaptive leader-following consensus of multiple uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems based on sensory feedback,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, Kandima, Maldives, Aug. 1–5, 2018, pp. 302 – 303.

12. M. Lu and L. Liu, (Invited) “Leader-Following Consensus of Uncertain Euler-Lagrange Multi-Agent Systems with Communication Delays,” in Proceedings of the 37th Chinese Control Conference, Wuhan, China, Jul. 25–27, 2018, pp. 7055 – 7060.

13. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Stabilization of minimum-phase linear uncertain systems with quantized measurement output and disturbances,” in Proceedings of the 2018 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Changsha, China, Jul. 4–8, 2018, pp. 234 – 239. (Best Paper Award)

14. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Attitude consensus of switched networked spacecraft multi-agent systems,” in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Control and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, Jun. 12–15, 2018, pp. 312 – 317.

15. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Robust consensus of a class of heterogeneous nonlinear uncertain multi-agent systems subject to communication constraints,” in Proceedings of the 2018 Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Shenyang, China, Jun. 9–11, 2018, pp. 74 – 81. (Zhang Si-Ying (CCDC) Outstanding Youth Paper Award)

16. M. Lu, L. Liu and G. Feng, “Output synchronization of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems,” in Proceedings of the 2017 Asian Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 17–20, 2017, pp. 156 – 161. (Shimemura Young Author Prize)

17. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Cooperative global robust output regulation for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with communication delays,” in Proceedings of the 2017 American Control Conference, Seattle, USA,May 24–26, 2017, pp. 2668 – 2673.

18. M. Lu and L. Liu, “Consensus of linear multi-agent systems with communication delays under dynamic networks,” in Proceedings of the 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Phuket, Thailand, Nov. 13–15, 2016.

19. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Cooperative robust output regulation for linear uncertain time-delay multi-agent systems,” in Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Information Science and Applications, Ho Chi Minh City(Saigon), Vietnam, Feb. 15–18, 2016, pp. 299 – 307.

20. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Cooperative robust output regulation for nonlinear multi-agent systems with unity relative degree subject to a nonlinear leader,” in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, Lijiang, China, Aug. 8–10, 2015, pp. 196 – 201.

21. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Robust output regulation problem for linear systems with both input and communication delays,” in Proceedings of the 2015 American Control Conference, Chicago, USA, Jul. 1–3, 2015, pp. 4036 – 4041.

22. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Cooperative output regulation problem for linear time-delay multi-agent systems under switching network,” in Proceedings of the 33th Chinese Control Conference, Nanjing, China, Jul. 28–30, 2014, pp. 3515 – 3520.

23. M. Lu and J. Huang, “Output regulation problem for linear time-delay systems,” Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems, Hong Kong, China, Jun. 4–7, 2014, pp. 274 – 279.

24. M. Lu and J. Huang, “A class of nonlinear internal models and its application,” in Proceedings of the 32th Chinese Control Conference, Xi’an, China, Jul. 26–28, 2013, pp. 1052 – 1057.

25. S. Yuan, M. Lu and X. Liu, “The analysis of static and dynamic characteristics of motorized high-speed spindle based on sensitivity analysis of FEM model,” Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 376 – 381, Feb. 2011. DOI: 10.4028www.scientific.netAMM.43.376.

26. Q. Liu, X. Liu, M. Lu and W. Wu, “Dynamic analysis on linear motor drive unit for NC machine tool based on multi-modes motion,” in Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Computer,Mechatronics, Control and Electronic Engineering, Changchun, China, Aug. 24–26, 2010, pp. 460 – 463.

Pending Patents and Software

1. S. Yuan, M. Lu and X. Liu, “Topology optimization-based cobweb-like interlayer rib plate composite structure design method,” National Inventing Patents, China, PN: CN101980222B, issued Dec. 2013.

2. S. Yuan and M. Lu, “Design method of bionic spider web composite material structure,” National Inventing Patents, PN: CN101950316B, issued Nov. 2012.

3. S. Yuan, Z. Zhan, and M. Lu, “Dynamic property scaling type model researching method for large machine tool,” National Inventing Patents, PN: CN102184303A, issued Sep. 2011.

4. S. Yuan and M. Lu, “The analysis and optimization system for motorized spindle of NC machine tools,” Software Copyright, China, register No.:2010SR027562.

Thesis

1. M. Lu, “The Output Regulation of Linear Time-Delay Systems and Complex Nonlinear Systems,” Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK, Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2015.

2. M. Lu, “Design, Analysis, and Dynamic Optimization of NC Machine Tool,” M.S. Thesis, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, BUAA, Beijing, China, June, 2011.