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IEEE Fellow
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Xinghuo Yu received BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1982 and 1984, and PhD degree from South-East University, Nanjing, China in 1988, respectively. He is now with RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia, where he is the Founding Director of RMIT's Platform Technologies Research Institute. Professor Yu's research interests include variable structure and nonlinear control, complex and intelligent systems and industrial applications. He has published over 400 refereed papers in technical journals, books and conference proceedings.
Professor Yu is serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and several other scholarly journals. He received an award under the Thousand Talents Program of the Chinese Government in 2010, a Chang Jiang Scholar (Chair Professor) Award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2009, the 1995 Central Queensland University Vice Chancellor's Award for Research, and was made Emeritus Professor of Central Queensland University of Australia in 2002 for his long term contributions.
Professor Yu is a Fellow of the IEEE, Vice-President for Publications of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and an IEEE IES Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. Professor Yu is currently the Chair of the Technical Committee on Smart Grids of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
Smart Grids : An Industrial Electronics Perspective
Smart Grids are electric networks that employ innovative and intelligent monitoring, control, communication, and self-healing technologies to deliver better connections and operations for generators and distributors, flexible choices for consumers, and reliability and security of electricity supply. Smart Grids are complex networks in nature that face many new technological challenges for the future developments.
In this talk, we will first give a brief overview of Smart Grids and their recent developments, focusing on broad challenging research issues from an Industrial Electronics perspective. The Smart Grids activities within the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society will be reported. We will then examine particular research questions in Smart Grids from Decision and Control viewpoints. Some of our recent research projects in this field will be highlighted at the end.