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Book:

• Zhiyun Lin, Distributed Control and Analysis of Coupled Cell Systems, VDM Verlag, May 2008.

                                      
 

Papers submitted:

• Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Feedback control of planar biped robot with regulable step length and walking speed", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, November, 2009.
  
• Jing Guo, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Local control strategy for moving-target-enclosing under dynamically changing network topology", submitted to Systems & Control Letters, November, 2009.
• Wei Ding, Zhiyun Lin, and Peng Shi, "Collective motion from hierarchical pursuit", submitted to Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, October, 2009.
  
• Yizhou Miao, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Rigorous analysis for Reuleaux polygon formations using nearest and farthest neighbor rules", submitted to 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.
  
• Jing Guo, Zhiyun Lin, and Ming Cao, "Adaptive control schemes for mobile robot formations with triangularized structures", submitted to IET Control Theory & Applications, October, 2009.
  
• Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Stable walking for compass-like biped robot in complex environments", submitted to 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.
  
• Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Neighbor-referenced formation control using purely relative position information", submitted to 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.
  
• Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Collective motion of pursuit systems on directed acyclic graphs", submitted to 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.
  
• Jing Guo, Zhiyun Lin, and Ming Cao, "Adaptive leader-follower formation control for autonomous mobile robots", submitted to 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.
  
• Jian Hou, Zhiyun Lin, and Wenyuan Xu, "Cooperative control for optimal transmit beamforming via a probability-based local update rule", submitted to 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010.
  
• Jing Guo, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Cooperative control synthesis for moving-target-enclosing with changing topologies", submitted to 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010.
  
• Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Energy-efficient running control of a planar underactuated biped robot", submitted to 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010.
• Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Distributed control of cooperative target enclosing based on reachability and invariance analysis", submitted to Automatica, July, 2009.
• Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Synthesis of distributed control for coordinated path following based on hybrid approach", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, March, 2009.
• Zhiyun Lin and Mireille E. Broucke, "Triangulations, subdivisions, and covers for control of affine hypersurface systems on polytopes", submitted to SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, December, 2008.

Journal Papers:

• Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Collective motion and formations under pursuit strategies on directed acyclic graphs", Automatica, to appear, 2009.
• Ronghao Zheng, Zhiyun Lin, and Gangfeng Yan, "Ring-coupled unicycles: boundedness, convergence and control", Automatica, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp:  2699-2706, 2009.
• Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Reachability of affine systems on polytopes", Acta Automatica Sinica, Vol. 35, No. 12, pp: 1528-1533, 2009.
• Zhiyun Lin and Ganfeng Yan, "Nonlinear viewpoint of agreement problem in multi-agent systems", Systems Engineering -- Theory & Practice, Vol. 28, pp: 55-61, 2008. (in Chinese)
  
• Yufan Zheng, Linlin Su, and Zhiyun Lin, "Recent research and progress on consensus problem", Systems Engineering -- Theory & Practice, Vol. 28, pp. 27-34, 2008. (in Chinese)
  
• Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, "State agreement for continuous-time coupled nonlinear systems", SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp: 288-307, 2007.
• Peng Shi, Zhiyun Lin, and Yan Shi, "Robust output feedback control for discrete time-delay uncertain systems", Control and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 57-63, 2006.
• Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, "Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp: 121-127, 2005.
  
• Zhiyun Lin, Mireille Broucke, and Bruce Francis, "Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp: 622-629, 2004. 
• Zhiyun Lin and Peng Shi, "Robust guaranteed cost control for discrete-time systems with multiple delays in state", Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulse Systems, Series A: Mathematical Analysis, Vol.11, No.1, pp: 119-132, 2004.
• Zhiyun Lin, Xinping Guan, Yichang Liu, and Peng Shi, "Observer-based robust control for uncertain systems with time-varying delay", IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Vol.18, No.3, pp: 439-450, 2001.
• Xinping Guan, Zhiyun Lin, and Guangren Duan, "Robust guaranteed cost control for discrete-time uncertain systems with delay", IEE Proceedings:-Control Theory and Applications, Vol.146, No.6, pp: 598-602, 1999.

Book Chapters:

• Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, ''Getting mobile autonomous robots to rendezvous", Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 329, pp: 119-137, 2006.
• Joshua Marshall, Zhiyun Lin, Mireille Broucke, and Bruce Francis, "Pursuit strategies for autonomous agents", Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 309, pp: 137-151, 2004. 

Conference Papers:

• Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Necessary and sufficient conditions for reachability of discrete time affine systems on simplices", accepted, The 48^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'09), Shanghai, China, Dec. 16-18, 2009.
  
• Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "A hybrid control approach to multi-robot coordinated path following", accepted, The 48^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'09), Shanghai, China, Dec. 16-18, 2009.
• Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Ying Lan, "Synthesis of output feedback control for motion planning based on LTL specifications", accepted, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Louis, MO, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009.
• Dingwei, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Ying Lan, "Leader-following formation control based on pursuit strategies", accepted, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Louis, MO, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009.
• Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Self-deployment and coverage of mobile sensors within a bounded region", in Proceedings of the 21st Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), Guilin, China, June 17-19, 2009, pp: 3698-3703.
• Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin, and Meiqin Liu, "Characterization of backward reachable set and positive invariant set in polytopes", in Proceedings of 2009 American Control Conference (ACC2009), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, June 10-12, 2009, pp: 4351-4356.
  
• Ying Lan, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "A hybrid control approach to cooperative target tracking with multiple mobile robots", in Proceedings of 2009 American Control Conference (ACC2009), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, June 10-12, 2009, pp: 2624-2629.
• Wei Ding, Gangfeng Yan, and Zhiyun Lin, "Formations on two-layer pursuit systems", in Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp: 3496-3501.
  
• Zhiyun Lin and Mireille Broucke, "Reachability and control of affine hypersurface systems on polytopes", in Proceedings of 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 12-14, 2007, pp: 733-738.
  
• Zhiyun Lin and Mireille Broucke, "Resolving control to facet problems for affine hypersurface systems on simplices", in Proceedings of 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California USA, December 13-15, 2006, pp: 2625-2630. 
• Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, "Coupled dynamic systems: from structure towards state agreement", in Proceedings of 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005, pp: 3303-3308. 
• Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, "On the state agreement problem for multiple nonlinear dynamical systems", in Proceedings of 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-8, 2005. 
• Zhiyun Lin, Bruce Francis, and Manfredi Maggiore, "Feasibility for formation stabilization of multiple unicycles", in Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004, pp: 2448-2452. 
• Zhiyun Lin, Mireille Broucke, and Bruce Francis, "Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents", in Proceedings of 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, USA, December 9-12, 2003, pp: 1006-1011.
• Zhiyun Lin, Gangfeng Yan, Jialing Chen, and Xinping Guan, "Robust $H_{\infty}$ control for linear uncertain delay-difference systems", in Proceedings of the 3rd ASCC}, Shanghai, China , 2000, pp: 3059-3063.
• Xinping Guan, Zhiyun Lin, Yichang Liu, and Guangren Duan, "$H_{\infty}$ observer design for discrete delay systems", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, Chengdu, China, 2000, pp: 98-103.
• Xinping Guan, Zhiyun Lin,Yichang Liu, and Guangren Duan, "Function observer-based robust stabilization for delay systems with parameter perturbations", in Proceedings of the 14th IFAC World Congress, Beijing, China, 1999, pp: 213-218.

Thesis:

• Zhiyun Lin, "Coupled Dynamic Systems: From Structure Towards Stability and Stabilizability",  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2005 (Advisors: Bruce Francis and Manfredi Maggiore).