Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Professor, Information Trust Institute
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Coordinated Science Lab
Arthur Davis Faculty Scholar, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

Recent Publications

Zhang, W., Hajbabaie, A., Amrouche, M., Li, Y., & Stipanovic, D. M. (2026). A closed-form avoidance control for safe maneuvering of multiple car-like vehicles. Automatica, 185, Article 112764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112764

Zhang, W., Wu, X., & Stipanović, D. M. (2026). Closed-Form Safety-Guaranteed Trajectory Tracking Control for Rear- and Front-Wheel-Driven Car-like Vehicles. Actuators, 15(2), Article 98. https://doi.org/10.3390/act15020098

Zhang, W., Yang, D., Stipanović, D. M., & Liu, J. (2026). Collision-free formation control of UAVs via closed-form event-triggered strategy and generalized p-norm distance. Aerospace Science and Technology, 168, Article 110808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2025.110808

Zhang, W., Shi, B., Zhang, Y., Stipanovic, D. M., & Liu, J. (2026). Dual-Region-Based Variable-Structure Avoidance Control Strategy for Multiple Car-Like Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 34(1), 215-230. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2025.3604861

Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Wan, Z., Jia, X., Stipanovic, D. M., & Liu, J. (2026). Event-Triggered Collision-Free Formation Control of Symmetric-Steering Vehicles Using Generalized p-Norm and Smooth Risk Metrics. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 23, 4960-4975. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2026.3660049

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