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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Canada
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
85
Citations
27402
World Ranking
148
National Ranking
8

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
84
Citations
27316
World Ranking
409
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Youmin Zhang is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and computer science over a prolific publication record.

Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with subfields including Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Networks and Communications, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The major topics covered in their work include Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems, Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Fault Detection and Control Systems, Guidance and Control Systems, Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control, and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots.

Youmin Zhang has published papers in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems

Selected recent publications that feature their work are:

  • "Adaptive Unimodal Cost Volume Filtering for Deep Stereo Matching" (2020), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "A Comprehensive Review on Signal-Based and Model-Based Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines: Fault Diagnosis and Lifetime Prognosis" (2022), Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "Formation control and coordination of multiple unmanned ground vehicles in normal and faulty situations: A review" (2020), Annual Reviews in Control
  • "Optimization-Based Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Parking With Irregularly Placed Obstacles: A Lightweight Iterative Framework" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • "Active fault-tolerant control for a quadrotor helicopter against actuator faults and model uncertainties" (2020), Aerospace Science and Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Youmin Zhang include:

  • Ziquan Yu
  • Lingxia Mu
  • Xiang Yu
  • Bin Jiang
  • Chun-Yi Su

Best Publications

  • Bibliographical review on reconfigurable fault-tolerant control systems

    Youmin Zhang;Jin Jiang

  • Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges

    Zhixiang Liu;Youmin Zhang;Xiang Yu;Chi Yuan

  • A survey on technologies for automatic forest fire monitoring, detection, and fighting using unmanned aerial vehicles and remote sensing techniques

    Chi Yuan;Youmin Zhang;Zhixiang Liu

  • Active Fault Tolerant Control Systems: Stochastic Analysis and Synthesis

    Mufeed M. Mahmoud;Jin Jiang;Youmin Zhang

  • Adaptive Sliding Mode Fault Tolerant Attitude Tracking Control for Flexible Spacecraft Under Actuator Saturation

    Bing Xiao;Qinglei Hu;Youmin Zhang

  • Active fault-tolerant control system against partial actuator failures

    Y.M. Zhang;J. Jiang

  • Detection and diagnosis of sensor and actuator failures using IMM estimator

    Y. Zhang;X.R. Li

  • Integrated active fault-tolerant control using IMM approach

    Youmin Zhang;Jin Jiang

  • Sense and avoid technologies with applications to unmanned aircraft systems: Review and prospects

    Xiang Yu;Youmin Zhang

  • Fault tolerant control system design with explicit consideration of performance degradation

    Youmin Zhang;Jin Jiang

  • Detection, estimation, and accommodation of loss of control effectiveness

    N. Eva Wu;Youmin Zhang;Kemin Zhou

  • The Design of Fixed-Time Observer and Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Control for Hypersonic Gliding Vehicles

    Xiang Yu;Peng Li;Youmin Zhang

  • Development of advanced FDD and FTC techniques with application to an unmanned quadrotor helicopter testbed

    Youmin Zhang;Abbas Chamseddine;Camille Alain Rabbath;Brandon W. Gordon

  • Fault tolerant control of a quadrotor UAV using sliding mode control

    Farid Sharifi;Mostafa Mirzaei;Brandon W. Gordon;Youmin Zhang

  • DOB-Based Neural Control of Flexible Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Considering Wind Effects

    Bin Xu;Danwei Wang;Youmin Zhang;Zhongke Shi

  • UAV-based forest fire detection and tracking using image processing techniques

    Chi Yuan;Zhixiang Liu;Youmin Zhang

  • Flatness-Based Trajectory Planning/Replanning for a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    Abbas Chamseddine;Youmin Zhang;C. A. Rabbath;C. Join

  • A comparison of the role of two blue―green algae in THM and HAA formation

    J. Huang;N. Graham;M.R. Templeton;Y. Zhang;Y. Zhang

  • Aerial Images-Based Forest Fire Detection for Firefighting Using Optical Remote Sensing Techniques and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Chi Yuan;Zhixiang Liu;Youmin Zhang

  • Experimental Test of a Two-Stage Kalman Filter for Actuator Fault Detection and Diagnosis of an Unmanned Quadrotor Helicopter

    M. Hadi Amoozgar;Abbas Chamseddine;Youmin Zhang

  • Distributed Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Containment Control for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Ziquan Yu;Zhixiang Liu;Youmin Zhang;Yaohong Qu

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Theilliol
Didier Theilliol University of Lorraine
Xiang Yu
Xiang Yu Beihang University
Jin Jiang
Jin Jiang University of Western Ontario
Bin Jiang
Bin Jiang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Qinglei Hu
Qinglei Hu Beihang University
Chun-Yi Su
Chun-Yi Su Concordia University
X. Rong Li
X. Rong Li University of New Orleans
Subhash Rakheja
Subhash Rakheja Concordia University
Cédric Join
Cédric Join University of Lorraine
Jun Luo
Jun Luo Chinese Academy of Sciences

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