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Boyang Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Ph.D.,  Civil and Environmental Engineering,  Duke University
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

Contact Information:

Rougeou Hall, Rm 261
Email: boyang.zhang@louisiana.edu
Website: boyangzhangphd.github.io

Courses Taught:

MCHE 374 – System Dynamics Modeling and Analysis

Research Interests:

  • Control theory
  • Optimization
  • Automation
  • Autonomous robots
  • Cyber-physical systems

Selected Honors and Awards:

Selected Publications:

Zhang, B. and Gavin, H.P. Gauss’s Principle with Inequality Constraints for Multi-
agent Navigation and Control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67,
no. 2, pp. 810-823, 2022, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2021.3059677.

Zhang, B. and Gavin, H.P. Decentralized Control of Multiagent Navigation Systems.
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 922-925, 2022, doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2022.105569.

Zhang, B. and Gavin, H.P. Computationally Efficient Tracking Control of Differential
Drive Wheeled Mobile Robots. Proceedings of the 2023 American Control Conference
(ACC), pp. 891-896, 2023, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156242.

Zhang, B. and Gavin, H.P. Decentralized Unified Position-Attitude Control of Nonli-
near UAVs. Proceedings of the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),
pp. 5214-5219, 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992624.

Zhang, B. and Gavin, H.P. Natural Deadlock Resolution for Multi-agent Multi-swarm
Navigation. Proceedings of the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),
pp. 5958-5963, 2021, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683102.

Zhang, B. and Gavin, H.P. Unified Position and Attitude Control of a Fully Nonlinear
Quadrotor. Proceedings of the 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1064-
1069, 2021, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9483358.