Atombot Project

Advisor: Y Z.

• Designed and manufactured atombot-hydrogen electrically and mechanically.
• Realized simultaneous control for multiple robots with a central server.
• Built a self-made motion capture system for multi-robot tracking.

Human Balancing on a Log: A Switched Multi-Layer Controller

Jiayi Zhao, Mo Yang, Jing Shuang (Lisa) Li. (2024). Accepted by American Control Conference. Preprint available.

Advisor: Jing Shuang (Lisa) Li.

• Build a bio-mechanical human model of postural balancing on a log with muscle force as input.
• Developed LQR and LQG for baseline controller to understand human behavior.
• Raised a discrete-output-state LQR/LQG model correspond to simple calculation in spiking neuronal network.

Ignition Delay Prediction for Fuels with Diverse Molecular Structures Using Transfer Learning-Based Neural Networks

Mo Yang, Dezhi Zhou. (2025). Energy and AI, Volume 19, 100467.

Advisor: Dezhi Zhou.

• Build artificial neural network and graph neural network model to predict the ignition delay of a certain kind of fuel.
• Explored a transfer learning method aimed at predicting ignition delay for various fuels with different molecular structure.

Course Projects

Integrating Circle Criterion into State-feedback H-2/H-infinity Control Frameworks, Course Project for ECE 598 Convex Optimization Methods in Control at Umich. [Slides] [Report]

Control strategy of Human’s Postural Balancing on a Log, Course Project for EECS 598/498 Control Theory and Bio/Sensorimotor System at Umich. [Slides]

Flipping Tennis Racket: Intermediate-axes Stability of Rigid Body and Control, Presentation for Directed Reading Program of Department of Mathematics at Umich. [Slides]

HeartCam: Real-Time Heart Rate Detection, Course Project for EECS 442 Computer Vision at Umich. [Demo]

Flow Can Positively Affect Subjective Well-being, Course Project for PSYC 3620 Psycology Research Methods at SJTU. [Slides] [Poster]

Null Sky: A Brick Breaker Game Developed with Elm, Course Project for ENGR 100 Introduction to Engineering at SJTU. [Game Website] [Course Website]

Brave the Castle: A Card-based Roguelike Game Developed with Elm, Course Project for ENGR 100 Introduction to Engineering at SJTU. [Game Website] [Course Website]

Notes

MATH 658 Nonlinear Dynamics, Geometric Mechenism, and Control, WN2024, University of Michigan, taught by Anthony Bloch. (Notes)

ECE 598 Convex Optimization Methods in Control, FA 2024, University of Michigan,taught by Peter Seiler.

MATH 526 Discrete Stochastic Process, FA2023, University of Michigan, taught by Melih Iseri. (Notes)