Applications to Cyber-Physical Systems

I translate learning and data-driven control ideas to embodied and safety-critical systems, including autonomous mobility, energy networks, power electronics, aerospace systems, and transportation.

Publications

Niklas Persson, Feiran Zhao, Mojtaba Kaheni, Florian Dorfler, Alessandro V. Papadopoulos. "An adaptive data-enabled policy optimization approach for autonomous bicycle control." IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Early access, 2026.

Feiran Zhao, Ruohan Leng, Linbin Huang, Huanhai Xin, Keyou You, Florian Dorfler. "Direct adaptive control of grid-connected power converters via output-feedback data-enabled policy optimization." European Control Conference (ECC), pp. 2563-2568, 2025.

Xuerui Wang, Feiran Zhao, Andres Jurisson, Florian Dorfler, Roy S. Smith. "Unified Aeroelastic Flutter and Loads Control via Data-Enabled Policy Optimization." IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 61(5):11437-11449, 2025.

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You, Shiji Song, Wenyue Zhang, Laisheng Tong. "Suspension regulation of medium-low-speed maglev trains via deep reinforcement learning." IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2(4):341-351, 2021.

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You, Yunxin Fan, Gang Yan. "Velocity regulation for automatic train operation via meta-reinforcement learning." Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 1969-1974, 2020.

Feiran Zhao, Peng Jiang, Keyou You, Shiji Song, Wenyue Zhang, Laisheng Tong. "Setpoint tracking for the suspension system of medium-speed maglev trains via reinforcement learning." IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), pp. 1620-1625, 2019.