Zongxuan Sun
Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor Email: zsun@umn.edu Telephone: 612-625-2107
Ph.D., 2000, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., 1998, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., 1995, Automatic Control, Southeast University, China
Research
Research interests are in synthesis, design, and control of electro-hydraulic, electromechanical, and electro-magnetic systems, fluid power, automotive powertrain, tracking control and disturbance rejection, nonlinear and time-varying control, and mechatronics. Recent research work includes developing key enabling technologies for clean and efficient automotive powertrain, such as camless engine, modeling and analysis of transmission hydraulic system, and various advanced hybrid concepts, novel control methodologies for rotational-angle based systems.