Mr Sung Han CHA

 

 

Address:

RSISE Building 115

The Australian National University

Canberra ACT 0200

AUSTRALIA

 

Telephone:

+61 2 6125 8676

 

Fax:

+61 2 6125 8645

 

Email:

Sung.Cha@anu.edu.au

 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

Jan 2007 – Current

Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering

Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering

College of Engineering and Computer Science

The Australian National University, Australia

 

Supervisors:  Distinguished Professor Brian D O Anderson

                 Dr Arvin Dehghani

                 Dr Weitian Chen

 

Mar 2002 - Nov 2006

Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours

The Australian National University, Australia 

 

-          3 Majors in Mechatronics, Telecommunication and Electronics systems

-          Thesis Title: Coupled Non-linear State Estimation and Control for Low-cost Aerial Robotic Vehicles (Supervisor: Dr Robert Mahony)

-          Thesis(PDF); Seminar(PDF); Abstract(PDF)

 

Mar 2002 - Nov 2005

Bachelor of Information Technology

The Australian National University, Australia

 

-          Major in Software Development

 

Jan 2000 - Dec 2001

Year 12 Certificate - UAI of 99.90 (Top 0.1% in Australia)

Narrabundah College in ACT, Australia

 

 

 

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS

 

2009

The Vice-Chancellor¡¯s Higher Degree Research (HDR) Travel Grant

The Office of the Vice-Chancellor (OVC), the Australian National University

(travel grant of AUD3,500)

 

2009

The Cross-Institutional Visit Fund (as a Research Associate)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong

(stipend of HKD10,000)

 

2007 – 2010

The Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)

The Department of Education, Science and Training, the Australian Government

(stipend of AUD20,427 per annum for 2009)

 

2007 – 2010

 

The Australian National University PhD Supplementary Scholarship (ASS)

The College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), the Australian National University

(top-up stipend of AUD4,000 per annum with an increment of AUD2,000 yearly)

 

2006

The NCACI Undergraduate Thesis Prize

The National Committee on Automation Control and Instrumentation (NCACI), the Engineers Australia

(with a cash prize of AUD2,000)

 

2006

The Dean¡¯s Prize ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science

The College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), the Australian National University

(with a cash prize of AUD350)

 

2006

The Australian National University Honours Scholarship

The Australian National University

(stipend of AUD5,000)

 

2004 / 2005

The CSIRO ICT Centre Vacation Scholarship

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Centre,

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

(with the paid internship – worth ~AUD10,000 over 10 weeks)

 

2004 – 2006

The Research & Development (R&D) Scholarship

The Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT), the Australian National University

 

2003 – 2005

A Chancellor¡¯s Letter of Commendation

The Chancellor, the Australian National University

 

2003

The Burton and Garran Hall Distinguished Scholar

The Burton and Garran Hall, the Australian National University

(with a Co-op book voucher worth AUD50)

 

2002 – 2006

The Australian National University International Undergraduate Scholarship

The Australian National University

(covers the whole tuition fees for undergraduate degree(s) – worth over $86,000)

 

1999

The Interact Award for Outstanding Achievement in the High School Years

The Minister for Education in ACT, Australia

(with an Internet voucher worth AUD200)

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Refereed Journal Papers;

 

[1] Sung H. Cha, Arvin Dehghani, and Brian D. O. Anderson. Validating nonlinear stabilizing controllers via closed-loop noisy data. Automatica, 2009 (Submitted).

 

 

 

Conference Papers;

 

[2] Robert Mahony, Sung-Han Cha, and Tarek Hamel. A coupled estimation and control analysis for attitude stabilisation of mini aerial vehicles. In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2006), Auckland, New Zealand, December 6-8, 2006  - Paper (PDF), Presentation Slides (Presented by Robert Mahony) (PDF)

 

[3] Sung H. Cha, Michael Rotkowitz and Brian D. O. Anderson. Gain Scheduling using Time-varying Kalman Filter for a class of LPV Systems. In Proceedings of the 17th International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC¡¯08), Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008.

 

[4] Sung H. Cha, Arvin Dehghani, and Brian D. O. Anderson. Implementing nonlinear controllers using observer-form via kernel representations. In Proceedings of the 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED¡¯09), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 24-26, 2009.

 

[5] Sung H. Cha, Arvin Dehghani, and Brian D. O. Anderson. Nonlinear analysis for verifying closed-loop stability before inserting a new controller. In Proceedings of the 2009 European Control Conference (ECC¡¯09), Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009.

 

[6] Sung H. Cha, Arvin Dehghani, and Brian D. O. Anderson. Safe nonlinear controller switching with biomedical engineering applications. In Proceedings of the 7th Asian Control Conference (ASCC2009), Hong Kong, August 27-29, 2009.

 

[7] Sung H. Cha, Arvin Dehghani, and Brian D. O. Anderson. Verifying nonlinear controllers for stability utilizing closed-loop noisy. In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC¡¯09) and 28th Chinese Control Conference (CCC¡¯09), Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009.

 

 

 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

 

Robust Control; Nonlinear Control, Adaptive Control; Gain scheduling; Multiple Model Adaptive Control; Multi-Controller Adaptive Switching;

Iterative Identification and Control.

 

 

 

 

EMPLOYMENTS

 

Academic Employment;

 

Aug 2009 - Oct 2009

Research Associate (via the Cross-Institutional visit)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong

 

Feb 2005 - Current

University Casual/Sessional Academic Staff - Course Tutor / Lab Demonstrator

The Faculty of Engineering and IT, the Australian National University

 

-         COMP2300 Introduction to Computer Systems (1st semester 2005)

-         ENGN2221 System Dynamics (2nd semester 2005 - 2006)

-         ENGN1221 Electromechanical Technologies (2nd semester 2007 - 2008)

-         ENGN2211 Electronic Circuits (1st semester 2007 - 2009)

-         ENGN3213 Digital Systems and Microprocessors (2nd sem. 2007 & 1st sem. 2008)

-         ENGN3223 Control Systems (1st semester 2007 & 2nd semester 2008 - 2009)

-         ENGN1218 Introduction to Electronics (2nd semester 2009)

 

 

Work Experiences;

 

Jan 2006 - Feb 2006

Engineering Laboratory Technician (Full-time basis)

FEIT, the Australian National University / Dr Robert MAHONY

 

Nov 2005 - Jan 2006

Vacation Worker: Software Developer/Designer (Full-time basis)

Pesce Pty Ltd (www.pesce.com.au) / Mr Michael McKAY

 

Dec 2004 - Feb 2005

Vacation Scholar: Individual Project Researcher (Full-time basis)

The CSIRO ICT Centre / Mr Robert POWER

 

 

 

 

Last Updated:  Wednesday, 5 August 2009