Dr Yifan Zhao
Research Assistant

 
Address:
Dr Yifan Zhao
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5551
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5683
Email: y.zhao @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 303, Sir Henry Stephenson Building

Research Interests
Publications

Research Interests

• Identification and modelling of nonlinear systems.
• Identification and modelling of Cellular Automata
• Image Segmentation and Objective Recongnization
• Crystal Growth
• Excitable Media
• Spatio-temporal systems

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Publications

1. Zhao, Y. & Billings, S.A. [2006] 'Neighbourhood Detection Using Mutual Information for the Identification of Cellular Automata', IEEE Transactions on systems Man and Cybernetics Part B, 36(2), 473-479.
2. Zhao, Y., Billings, S.A. & Routh, A. [2007] 'Identification of Excitable Media using Cellular Automata', International journal of bifurcation and chaos, Vol.17, No.1, 153-168.
3. Zhao, Y. & Billings, S.A. [2007] 'Identification of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction using Cellular Automata Models', International journal of bifurcation and chaos, Vol.17, No.5, 1687-1701.
4. Zhao, Y. & Billings, S. A. [2006] 'Identification of Hybrid Cellular Automata using Image Segmentation Methods', Report of Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, No. 936.
5. Zhao, Y. & Billings, S. A. [2007] 'The Identification of Cellular Automata', Journal of Cellular Automata, Vol.2, 47-65.
6. Zhao, Y., Billings, S. A. Coca, D., Ristic, R. & Matos, L. [2007] ' Identification of Crystal Growth using Cellular Automata Models', Report of department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, No. 953.
7. Zhao, Y., Billings, S. A. Coca, D., Ristic, R. & Matos, L. [2007] ' Identification of a Spatio-Temporal Model of Crystal Growth Based on Boundary Curvature', Report of department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, No. 965.
8. Wei, H. L., Billings, S. A. & Zhao, Y. [2007] 'A New Class of Multiscale Lattice Cell (MLC) Models for Spatio-Temporal Evolutionary Image Representation', Report of department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, No. 963.
9. Wei, H. L., Billings, S. A. & Zhao, Y. [2007] ' Generalised Additive Multiscale Wavelet Models Constructed Using Particle Swarm Optimisation and Mutual Information for Spatio-Temporal Evolutionary System Representation', Report of department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, No. 961.
10. Wei, H. L., Billings, S. A. & Zhao, Y. [2007] 'Lattice Dynamical Wavelet Neural Networks Implemented Using Particle Swarm Optimisation for Spatio-Temporal System Identification', Report of department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, No. 959.
11. Pan, Y., Billings, S. A. & Zhao, Y. [2007] 'The Identification of Coupled Map Lattice models for Autonomous Cellular Neural Network Patterns', To appear in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol.18, No.4.
12. Rossiter, A., Allen, S., Bacon, C., Zhao, Y., Zhang, B., & Pan, Y. 'Engaging Year 1 Students through Problem based Learning', American Control Conference, accepted.
13. Zhao, Y. & Ding, Y. [2002] 'Detection of the Moving Objective', Optical Technology, Vol.28, No.4, 311-317.
14. Zhao, Y. & Ding, Y. [2002] 'Objective Segmentation Algorithm based on local Histogram', Optical Technology, Vol.28, No.4, 309-311.
15. Zhao, Y. & Wei, H. [2001] 'Modelling and Simulation Credibility Analysis and Package Design for Simulation Verification', Computer Simulation, Vol.18, No.4, 41-44.

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