Faculty

HE Xiao

Professor

Doctoral Supervisor

Institute of Control and Decision

Email:hexiao@tsinghua.edu.cn

Location:Central Main Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

Education Background


Dept. Electronic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, B.E. Degree Sep. 2000-Jun. 2004

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Ph.D. Degree Sep. 2004 - Jan. 2010


Work Experience


Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Tenured Professor Dec. 2021 - present

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Deputy Dean Dec. 2019 – May 2023

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Tenured Associate Professor Jul. 2018 – Dec.2021

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University Beijing, Tenure Track Associate Professor Dec. 2014 - Jun. 2018

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University Beijing, Lecturer Nov. 2011 - Dec. 2014

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hongkong, Researcher Associate Feb. 2011 - Apr. 2011

Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Jan. 2010 - Nov. 2011


Research Interests


Filtering, Control and Fault Diagnosis of Robot Swarms (2007-present)

Model-based fault detection for networked systems

Fault detection & diagnosis for quadrotors swarms

Fault-tolerance formation control of quadrotor swarms

Intelligent Cooperative control for humanoid robot swarms

Fault Diagnosis for Control Systems of High-Speed Trains (2014-present)

Diagnosis of intermittent faults

Intelligent Diagnosis of incipient faults

Fault diagnosis in a closed-loop environment

Data-driven fault diagnosis for brake control systems

Fault Tolerant Control of Deep-Sea Human Occupied Vehicles (2018-present)

Active fault detection and diagnosis of dynamic systems

Intelligent Fault tolerant control of complex systems

Safety assessment of human-in-the-loop systems


Academic / Social Activities and Memberships


Professional Committee on Intelligent Control and Systems of Chinese Institute of Command and Control, Vice Chair, 2022 – present

Advisory Committee on Discipline Development of Tsinghua University, Member, 2020 – present

Member of “New Generation Information Technology Service Expert Group” of Chinese Association of Automation, 2020 – present

Beijing Association of Automation, Managing Director, 2020 – present

IEEE, Senior Member, 2020 – present

IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (IFAC TC6.4 SAFEPROCESS), Committee Member, 2018 – 2021

Working Committee on Internet-of-Things, Chinese Association of Instrument and Control, Standing Director, 2017 - present

Professional Committee on Cloud-based Control and Decision, Chinese Association of Command and Control, Vice Chair, 2017 – present

Professional Committee on Fault Diagnosis and Safety of Technical Process, Chinese Association of Automation, Secretary General, 2018 – present

Professional Committee on Control and Decision of Cyber-Physical Systems, Chinese Association of Automation, Committee Member, 2017 – present

Working Committee on Youth, Chinese Association of Automation, Standing Committee Member, 2017 – present

Professional Committee on Information Security of Industrial Control Systems, Chinese Association of Automation, Committee Member, 2016 – present

Professional Committee on Process Control, Chinese Association of Automation, Committee Member, 2016 – present

Professional Committee on Intelligent Control and Systems, Chinese Association of Command and Control, Committee Member, 2016 – present

Executive Committee of 13th AUVAI International Aerial Robotics Competition (Asia-Pacific Region), Deputy Director, 2013

Chinese Association of Automation, Senior Member, 2013 - present

Committee of Intelligent Networked Things, China Association for System Simulation, Committee Member, 2013

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Ful l Member, 2013 – present


Editorial Board Members


IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Associate Editor, 2024 - present

Science China - Information Sciences, Guest Editor, Oct. 2019 - Apr. 2020

Control Engineering Practice, Associate Editor, 2018 - present

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Editorial Board Member, 2018 - present

Control Engineering (A Chinese Journal), Editorial Board Member, 2017 – present

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Editorial Board Member, 2016 - present

Journal of Control Science and Engineering, Editorial Board Member / Lead Guest Editor, 2014 - present

Abstract and Applied Analysis, Guest Editor, 2014 - 2015

Journal of The Franklin Institute, Associate Editor, 2013 - 2017

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Guest Editor, 2013 - 2014

Systems Science & Control Engineering, Editorial Board Member, 2012 - present

Journal of Engineering, Editorial Board Member, 2012 – present


Honors / Awards


Beijing Natural Science Award (2nd Class, leading scholar), 2023

Zhejiang Scientific and Technological Progress (1st Class), 2023

Science and Technology Award of China Occupational Safety and Health Association (1st Class), 2023

Shandong Province Natural Science Award (2nd Class), 2022

Technical invention Award of Chinese Association of Automation (1st Class), 2022

Academician Zhang Zhongjun Outstanding Paper Award, 2022

Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor Award of Chinese Association of Automation, 2022

First Prize of CAA SAFEPROCESS Fang Chong-Zhi Excellent Paper Award, 2021

Young Scientist Award, Chinese Association of Automation, 2021

Excellent Worker of Chinese Association of Automation (11 people in China), 2020

Natural Science Award of Chinese Association of Automation (1st Class), 2020

Advanced Worker of Tsinghua University (3 people in Department of Automation), 2019

Qilin Award (Capital Excellent Science and Technology Innovation Award), 2019

Excellent Recruiting Teacher of Tsinghua University, 2018

Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor Award of Chinese Association of Automation, 2018

Science and Technology Progress Award of Jilin Province of China (1st Class), 2018

Science and Technology Progress Award of China National Association for Automation in Petroleum and Chemical Industry (1st Class), 2017

Science and Technology Award of Guangdong Province of China (2nd Class), 2017

Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor Award of Tsinghua University (Top level, the only one in the Department of Automation), 2017

Higher Education Achievement Award of Chinese Association of Automation (2nd Class), 2016

Natural Science Award of Chinese Association of Automation (1st Class), 2015

Excellent Class Adviser of Tsinghua University, 2015

Outstanding Reviewer of System Science & Control Engineering, 2015

Finalist for the Paul Frank Best Theory Paper Award of the 8th I FAC SAFEPROCESS, 2012

Natural Science Award of Chinese Association of Automation (1st Class), 2011

Grants-In-Aid of Research Award, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2010

Outstanding reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2010

Recipient of the IFAC Foundation Young Authors Support Program, 2008


Publications: Selected Journal papers


[1] Chen Gao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He*, Dong Yue, Sampled-data-based fault-tolerant consensus control for multi-agent systems: a data privacy preserving scheme, Automatica (regular paper), accepted.

[2] Chen Gao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He*, Hongli Dong, Encryption-decryption-based consensus control for multi-agent systems: handling actuator faults, Automatica, Accepted.

[3] Zeyi Liu, Yong Deng, Yi Zhang, Zhongjun Ding, Xiao He*, Safety Assessment of dynamic systems: an evidential group interaction-based fusion design, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, online, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2021.3101317.

[4] Chen Gao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He*, Hongli Dong, Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control for Multi-agent Systems: An Encryption-Decryption Scheme, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, online, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3079407.

[5] Yinghong Zhao, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou*, Michael G. Pecht, Detection and isolation of wheelset intermittent over-creeps for electric multiple units based on a weighted moving average technique, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, online, DOI:10.1109/TITS.2020.3036102.

[6] Chen Gao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He*, Qinglong Han, Consensus Control of Linear Multi-agent Systems under Actuator Imperfection: When Saturation Meets Fault, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, online, DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2021.3050370.

[7] Chen Gao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He*, Qinglong Han, On Global Consensus of Second-Order Multi-agent Systems with Actuator Saturations: A Generalized-Nyquist-Criterion-Based Approach, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, online, DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2020.3025824.

[8] Jingfei Zhang, Qinghua Zhang, Xiao He*, Guoxi Sun, Donghua Zhou, Compound-fault diagnosis of rotating machinery: a fused imbalance learning method, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1462-1474, 2021.

[9] Yinghong Zhao, Xiao He, Junfeng Zhang, Hongquan Ji, Donghua Zhou*, Michael G. Pecht. Detection of intermittent faults based on an optimally weighted moving average T2 control chart with stationary observations. Automatica(regular paper), vol. 123, pp.109298, 2021.

[10] Maiying Zhong*, Steven X. Ding, Donghua Zhou, Xiao He, An H-1/H-infinity optimization approach to event-triggered fault detection for linear discrete time systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 4464-4471, 2020.

[11] Donghua Zhou*, Yinghong Zhao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Ming Gao, Review on diagnosis techniques for intermittent faults in dynamic systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 2337-2347, 2020.

[12] Jianxun Zhang, Changhua Hu, Xiao He, Xiaosheng Si, Yang Liu, Donghua Zhou*, A novel lifetime estimation method for two-phase degrading systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 689-709, 2019.

[13] Qinyuan Liu*, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou, Event-based distributed filtering over Markovian switching topologies, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1595-1602, 2019.

[14] Qinyuan Liu, Zidong Wang*, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou, On Kalman-consensus filtering with random link failures over sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 2701-2708, 2018.

[15] Qinyuan Liu*, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou, Event-triggered resilient filtering with measurement quantization and random sensor failures: monotonicity and convergence, Automatica, vol. 94, pp.458-464, 2018.

[16] Donghua Zhou*, Hongquan Ji, Xiao He, Jun Shang, Fault detection and isolation of the brake cylinder system for electric multiple units, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp.1744-1757, 2018.

[17] Junfeng Zhang, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou*. Filtering for stochastic uncertain systems with non-logarithmic sensor resolution. Automatica, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 194-200, 2018.

[18] Qinyuan Liu, Zidong Wang*, Xiao He, Gheorghita Ghinea, Fuad E. Alsaadi, A resilient approach to distributed filter design for time-varying systems under stochastic nonlinearities and sensor degradation, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 1300-1309, 2017.

[19] Xiao He*, Zidong Wang, Yang Liu, Liguo Qin, Donghua Zhou, Fault tolerant control for an Internet-based three-tank system: accommodation to sensor bias faults, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 2266-2275, 2017.

[20] Xiao He*, Zidong Wang, Liguo Qin, Donghua Zhou, Active fault tolerant control for an Internet-based networked three-tank system, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 2150-2157, 2016.

[21] Yang Liu, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Donghgua Zhou*. Minimum-variance recursive filtering over sensor networks with stochastic sensor gain degradation: algorithms and performance analysis, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 265-274, 2016.

[22] Qinyuan Liu*, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou, Event-based H-infinity consensus control of multi-agent systems with relative output feedback: the finite-horizon case. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 60, no. 9, pp. 2553-2558, 2015.

[23] Qinyuan Liu*, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou, Event-based recursive distributed filtering over wireless sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 60, no. 9, pp.2470-2475, 2015.

[24] Qinyuan Liu, Zidong Wang*, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou, Event-based distributed filtering with stochastic measurement fading, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1643-1652, 2015.

[25] Yang Liu, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Donghua Zhou*, Filtering and fault detection for nonlinear systems with polynomial approximation. Automatica, vol. 54, pp. 348-359, 2015.

[26] Xiao He*, Zidong Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Donghua Zhou, Networked strong tracking filtering with multiple packet dropouts: algorithms and applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 1454-1463, 2014.

[27] Yang Liu, Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Donghua Zhou*, Optimal filtering for networked systems with stochastic sensor gain degradation. Automatica, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1521-1525, 2014.

[28] Xiao He*, Zidong Wang, Yang Liu, Donghua Zhou, Least-squares fault detection and diagnosis for networked sensing systems using direct state estimation approach. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1670-1679, 2013.

[29] Donghua Zhou*, Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Guoping Liu, Yindong Ji, Leakage fault diagnosis for Internet-based three-tank system: an experimental study. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 857-870, 2012.

[30] Xiao He*, Zidong Wang, D. H. Zhou, Robust fault detection for networked systems with distributed sensors. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 166-177, 2011.

[31] Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Donghua Zhou*, Robust fault detection for networked systems with communication delay and data missing. Automatica, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2634-2639, 2009.

[32] Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Yindong Ji, Donghua Zhou*, Network-based fault detection for discrete-time state-delay systems: a new measurement model. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol.22, no.5, pp. 510-528, 2008.

[33] Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Donghua Zhou*, Robust H-infinity filtering for networked systems with multiple state delays. International Journal of Control, vol.80, no.8, pp.1217-1232, 2007.