[Scientific projects, research achievements, awards, and patents]

Ø Representative Awards

n 2019, Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth Award

n 2019, China 10 Scientific and Technological Developments in Intelligent Manufacturing (Yongchun Fang and Ning Sun)

n 2020, Patent Award of Tianjin (Ning Sun, etc.)

n 2018, 1st Class Prize of Tianjin Natural Science Award (Yongchun Fang, Ning Sun, etc.)

n 2017, Golden Patent Award of Tianjin (Yongchun Fang, Ning Sun, etc.)

n 2016, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)

n 2017, Excellent team supervisor of the 15th “Challenge Cup” National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Work Competition

n 2019, Excellent innovation and entrepreneurship tutor of the 5th “Internet+” China Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

n 2016, Supervisor of the Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Tianjin (only 3 awardees in Nankai University)

Ø Student Awards Under the Supervision

n 2018, 11th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award

n 2019, Gold Award of the 5th “Internet+” China Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

n 2017, 1st Class Prize of the 15th “Challenge Cup” National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Work Competition

n 2017, “Xiaoping Science and Technology Innovation Team” (team supervisor)

n 2016, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Tianjin (only 3 awardees in Nankai University)

n 2016-2020, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Nankai University (consecutive 5 years)

Ø Student Scholarships

n 2017, 2018, Special Prize of Innovation Scholarship for University Students of Tianjin (twice)

n 2017, 2020, 2021, Special Scholarship of Nankai University and Top 10 Postgraduates of Nankai University (only 10 awardees for master and doctoral students each year)

n 2020, 2021, Zhou Enlai Scholarship of Nankai University (twice, highest honor for students in Nankai University)

n 2017-2021, National Scholarship for Postgraduates (consecutive 5 years)

ØScientific Projects

Professor Ning Sun is a principal investigator (PI) of more than 10 important scientific projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation (Key Project), National Key R&D Program, etc.

[Research achievements, monographs, textbooks, patents, etc.]

Many papers are selected as ESI hot paper & highly cited paper, and 15 representative papers are listed as follows:

[1] First author, Nonlinear tracking control of underactuated cranes with load transferring and lowering: Theory and experimentation, Automatica, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 2350-2357, 2014.

[2] First author, Energy coupling output feedback control of 4-DOF underactuated cranes with saturated inputs, Automatica, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1318-1325, May 2013.

[3] First author, Amplitude-saturated nonlinear output feedback antiswing control for underactuated cranes with double-pendulum cargo dynamics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 2135-2146, Mar. 2017.

[4] First author, Slew/translation positioning and swing suppression for 4-DOF tower cranes with parametric uncertainties: Design and hardware experimentation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 6407-6418, Oct. 2016.

[5] First author, Nonlinear continuous global stabilization control for underactuated RTAC systems: Design, analysis, and experimentation, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 1104-1115, Apr. 2017.

[6] First author, Adaptive nonlinear crane control with load hoisting/lowering and unknown parameters: Design and experiments, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 2107-2119, Oct. 2015.

[7] First author, A novel kinematic coupling-based trajectory planning method for overhead cranes, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 166-173, Feb. 2012.

[8] First author, Nonlinear stabilizing control for ship-mounted cranes with ship roll and heave movements: Design, analysis, and experiments, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMCS), vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 1781-1793, Oct. 2018.

[9] First author, Nonlinear antiswing control for crane systems with double-pendulum swing effects and uncertain parameters: Design and experiments, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1413-1422, July 2018.

[10] Corresponding author, Neural network-based adaptive antiswing control of an underactuated ship-mounted crane with roll motions and input dead zones, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 901-914, Mar. 2020.

[11] Corresponding author, New adaptive control methods for n-link robot manipulators with online gravity compensation: Design and experiments, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), in press, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3050371.

[12] First author, Nonlinear motion control of complicated dual rotary crane systems without velocity feedback: Design, analysis, and hardware experiments, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1017-1029, Apr. 2020.

[13] First author, Adaptive control for pneumatic artificial muscle systems with parametric uncertainties and unidirectional input constraints, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 969-979, Feb. 2020.

[14] First author, Dynamic feedback antiswing control of shipboard cranes without velocity measurement: Theory and hardware experiments, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 2879-2891, May 2019.

[15] First author, Tracking control for magnetic-suspension systems with online unknown mass identification, Control Engineering Practice (CEP), vol. 58, pp. 242-253, Jan. 2017.

[Courses taught]

Ø For undergraduates: “Modern Control Theory” and “Experiments of Modern Control Theory”

Ø For postgraduates: “Academic Norms and Essay Writing Guidance” and “Frontiers of Information Sciences”

[Professional affiliations]

Ø Associate Editor (editorial board member): IET Cyber-Systems & Robotics, IEEE Access, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, etc.

Ø Associate Editor: IEEE CDC, ACC, IEEE IROS 2020, and IEEE ICRA 2021.

Ø Others: IEEE Senior Member, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) Senior Member, etc. He is/was an organizing committee member of many international conferences, a procedure committee member of more than 10 international conferences, and a reviewer of more than 50 SCI journals.