[Projects,Award and Patent]

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China Project, 62003175, research on adaptive trajectory planning and anti-disturbance control of wind field of unmanned parafoil system, 2021/01-2023/12, 240,000 RMB, in research, PI

2. Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program, 2019YFC1510900, research on parafoil aircraft flight control technology, 2020/07-2022/12, 300,000 RMB, in research, PI

3. Postdoctoral Fund of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, 315660, Three-dimensional Acoustic Manipulation of Multiple Micro-objects, 2018/09-2021/08, 366,637 euros, completed, PI

4. China Postdoctoral Fund General Project, 2020M670045, research on adaptive trajectory planning and anti-disturbance control of unmanned parafoil system in wind farm environment, 2020/05-2020/12, 80,000 yuan, completed, PI

5. General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61573197, Optimization and analysis of typical control structure under the constraints of hypersonic flight body, 2015/01-2019.12, 650,000 yuan, completed, participate

6. General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61273138, research on the control method of parafoil autonomous homing and sparrow landing stage, 2013-01-2016-12, 800,000 yuan, completed, participate

[Publications and Books]

A) Peer-reviewed scientific articles    

l Peer-reviewed scientific journals    

[1] Xu, P., Li, W.X.,  Tao, J., Dehmer, M., Emmert-Streib, F., Xie, G.M., Xu, M.Y. and Zhou, Q. Distributed event-triggered circular formation control for multiple anonymous mobile robots with order preservation and obstacle avoidance, IEEE Access, 2020, 8: 167288 - 167299.    

[2] Dehmer, M., Emmert-Streib, F., Mowshowitz, A., Ilić, A., Chen, Z.Q., Yu, G.H., Feng, L.H., Ghorbani, M., Varmuza, K. and Tao, J. Relations and bounds for the zeros of graph polynomials using vertex orbits. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2020, 380, 125239.    

[3] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q., Tao, J., Luo, S.Z, Zeng, X.Y., Teng, H.S. and Zhou, P. An optimal‐multiphase homing methodology for powered parafoil systems. Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 2020, Published online, https://doi.org/10.1002/oca.2590.   

[4] Ghorbani, M., Dehmer, M., Cao, S.J., Feng, L.H., Tao, J. and Emmert-Streib, F. On the Zeros of the Partial Hosoya Polynomial of Graphs. Information Sciences, 2020, 524, 199-215.    

[5] Sun, H., Luo, S.Z., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q., Wu, W.N. and Tao, J. Trajectory optimization for parafoil delivery system considering complicated dynamic constraints in high-order model. Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020, 98, 105631.    

[6] Dehmer, M., Chen, Z.Q, Emmert-Streib, F., Mowshowitz, A., Varmuza, K., Feng, L.H., Jodlbauer, H., Shi, Y.T. and Tao, J.  The Orbit-Polynomial: A Novel Measure of Symmetry in Networks. IEEE Access, 2020, 8, 36100-36112.    

[7] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Wu, W.N., Chen, Z.Q. and Tao, J. Altitude control for flexible wing unmanned aerial vehicle based on active disturbance rejection control and feedforward compensation. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2020, 30(1), 222-245.    

[8] Gao, H.T., Xu, P., Tao, J., Huang, S.H. and Wang, R.G. and Zhou, Q.  Voltage Flicker Detection Based on Probability Resampling. Energies, 2020,13(13), 3350.    

[9]Xu, P., Xie, G.M., Tao, J., Xu, M.Y. and Zhou, Q. Observer-based event-triggered circle formation control for first-and second-order multiagent systems. Complexity, 2020, Article ID 4715315.    

[10] Gao, H.T., Tao, J., Dehmer, M., Emmert-Streib, F., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q., Xie, G.M. and Zhou, Q.  In-flight wind field identification and prediction of parafoil systems. Applied Sciences, 2020, 10(6), 1958.    

[11]Tao, J., Du, L., Dehmer, M., Wen, Y.Q., Xie, G.M. and Zhou, Q. Path following control for towing system of cylindrical drilling platform in presence of disturbances and uncertainties. ISA Transactions, 2019, 95, 185-193.    

[12] Xu, P., Zhao, H.F., Xie, G.M., Tao, J. and Xu, M. Y.  Pull-based distributed event-triggered circle formation control for multi-agent systems with directed topologies. Applied Sciences, 2019, 9(23), 4995.    

[13] Dehmer, M., Chen, Z.Q, Emmert-Streib, F.,Tripathi, S., Mowshowitz, A., Levitchi, A.,  Feng, L.H., Shi, Y.T. and Tao, J. Measuring the complexity of directed graphs: A polynomial-based approach. PLoS ONE, 2019, 14(11): e0223745.   

[14] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Wu, W.N., Luo, S.Z. and Tao, J. Flexible modelling and altitude control for powered parafoil system based on active disturbance rejection control. International Journal of Systems Science, 2019, 50(12), 2385-2408.   

[15] Ghorbani, M., Dehmer, M., Mowshowitz, A., Tao, J. and Emmert-Streib, F. The Hosoya entropy of graphs revisited. Symmetry, 2019, 11(8), 1013.    

[16]Tao, J., Dehmer, M., Xie, G.M. and Zhou, Q.  A generalized predictive control-based path following method for parafoil systems in wind environments. IEEE Access, 2019, 7, 42586-42595.    

[17] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Luo, S.Z., Chen, Z.Q., Wu, W.N., Tao, J. and He, YP In-flight compound homing methodology of parafoil delivery systems under multiple constraints. Aerospace Science and Technology, 2018, 79, 85-104.    

[18] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Tao, J., Luo, S.Z. and Chen, Z. Q. A hybrid control approach for powered parafoil combining active disturbance rejection control and unbalanced load compensation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 2018, 232(3), 299-314.    

[19]Zhu, C., Tao, J., Pastor, G., Xiao, Y., Ji, Y.S., Zhou, Q., Li, Y. and Ylä-Jääski, A. Folo: Latency and quality optimized task allocation in vehicular fog computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018, 6(3), 4150-4161.    

[20] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, Y.P.  LADRC-based trajectory tracking control for a parafoil system. Journal of Harbin Engineering University, 2018, 39(3), 510-516.    

[21]Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Liang, W., Chen, Z.Q., and Dehmer, M. CFD based dynamic modeling of a parafoil system. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2018, 54, 136-150.     

[22]Tao, J., Sun, QL, Sun, H., Chen, Z.Q., Dehmer, M. and Sun, MW Dynamic modeling and trajectory tracking control of parafoil system in wind environments. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2017, 22(6), 2736-2745.    

[23]Tao, J., Liang, W., Sun, Q.L., Tan, P.L., Luo, S.Z., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Modeling and control of a powered parafoil in wind and rain environments. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, 2017, 53(4): 1642 - 1659.   

[24] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Zhu, E.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Genetic algorithm based homing trajectory planning of parafoil system with constraints. Journal of Central South University (Science and Technology), 2017, 48(2): 404 - 410.    

[25] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Tan, P.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Homing control of parafoil systems in unknown wind environments. Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica, 2017, 38(05): 191 - 201.    

[26] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Dynamic modeling of a parafoil system considering flap defection. Journal of Southeast University (English Edition), 2017, 33(4):416-425.    

[27] Sun, Q.L., Liang, W., Tao, J., Luo, S.Z., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Parafoil dynamic modeling based on numerical simulation and least squares. Transactions of Beijing Institute of Technology,  2017, 37(02): 157 - 162 + 167.    

[28] Sun, Q.L., Liang, W., Tao, J., Luo, S.Z., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Dynamic modeling of parafoil in wind and rain environment based on CFD method. Journal of Central South University (Science and Technology), 2017, 8(48), 2053-2062.   

[29] Luo, S.Z., Sun, Q.L., Tan, P.L., Tao, J., He, YP and Luo, W.H. Trajectory planning of parafoil system with intricate constraints based on gauss pseudo-spectral method. Acta Aeronautica et stronautica Sinica, 2017, 38(03): 220 - 230.   

[30] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Linear active disturbance rejection based altitude control for an unmanned powered parafoil. Journal of National University of Defense Technology, 2017, 39(6), 103-110.    

[31] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Tan, P.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Autonomous homing control of a powered parafoil with insufficient altitude. ISA Transactions, 2016, 65, 516 - 524.    

[32]Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Tan, P.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Active disturbance rejection control (ADRC)-based autonomous homing control of powered parafoils. Nonlinear Dynamics, 2016, 86(3): 1461 - 1476.    

[33] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP NSGAII based multi-objective homing trajectory planning of parafoil system. Journal of Central South University. 2016, 23: 3248 - 3255.    

[34] Gao, H.T., Tao, J., Sun, Q.L. and Chen, Z.Q. Design and optimization in multiphase homing trajectory of parafoil system. Journal of Central South University, 2016, 23(6): 1416 - 1426.    

[35]  Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Homing control of a parafoil system in large wind environments. Control Theory & Applications. 2016, 33(12): 1630 - 1638.    

[36] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Zhu, E.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Homing trajectory planning of parafoil system based on quantum genetic algorithm. Journal of Harbin Engineering University. 2016, 37(9):1261 - 1268.    

[37] Tao, J., Pan, A.G. and Chen, D.P. Saving fuel method of rotary drilling machine. Construction Machinery and Maintenance, 2013, 11: 166 - 167.    

[38] Chen, W., Kong, F. and Tao, J. Application of neural network for the network detection. Journal of Guangxi University of Technology, 2011, 01: 78 - 81.   

[39] Xiao, Q., Kong, F. and Tao, J. Research on path optimization of point-to-point fuzzy control on biomimetic robot-fish. Electric Drive, 2011, 07: 34 - 37 + 47.    

[40] Tao, J., Kong, F. and Xie, G.M. Behavior-based motion planning of biomimetic robot-fish. Ordnance Industry Automation, 2010, 11: 70 - 73.    

[41] Kong, F., Tao, J. and Xie, C.P. Research on mobile robot path planning technology. Journal of Guangxi University of Technology, 2009, 04: 70 - 74.   

[42] Xie, C.P., Kong, F. and Tao, J. Research on turning control of biomimetic robot fish based on fuzzy control. Robot Technique and Application, 2009, 04: 26 - 28.

II Peer-reviewed conference papers    

[43] Xu, P., Wang, X.Y., Xie, G.M., Tao, J., Xu, M.Y. and Zhou, Q. Distributed finite-time bipartite consensus of multi-agent systems via event-triggered control. IFAC 2020, 2020, Accepted.    

[44] Xu, P., Wang, X.Y., Xie, G.M., Tao, J., Xu, M.Y. and Zhou, Q. Distributed self-triggered circular formation control for multi-robot systems. 39th Chinese Control Conference 2020, Shenyang, China, July 27-29, 2020, Accepted.    

[45] Yang, S.W., Wen, J.Y., Luo, W.G., Zhu, Z.H., Xie, G.M. and Tao, J. Distributed event-triggered bipartite consensus for multi-agent systems associated with signed graphs. In 2019 Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), Marrakesh, Morocco, December 14-19, 2019, pp.  268-273.    

[46] Xu, P., Xie, G.M., Tao, J. and Xu, M. Y. Observer-based Event-triggered Circle Formation Control for Multi-agent Systems with Directed Topologies. In 2019 Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), Marrakesh, Morocco, December 14-19, 2019, pp. 239-245.    

[47] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Luo, S.Z., Chen, Z.Q., Wu, W.N. and Tao, J. Compound trajectory optimization methodology for parafoil delivery system based on quantum genetic algorithm. Data Science and Knowledge Engineering for Sensing Decision Support - Proceedings of the 13th International FLINS Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, August 21 - 24, 2018, pp. 907-913.    

[48]   Tao, J., Piao, M.N., Sun, Q.L., Sun, M.W. and Chen, Z.Q. Tracking control of parafoil airdrop robot in wind environments. 11th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control, Wasowo, Poland, July 3-5, 2017, pp: 269 - 274.    

[49] Sun, H., Sun, Q.L., Tao, J., Luo S.Z. and Chen, Z.Q. A Flight Control System for Parafoils Based on Improved PID Control Approach. 36th Chinese Control Conference, Dalian, China, July 26-28, 2017, pp.1168 - 1173.    

[50] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Modeling and simulation of parafoil systems in wind fields. 11th Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference, Xiamen, China, October 22-23, 2016, IEEE, pp: 109 - 117.    

[51] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Liang, W. and Chen, Z.Q. CFD based dynamic modelling of parafoil system in wind environment. 12th International FLINS Conference, Roubaix, France, 24-26 August 2016, Word Scientific, pp: 668 - 674.    

[52] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Chen, Z.Q. and He, YP Automatic homing control of parafoil system based on ADRC. 2016 IEEE Chinese Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Nanjing, China, August 12-16, 2016, IEEE, pp: 110 - 115.    

[53] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Luo, S.Z., Liang, W. and Chen, Z.Q. CPSO based optimization in multiphase trajectory of powered parafoil with insufficient altitude. 35th Chinese Control Conference, Chengdu, China, July 27-29, 2016,  pp: 5386 - 5391.    

[54] Luo, S.Z., Sun, Q.L., Tao, J., Liang, W. and Chen, Z.Q. Trajectory planning and gathering for multiple parafoil systems based on pseudo-spectral method. 35th Chinese Control Conference, Chengdu, China, July 27-29, 2016,  pp: 2553 - 2558. 

[55] Tao, J., Sun, Q.L., Zhu, E.L. and Chen, Z.Q. Quantum genetic algorithm based homing trajectory planning of parafoil system. 34th Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, China July 28-30, 2015,  pp: 2523 - 2528.    

[56] Xiao, Q., Kong, F. and Tao, J. Research on point-to-point of biomimetic robot-fish based on fuzzy control. 2011 International Conference on Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE). 2011, pp: 1652 - 1655.   

[Courses]

Undergraduate Course: Digital Electronic Technology

[Memberships]

Member of the Robot System Simulation Committee of China Simulation Society;

IEEE member;

Member of Chinese Institute of Electronics;

Member of Chinese Society of Automation;

Member of China Simulation Society;

14th and 15th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded System and Applications Active Disturbance Control forum co-chairs;

Finance Chairman of the 4th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales.