Publications   [By Category]   [By Year]

Journal Papers

  1. X. Yin*. “Verification of prognosability for labeled Petri nets,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, accepted and in press, 2018. [PDF]

  2. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “On the decidability and complexity of diagnosability for labeled Petri nets,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, accepted and in press, 2017. [PDF]

  3. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Synthesis of maximally-permissive supervisors for the range control problem,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(8):3914-3929, 2017. (Full Paper) [PDF]

  4. X. Yin*. “Supervisor synthesis for mealy automata with output functions: A model transformation approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(5):2576-2581, 2017. [PDF]

  5. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Decentralized supervisory control with intersection-based architecture,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61(11):3644-3650, 2016. [PDF]

  6. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “A uniform approach for synthesizing property-enforcing supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61(8): 2140-2154, 2016. (Full Paper) [PDF]

  7. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Synthesis of maximally permissive supervisors for partially observed discrete event systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61(5): 1239-1254, 2016. (Full Paper) [PDF]

  8. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Minimization of sensor activation in decentralized discrete event systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, conditionally accepted, 2017.

  9. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Verification complexity of a class of observational properties for modular discrete events systems,” Automatica, 83: 199-205, 2017. [PDF]

  10. X. Yin*. “Initial-state detectability of stochastic discrete-event systems with probabilistic sensor failures,” Automatica, 80: 127-134, 2017. [PDF]

  11. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “A new approach for the verification of infinite-step and K-step opacity using two-way observers,” Automatica, 80: 162-171, 2017. (Regular Paper) [PDF]

  12. X. Yin* and Z. Li. “Decentralized fault prognosis of discrete event systems with guaranteed performance bound,” Automatica, 69: 375-379, 2016. [PDF]

  13. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Codiagnosability and coobservability under dynamic observations: Transformation and verification,” Automatica, 61: 241-252, 2015. (Regular Paper) [PDF]

  14. X. Yin*. “A belief-evolution-based approach for online control of fuzzy discrete-event systems under partial observation,” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, accepted and in press, 2017. [PDF]

  15. X. Yin* and Z. Li. “Reliable decentralized fault prognosis of discrete-event systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 46(11):1598-1603, 2016. [PDF]

  16. Z. Li, S. Bao, I. Kolmanovsky and X. Yin*. “Visual distraction detection using driving performance indicators with naturalistic driving data,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, accepted and in press, 2018.

  17. Z. Li, T. Chu, I. Kolmanovsky and X. Yin*. “Training drift counteraction optimal control policies using reinforcement learning: An adaptive cruise control example,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, accepted and in press, 2018.

  18. Z. Li, T. Chu, I. Kolmanovsky and X. Yin*. “Cloud resource allocation for Vehicle-to-Cloud-to-Vehicle applications,” Mechatronics, conditionally accepted, 2017.

  19. X. Yin and Z. Li. “Decentralized fault prognosis of discrete-event systems using state-estimate-based protocols,” under review, 2017.

  20. X. Yin and S. Lafortune. “A general approach for optimizing dynamic sensor activations for discrete event systems,” under review, 2017.

  21. X. Yin and S. Lafortune. “Synthesis of maximally-permissive non-blocking supervisors for the lower-bound containment problem,” under review, 2017.

  22. T. Masopust, X. Yin. “Complexity of detectability, opacity and A-diagnosability for modular discrete event systems,” under review, 2017.

  23. Y. Ji, X. Yin and S. Lafortune. “Opacity enforcement using edit functions,” in preparation, 2017.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  1. X. Yin*, Z. Li, W. Wang and S. Li. “Infinite-step opacity of stochastic discrete-event systems,” in Asian Control Conference, Accepted, 2017.

  2. X. Yin*, M. Morrison, S.-Y. Sheng and S. Lafortune. “DPO-SYNT: Discrete control synthesis for partially-observed systems,” in 20th IFAC World Congress, pp. 6026-6029, 2017. [PDF]

  3. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “On the maximally-permissive range control problem in partially-observed discrete event systems,” in 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3923-3928, 2016. [PDF] [Slides]
    (Best Paper Award Finalist)

  4. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “On two-way observer and its application to the verification of infinite-step and K-step opacity,” in 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, pp. 361-366, 2016. (Invited Paper) [PDF] [Slides]

  5. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “On maximal permissiveness in partially-observed discrete event systems: Verification and synthesis,” in 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, pp. 1-7, 2016. [PDF] [Slides]
    (Best Paper Award Finalist)

  6. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “A general approach for solving dynamic sensor activation problems for a class of properties,” in 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3610-3615, 2015. [PDF] [Slides]

  7. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Minimization of sensor activation in decentralized fault diagnosis of discrete event systems,” in 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1014-1019, 2015. [PDF] [Slides]

  8. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “On the relationship between codiagnosability and coobservability under dynamic observations,” in American Control Conference, pp. 390-395, 2015. [PDF] [Slides]

  9. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “A new approach for enforcing opacity via supervisory control for partially-observed discrete-event systems,” in American Control Conference, pp. 377-383, 2015. [PDF] [Slides]

  10. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “Synthesis of maximally permissive non-blocking supervisors for partially observed discrete event systems,” in 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5156-5162, 2014. [PDF] [Slides]

  11. X. Yin* and S. Lafortune. “A general approach for synthesis of supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems,” in 19th IFAC World Congress, pp. 2422-2428, 2014. [PDF] [Slides]

  12. Z.-J. Li, X.-Y. Yin, X. Yin, and C.-H. Wang. “Distributed H-infinity filtering over multiple-channel sensor networks with markovian channel switching,” in 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7410-7415, 2015. [PDF]