Department of Mechanical Engineering

Qingze Zou

Assistant Professor 

2022 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9354
e-mail: qzzou@iastate.edu

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Education
B.S. (1994) in Automatic Control, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China - Chengdu, China

M.S. (1997) in Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University - Beijing, China

Ph.D. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington - Seattle, WA

Areas of Interest
Precision positioning control
Inversion-based output tracking theory
Scanning probe microscope
Nanoscale characterization of rate-dependent material properties
High-throughput Nanofabrication

Recent Publications

  1. Q. Zou and S. Devasia, “Precision preview-based stable-inversion for nonlinear nonminimum-phasesystems: TheVTOL example”, Automatica, Vol. 43, pp. 117-127, 2007.
  2. Y. Wu and Q. Zou, “Iterative Control Approach to Compensate for the Hysteresis and the Vibrational Dynamics Effects of Piezo Actuators”, special issue on Micro/Nano Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. (15), pp. 936-944, 2007.
  3. Kyong-Soo, Kim and Qingze Zou, “Iterative-based Scan-Trajectory Design and Control with Output-Oscillation Mimimization: Atomic Force Microscope Example”, ASME Journal of Dynamics Systems, Measurement and Control (revision submitted).
  4. Ying Wu and Qingze Zou, “Inversion-Based Robust 2DOF-Control Design for Output Tracking: Piezoelectric Actuator Example”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (under review).
  5. Qingze Zou, “Optimal Preview-Based Stable-Inversion for Output Tracking of Nonminimum-Phase Linear Systems”, Automatica (revision submitted).