Chao Chen

Chao Chen

Lecturer in Control Systems

Submitted Papers and Preprints

  1. Chao Chen, Sei Zhen Khong and Rodolphe Sepulchre, ‘‘Soft and hard scaled relative graphs for nonlinear feedback stability,’’ submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024. arXiv:2504.14407
  2. Chao Chen, Thomas Chaffey and Rodolphe Sepulchre, ‘‘Graphical dominance analysis for linear Systems: A frequency-domain approach,’’ submitted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2025. arXiv:2504.14394
  3. Sebastiaan van den Eijnden, Chao Chen, Koen Scheres, Thomas Chaffey and Alexander Lanzon, ‘‘On phase in scaled graphs,’’ submitted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2025. arXiv:2504.21448
  4. Chao Chen, Wei Chen, Di Zhao, Jianqi Chen and Li Qiu, ‘‘A cyclic small phase theorem,’’ submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, also in arXiv, 2023. arXiv:2312.00956
  5. Chao Chen, Di Zhao, Wei Chen, Sei Zhen Khong and Li Qiu, ‘‘Phase of nonlinear systems,’’ submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, also in arXiv, 2021. arXiv:2012.00692

Journal Papers

  1. Chao Chen, Di Zhao and Sei Zhen Khong, ‘‘The singular angle of nonlinear systems,’’ conditionally accepted by Automatica, 2025.
  2. Sei Zhen Khong, Chao Chen* and Alexander Lanzon, ‘‘Feedback stability analysis via dissipativity with dynamic supply rates,’’ Automatica, vol. 172, Art. 112000, 2025. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2024.112000
  3. Jianqi Chen, Qi Mao, Di Zhao and Chao Chen, ‘‘Robust stability and stabilizability conditions of time-delay systems against stochastic uncertainty,’’ IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024. doi:10.1109/TAC.2024.3524239
  4. Jianqi Chen, Wei Chen, Chao Chen and Li Qiu, ‘‘Phase preservation of N-port networks under general connections,’’ IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 2346 – 2361, 2025. doi:10.1109/TAC.2024.3484229
  5. Di Zhao, Chao Chen* and Jianqi Chen, ‘‘Small gain and small angle conditions for feedback stability analysis of linear stochastic systems,’’ IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 3349 – 3356, 2024. doi:10.1109/TAC.2023.3324262
  6. Di Zhao, Chao Chen* and Sei Zhen Khong, ‘‘A frequency-domain approach to nonlinear negative imaginary systems analysis,’’ Automatica, vol. 146, Art. 110604, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110604

Conference Papers

  1. Chao Chen and Rodolphe Sepulchre, ‘‘The Hilbert distance between LTI passive systems,’’ in Proc. 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, 2024, pp. 8138 – 8143. online
  2. Chao Chen, Jianqi Chen, Di Zhao and Li Qiu, ‘‘A cyclic small phase theorem for nonlinear systems,’’ in Proc. 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, 2024, pp. 4405 – 4410. online
  3. Chao Chen, Wei Chen, Di Zhao, Jianqi Chen and Li Qiu, ‘‘A cyclic small phase theorem for MIMO LTI systems,’’ in Proc. 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, 2023, pp. 1883 – 1888. online
  4. Chao Chen, Di Zhao, Wei Chen and Li Qiu, ‘‘A nonlinear small phase theorem,’’ in Late Breaking Results of 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2020. online
  5. Chao Chen, Di Zhao and Li Qiu, ‘‘Nonovershooting regulation of an under-sensed and under-actuated linear inverted pendulum,’’ in Proc. 16th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Shenzhen, China, 2020, pp. 784 – 788. online
  6. Chao Chen, Di Zhao and Li Qiu, ‘‘Control of an under-sensed and under-actuated linear inverted pendulum,’’ in Proc. 57th Annual Conference of SICE, Nara, Japan, 2018, pp. 1301 – 1306. online

Book Chapters

  1. Di Zhao, Chao Chen, Sei Zhen Khong and Li Qiu, ‘‘Robust control against uncertainty quartet: A polynomial approach,’’ in Uncertainty in Complex Networked Systems, T. Basar, Ed. Cham, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2018, pp. 149 – 178. online