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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
32
Citations
4018
World Ranking
6353
National Ranking
910

Overview

Donghai Li is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a predominant focus on control and systems engineering. Their research spans various subfields including mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computational mechanics, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Li's work often centers on advanced control systems, with specific emphasis on optimization, design, and fault detection. Additional areas of interest include extremum seeking control systems, iterative learning control systems, adaptive control of nonlinear systems, and microgrid control and optimization.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Li include YangQuan Chen, Zhenlong Wu, Gengjin Shi, Shaojie Liu, and Yanhong Liu, indicating a consistent network of research partnerships.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Donghai Li are as follows:

  • Quantitative Tuning of Active Disturbance Rejection Controller for FOPTD Model With Application to Power Plant Control, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • Electron beam freeform fabrication of NiTi shape memory alloys: Crystallography, martensitic transformation, and functional response, 2022, Materials Science and Engineering A
  • On transitioning from PID to ADRC in thermal power plants, 2021, Control Theory and Technology
  • Solidification characterization and its correlation with the mechanical properties and functional response of NiTi shape memory alloy manufactured by electron beam freeform fabrication, 2021, Additive Manufacturing
  • Performance Analysis of Improved ADRCs for a Class of High-Order Processes With Verification on Main Steam Pressure Control, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Li's research outputs have appeared regularly in publication venues including IFAC-PapersOnLine, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, ISA Transactions, Processes, and Control Engineering Practice. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary and application-driven nature of their work within control systems and related engineering fields.

Best Publications

  • On Tuning and Practical Implementation of Active Disturbance Rejection Controller: A Case Study from a Regenerative Heater in a 1000 MW Power Plant

    Li Sun;Donghai Li;Kangtao Hu;Kwang Y. Lee

  • Quantitative Tuning of Active Disturbance Rejection Controller for FOPTD Model With Application to Power Plant Control

    Li Sun;Wenchao Xue;Donghai Li;Hongxia Zhu

  • Active disturbance rejection control for the ALSTOM gasifier benchmark problem

    Chun-E Huang;Donghai Li;Yali Xue

  • Tuning method for second-order active disturbance rejection control

    Xing Chen;Donghai Li;Zhiqiang Gao;Chuanfeng Wang

  • On disturbance rejection in magnetic levitation

    Wei Wei;Wenchao Xue;Donghai Li

  • Combined feedforward and model-assisted active disturbance rejection control for non-minimum phase system.

    Li Sun;Donghai Li;Zhiqiang Gao;Zhao Yang

  • Active disturbance rejection control for fractional-order system

    Mingda Li;Donghai Li;Jing Wang;Chunzhe Zhao;Chunzhe Zhao

  • A Practical Multivariable Control Approach Based on Inverted Decoupling and Decentralized Active Disturbance Rejection Control

    Li Sun;Junyi Dong;Donghai Li;Kwang Y. Lee

  • Multi-objective optimization for advanced superheater steam temperature control in a 300 MW power plant

    Li Sun;Qingsong Hua;Jiong Shen;Yali Xue

  • Coordinated Control Strategies for Fuel Cell Power Plant in a Microgrid

    Li Sun;Guiying Wu;Yali Xue;Jiong Shen

  • Superheated steam temperature control based on modified active disturbance rejection control

    Zhenlong Wu;Ting He;Donghai Li;Yali Xue

  • On transitioning from PID to ADRC in thermal power plants

    Zhenlong Wu;Zhiqiang Gao;Donghai Li;YangQuan Chen

  • A Tuning Method of Active Disturbance Rejection Control for a Class of High-Order Processes

    Ting He;Zhenlong Wu;Donghai Li;Jihong Wang

  • Control design for the SISO system with the unknown order and the unknown relative degree

    Chunzhe Zhao;Chunzhe Zhao;Donghai Li

  • Load frequency control in deregulated environments via active disturbance rejection

    Wen Tan;Yuchun Hao;Donghai Li

  • Enhanced decentralized PI control for fluidized bed combustor via advanced disturbance observer

    Li Sun;Donghai Li;Kwang Y. Lee

  • Control of a Class of Industrial Processes With Time Delay Based on a Modified Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator

    Li Sun;Donghai Li;Qing-Chang Zhong;Kwang Y. Lee

  • Direct energy balance based active disturbance rejection control for coal-fired power plant.

    Li Sun;Qingsong Hua;Donghai Li;Lei Pan

  • Optimal disturbance rejection for PI controller with constraints on relative delay margin.

    Li Sun;Donghai Li;Kwang Y. Lee

  • Control-oriented modeling and analysis of direct energy balance in coal-fired boiler-turbine unit

    Li Sun;Donghai Li;Kwang Y. Lee;Yali Xue

  • Input Shaping enhanced Active Disturbance Rejection Control for a twin rotor multi-input multi-output system (TRMS).

    Xiaoyan Yang;Jianwei Cui;Dazhong Lao;Donghai Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Kwang Y. Lee
Kwang Y. Lee Baylor University
YangQuan Chen
YangQuan Chen University of California, Merced
Zhiqiang Gao
Zhiqiang Gao Cleveland State University
Furong Gao
Furong Gao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Qing-Chang Zhong
Qing-Chang Zhong Illinois Institute of Technology
Wook Hyun Kwon
Wook Hyun Kwon Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology

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