Monograph:

Qiang Ling. Control Systems with Limited Feedback Information. ISBN: 978-3639130720, VDM Verlag, Apr. 2009.

 

Selected Journal Papers:

2024

[1] Tangjie Wu, Qiang Ling*. “Mixformer: Mixture transformer with hierarchical context for spatio-temporal wind speed forecasting”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 299: 117896, 2024.

[2] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Zhaokun Shu, Muhammad Usman, Majad Mansoor, Qiang Ling*. “Quantile-Transformed Multi-Attention Residual Framework (QT-MARF)  for Medium-term PV and Wind Power Prediction”. Renewable Energy, vol. 220: 119604, 2024.

[3] Maryam Ejaz, Qiang Ling*. “A new metaheuristic honey badger-based maximum energy harvesting algorithm for thermoelectric generation system under dynamic operating conditions”. Soft Computing, vol. 28: 4951–4966, 2024.

[4] Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Zaka-Ud-Din, Qiang Ling*. “Enhanced encoder–decoder architecture for visual perception multitasking of autonomous driving”. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 246: 123249, 2024.

[5] Yuan Liu, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered stabilization of linear systems under quantization and denial-of-service attacks”. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 34(2): 1196-1216, 2024.

[6] Xiangsheng Li, Manlu Liu*, Qiang Ling. “Pixel-Wise Gamma Correction Mapping for Low-Light Image Enhancement”. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 34(2): 681-694, 2024.

[7] Zefeng Lai, Tangjie Wu, Xihong Fei, Qiang Ling*. “BERT4ST: Fine-tuning pre-trained large language model for wind power forecasting”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol 307: 118331, 2024.

 

2023

[1] Na Lin, Qiang Ling*. “Dynamic Periodic Event-Triggered Consensus Protocols for Linear Multiagent Systems with Network Delay”. IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17(1): 1204-1215, 2023.

[2] Chenyi Wang, Qiang Ling*. Dynamic event-triggered output feedback control for networked Markovian jump systems under hybrid attacks. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 36(18): 14614-14629, 2023.

[3] Yufei Niu, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered sliding mode control for networked linear systems”. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 360: 1978-1999, 2023.

[4] Xihong Fei, Qiang Ling*. “Attention-based Global and Local Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Vehicle Emission Prediction”. Neurocomputing, vol. 521: 41-55, 2022.

[5] Xihong Fei, Zefeng Lai, Yi Fang*, Qiang Ling. “A Dual Attention-based Fusion Network for Long- and Short-Term Multivariate Vehicle Exhaust Emission Prediction”. Science of the Total Environment, vol. 860: 160490, 2023.

[6] Tangjie Wu, Qiang Ling*. “Self-supervised heterogeneous hypergraph network for knowledge tracing”. Information Sciences, vol. 624: 200-216, 2023.

[7] Tangjie Wu, Qiang Ling*. “Fusing hybrid attentive network with self-supervised dual-channel heterogeneous graph for knowledge tracing”. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 225: 120212, 2023.

[8] Ce Zhou, Qiang Ling*. “GAF-Net: Geometric Contextual Feature Aggregation and Adaptive Fusion for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation”. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61: 5705815, 2023.

[9] Jian Wang, Qiang Ling*, Peiyan Li.Robust Video Stabilization based on Motion Decomposition”. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. , vol. 19(5): 164, 2023.

[10] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Majad Mansoor, Muhammad Usman, Qiang Ling*. “Hybrid Inception-embedded deep neural network ResNet for short and medium-term PV-Wind forecasting”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 294: 117574, 2023.

[11] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Majad Mansoor, Muhammad Usman, Qiang Ling*. “A comprehensive approach for PV wind forecasting by using hyperparameter tuned GCVCNN-MRNN deep learning model”. Energy, vol. 283: 129189, 2023.

[12] Zefeng Lai, Qiang Ling*. “A dual spatio-temporal network for short-term wind power forecasting”. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, vol. 60: 103486, 2023.

[13] Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Muhammad Usman, Qiang Ling*. “Hybrid forecasting models for wind-PV systems in diverse geographical locations: Performance and power potential analysis”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 287: 117080, 2023.

2022

[1] Yuan Liu, Qiang Ling*. “Stabilizing bit rate conditions for a scalar linear event-triggered system with Markov dropouts”. Automatica, vol. 146: 110635, 2022.

[2] Shaojie Lan, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered stabilization of multi-dimensional nonlinear systems under communication constraints”. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 32(2): 1004-1025, 2022.

[3] Na Lin, Qiang Ling*. “Bit-Rate Conditions for the Consensus of Quantized Multiagent Systems Based on Event Triggering”. IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, vol. 52(1): 116-127, 2022.

[4] Xianghua Jiang, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered Stabilization of a Linear System with Model Uncertainty and i.i.d. Feedback Dropouts”. IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, vol. 52(2): 796-809, 2022.

[5] Yuan Liu, Qiang Ling*. “Event-Triggered Stabilizing Bit Rate Conditions for an n-Dimensional Linear System with i.i.d. Feedback Dropouts”. IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, vol. 52(8): 8032-8046, 2022.

[6] Yuan Liu, Qiang Ling*. “Quantized stabilization of eventtriggered systems under independent and identical distributed packet dropouts”. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 32(14): 7860-7878, 2022.

[7] Na Lin, Qiang Ling*. “An event-triggered consensus protocol for quantized second-order multi-agent systems with network delay and process noise”. ISA Transactions, vol. 125, 31-41, 2022.

[8] Rui Chen, Jin Zhu*, Qiang Ling. “Event-triggered stabilization of uncertain scalar switched linear systems with bounded network delay”. ISA Transactions, vol. 129: 28-40, 2022.

[9] Chunlin Chen, Jun Yu, Qiang Ling*.Sparse Attention Block: Aggregating Contextual Information for Object Detection, Pattern Recognition, vol. 124, 108418, 2022.

2021

[1] Jiayu Chen, Qiang Ling*. “Bit-rate Conditions for the Consensus of Quantized Multiagent Systems with Network-Induced Delays based on Event Triggering”. IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, vol. 51(2), 984-993, 2021.

[2] Rundong Dou, Qiang Ling*. “Model-Based Periodic Event-Triggered Control Strategy to Stabilize a Scalar Nonlinear System”. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 51(9): 5322-5335, 2021.

[3] Menglei Zhang, Qiang Ling*. Bilateral Upsampling Network for Single Image Super-Resolution with Arbitrary Scaling Factors, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 30, 4395-4408, 2021.

[4] Feng Tang, Qiang Ling*. Learning to Rank Proposals for Siamese Visual Tracking, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 30: 8785-8796, 2021.

[5] Menglei Zhang, Qiang Ling*. Supervised Pixel-Wise GAN for Face Super-Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Multimediavol. 23, 1938-1950, 2021.

[6] Minda Zhao, Qiang Ling*. Adaptively Meshed Video Stabilization, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 31(9), 3504 - 3517, 2021.

[7] Zefeng Lai, Lei Wang*, Qiang Ling. Recurrent Knowledge Tracing Machine based on the Knowledge State of Students, Expert Systems, vol. 38(11), e12782, 2021. 

[8] Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Shihui Duan, Jin Zhu, Baoqun Yin, Qiang Ling*. “Maximum energy harvesting of centralized thermoelectric power generation systems with non-uniform temperature distribution based on novel equilibrium optimizer”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 246: 114694, 2021.

[9] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Majad Mansoor, Keyu Zhan, Qiang Ling*. “High-Efficiency Swarm Intelligent Maximum Power Point Tracking Control Techniques for Varying Temperature and Irradiance”. Energy, vol. 228: 120602, 2021.

[10] Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Fei Long, Qiang Ling*. “An Intelligent Tunicate Swarm Algorithm based MPPT control strategy for Multiple Configurations of PV systems under Partial Shading Conditions”. Advanced Theory and Simulations, vol. 4(12), 2100246, 2021.

2020

[1] Qiang Ling. “Necessary and sufficient bit rate conditions to stabilize a scalar continuous-time LTI system based on event triggering”. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 65(4): 1598–1612, 2020.

[2] Na Lin, Rundong Dou, Qiang Ling*. “Bit rate conditions to stabilise a scalar linear system with measurement noise based on event triggering”. International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 51(4): 655-668, 2020.

[3] Muhammad Imran Shahid, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered distributed dynamic output-feedback dissipative control of multi-weighted and multi-delayed large-scale systems”. ISA Transactions, vol. 96:116-131, 2020.

[4] Muhammad Imran Shahid, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered distributed fault detection and control of multi-weighted and multi-delayed large-scale systems”. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 357(10): 6041-6082, 2020.

[5] Rundong Dou, Qiang Ling*, Yuan Liu, Jiayu Chen, Shijian Shen. “Sufficient Stabilizing Bit Rate Conditions for an n-Dimensional Nonlinear System Based on Event Triggering”. ISA Transactions, vol. 105, 146-156, 2020.

[6] Rui Chen, Qiang Ling*. “Event-triggered feedback stabilisation of switched linear systems under finite bit rates”. IET Control Thoery & Applications, vol. 14(20), 3428-3439, 2020.

[7] Minda Zhao, Qiang Ling*. PWStableNet: Learning Pixel-Wise Warping Maps for Video Stabilization, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 29: 3582 – 3595, 2020.

[8] Feng Tang, Qiang Ling*. Contour-Aware Long-term Tracking with Reliable Re-detection, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 30(12), 4739-4754, 2020.

[9] Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Qiang Ling*, M.Yaqoob Javed. “Novel Grass Hopper optimization based MPPT of PV systems for complex partial shading conditions”. Solar Energy, vol. 198: 499-518, 2020.

[10] Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Qiang Ling*. “Harris Hawk Optimization-based MPPT Control for PV Systems under Partial Shading Conditions”. Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 274: 122857, 2020.

[11] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Majad Mansoor, Qiang Ling*, Baoqun Yin, M.Yaqoob Javed. “A Salp-Swarm Optimization based MPPT technique for harvesting maximum energy from PV systems under partial shading conditions”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 209: 112625, 2020.

[12] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Majad Mansoor, Qiang Ling*. “A Novel MPPT Technique based on Henry Gas Solubility Optimization”. Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 225: 113409, 2020.

2019

[1] Qiang Ling. “Periodic Event-Triggered Quantization Policy Design for a Scalar LTI System with i.i.d. Feedback Dropouts”. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 64(1): 343–350, 2019.

[2] Qiang Ling*, Rui Chen and Rundong Dou, “Bit rate conditions to stabilize an uncertain scalar continuous-time linear system with clock offset”, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 29(12), 4209-4227, 2019.

[3] Jiayu Chen, Qiang Ling*. “A robust quantized consensus protocol for discrete-time multi-agent systems with additive noise”. ISA Transactions, vol. 86: 29-38, 2019.

[4] Jiayu Chen, Qiang Ling*. “Robust quantized consensus of discrete multi-Agent

systems under input Saturation”. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 356(5): 2934-2959, 2019.

[5] Rundong Dou, Jiayu Chen, Qiang Ling*. “Sufficient Bit Rate Conditions to Stabilize an Uncertain Scalar Nonlinear System Based on Event Triggering”. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 356(12): 6106-6144, 2019.

[6] Qiang Ling*, Minda Zhao. “Stabilization of Traffic Videos based on both Foreground and Background Feature Trajectories”. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 29(8), 2215 – 2228, 2019.

[7] Chunlin Chen, Qiang Ling*. Adaptive Convolution for Object Detection, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 21(12), 3205 – 3217, 2019.

[8] Minda Zhao, Qiang Ling*, Feng Li. “An Iterative Feedback-Based Change Detection Algorithm for Flood Mapping in SAR Images”. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 16(2), 231 - 235, 2019.

[9] Feng Tang, Qiang Ling*. Spatial-aware correlation filters with adaptive weight maps for visual tracking, Neurocomputing, vol. 358, 369-384, 2019. 

[10] Adeel Feroz Mirza, Qiang Ling*, M.Yaqoob Javed, Majad Mansoor. “Novel MPPT Techniques for Photovoltaic Systems under Uniform Irradiance and Partial Shading”. Solar Energy, vol. 184: 628-648, 2019.

2018

[1] Qiang Ling. “Bit-Rate Conditions to Stabilize a Continuous-Time Linear System with Feedback Dropouts”. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 63(7), 2176-2183, 2018.

[2] Qiang Ling, Sibin Deng, Feng Li, Qinghua Huang and Xuelong Li. “A Feedback-Based Robust Video Stabilization Method for Traffic Videos”. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 28(3), 561 – 572, 2018.

[3] Kaikai Song, Ting Yao, Qiang Ling*, Tao Mei.. “Boosting image sentiment analysis with visual attention”. Neurocomputing, 312, 218-228, 2018.

2017

[1] Qiang Ling. “Bit Rate Conditions to Stabilize a Continuous-Time Scalar Linear System Based on Event Triggering”. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 62(8), 4093 – 4100, 2017.

[2] Qiang Ling*, Zhe Yan, Haibo Ji, Yong Wang and Yongchun Xie, “Sufficient Conditions to Stabilize Time-varying Nonlinear Sampled-data Systems via Approximation”, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 27(1), 108-120, 2017.

[3] Qiang Ling*, Wei Zheng and Hai Lin. “An Iterative Method for Control Gain Design of Multi-Agent Systems with Process Noise”. IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 25(5), 1905 – 1911, 2017.

 

US Patents:

(1). Qiang Ling, M. Fatih ErdenAlexei H. Sacks and Sundeep Chauhan, Null servo pattern for bit-pattened media, 7706092, US.

(2). Darren W. Karns, Mark D. Bedillion, Qiang Ling and M. Fatih Erden“Servo sector format with large lithographic tolerances, 7576942, US.

(3). Qiang Ling and M. Fatih Erden, “Compensating the effects of non-synchronous writing of erasable servo marks, 8023392, US.

(4). Qiang Ling and M. Fatih Erden“Low complexity servo demodulation algorithm for probe storage, 20090086360, US.