WEI LIANG

1206 W Green St.Urbana, IL 61801217-384-0281 Email:  weiliang@uiuc.edu

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a position of control engineer with leading automotive company

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS    

Ph.D.,         Mechanical Engineering, expected Jun 2006

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

M.S.,          Automotive Engineering. July 2001

B.S.,           Automotive Engineering. July 1998

Urbana, IL

GPA 3.9/4

Bejing,China

GPA 91/100

EXPERIENCE

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Research Assistant

Intelligent Vehicle Control and Simulation

²        Designed cooperative robust control for vehicle steering system by quadratic Lyapunov function approach subject to large variation in mass and inertia as well as time-varying vehicle speed

²        Designed Loop Shaping H steering control for articulated vehicles with noisy reference signal

²        Simulated proposed controllers for autonomous vehicle in platoon tracking scenarios by using TruckSim/Simulink

Tire Modeling and Advanced Chassis Control

²        Working on vehicle lateral stability control subject to the coordinated braking and cornering force for autonomous vehicles in vehicle platoons

²        Developed a control-oriented LuGre-type tire model with emphasis on a good fit of bristle deflection and experimental data

²        Developed extended nonlinear bicycle models based on the derived 2-D tire model

Control Theory and Control System Design

²        Working on Linear Parameter Varying control application by using parameter-dependent Lyapunov approach

²        Developed a necessary condition for the solutions of HJB equation in nonlinear optimal control by introducing the Gradient Condition

²        Designed gain-scheduled robust controller for a boiler/turbine

Student Worker, Food Science

Development of Pressurized Food Process System

²        Designed a pressurized system for sonication experiment

²        Designed a innovative valve/syringe mechanism for high pressure sampling

Temperature Control for Food Process

²        Developed a Labview-based remote virtual control/monitoring instrument for on site temperature control module(Eurotherm 2404)

²        Designed a temperature control system using cooling water circulation controlled by continuous valve (IOtech)

2001-present

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer,2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Assistant

NVH(Noise Vibration and Harshness) Control

²        Set up dynamic model for Hydraulic Engine Mount(HEV) and simulated the dynamic performance in MATLAB/Simulink

²        Analyzed the dynamic stiffness and damping effect of rubber spring by using finite element analysis in MSC/Marc

²        Designed HEV/Rubber Mounts for Diesel Engine

²        Developed PC-based data measuring and analyzing system for HEV dynamic test

1998 – 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHIDI Medical Instrument Co., Beijing China

Software Engineer

²        Designed circuit board for embedded control system of biological instruments using Intel single chip process (80c552)

²        Developed the operation and control program using C language

1999 – 2000

 

 

RELATED CLASSES

Control System Design

Discrete Control System (Project: Gain-Scheduling Control for boiler turbine)

Nonlinear Control System Design

Dynamic System and Control Theory

Linear System Design Optimum Control Systems Multivariable Control System

Robust Control and Convex Method (Project: H2 and H Stabilizing Control Design for Pendulum)

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Random Process Nonlinear Constructive Control

Optimization

Linear and Nonlinear Programming Optimization in Vector Space

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

W. Liang and Jure Medanic. Cooperative Vehicle Tracking Control. In preparing

W. Liang, J.Medanic, R.Ruhl. A Control oriented Tire Model. Submitted to Vehicle System Dynamics

W. Liang, J. Medanic, R.Ruhl. Safety Concerns in Automatic Control of Heavy-Duty Articulated Vehicles. SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress, Oct 26-28, Rosemont, 2004

W. Liang, J. Medanic, R.Ruhl. A Study on Lateral Control of Automatic Heavy-Duty Vehicles. International Conference on Advances in Vehicle Control and Safety. Oct, Genova, Italy, 2004

Z.H. Lu, Wei Liang. Hydraulic Engine Mount Design. Journal of Automotive Engineering (SAE-China), Feb, 2002

SKILLS

Trucksim/Carsim, Matlab/Simulink, Mathematica, CAD/CAE Packages(AutoCAD, Pro/E, Ansys, MSC Marc), C/C++, Embedded System Design (DSP/MCU), Fortran, HTML, Scientific Workplace, Labview

LANGUAGE

English, Chinese(Mandarin)