[J32]. Z. Liu, X. Gong*, N. Li, H. Gao, Y. Lin, T. Qu, Y. F. Hu, H. Chen, "Adversarial Driving Behavior Generation via Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning Incorporating Human Risk Cognition", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2025

[J31]. J. Liu, Y. Li, N. Wang, Y. Sun, T. Wang, Y. Hu, H. Chen, X. Gong*, "Cloud-assisted high-Sulfur fuel monitoring for connected heavy-duty vehicles based on transformer neural network", Energy, 2025. 

[J30].  C. Zhang, X. Gong, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “A Discrete Sliding-Mode Reaching-Law Zeroing Neural Solution for Dynamic Constrained Quadratic Programming,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2025. 

[J29].  T. Wang, Y. Hu, Q. Fang, B. He, X. Gong*, and P. Wang*, “DK-Former: A Hybrid Structure of Deep Kernel Gaussian Process Transformer Network for Enhanced Traffic Sign Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 18561–18572, 2024. 

[J28].  C. Zhang, Y. Hu*, L. Xiao, X. Gong*, and H. Chen, “Data-Driven Robust Iterative Learning Predictive Control for MIMO Nonaffine Nonlinear Systems with Actuator Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 9850–9860, 2024. 

[J27].   J. Wang, X. Gong*, P. Wang, Y. Wang, R. Wang, L. Guo, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “A Stochastic Predictive Adaptive Cruise Control System with Uncertainty-Aware Velocity Prediction and Parameter Self-Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 13900–13913, 2024. 

[J26].   Y. Hu, C. Zhang, B. Wang, J. Zhao, X. Gong*, J. Gao, and H. Chen, “Noise-Tolerant ZNN-Based Data-Driven Iterative Learning Control for Discrete Nonaffine Nonlinear MIMO Repetitive Systems,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 344–361, 2024. 

[J25].  C. Zhang, Y. Hu*, T. Wang, X. Gong*, and H. Chen, “Data-Driven Iterative Learning Consensus Tracking Based on Robust Neural Models for Unknown Heterogeneous Nonlinear Multiagent Systems with Input Constraints,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2024. 

[J24]. H. Yang, Y. Hu, X. Gong*, R. Cao, L. Guo*, and H. Chen, “Energy Management Strategy for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles Considering The Inaccuracy of Predicted Vehicle Speed,” IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 8246–8262, 2024. 

[J23].  X. Gong, J. Wang, Y. Hu, M. Sun, R. Wang, Y. Yan, L. Guo, and H. Chen, “A Benchmark Study for Real-Time Optimal Control of Connected HEVs: Design, Integration, and Evaluation,” IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 7591–7603, 2023. 

[J22].  Z. Liu, H. Gao, Y. Lin, and X. Gong*, “Enhancing Planning for Autonomous Driving via An Iterative Optimization Framework Incorporating Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation,” Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 19, p. 3721, 2024. 

[J21].   J. Liu, X. Gong*, T. Wang, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “A Proxy-Data-Based Hierarchical Adversarial Patch Generation Method,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 246, p. 104066, 2024.

[J20].   Y. Hu, C. Zhang, X. Gong*, J. Gao, L. Zhang, and H. Chen, “Design of A Nonlinear Dynamic Output Feedback Controller Based on A Fixed-Time RBF Disturbance Observer for A PEMFC Air Supply System,” Measurement, vol. 211, p. 112683, 2023. 

[J19].    J. Zhao, G. Chang, Y. Sun, Y. Hu, H. Chen, J. Yu, H. Chen, and X. Gong*, “Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Optimizing the Ammonia Coverage Ratio of An SCR System Based on TC-QPSO,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 132, p. 105409, 2023. 

[J18].   P. Liu, T. Qu*, H. Gao, and X. Gong, “Driving Intention Recognition of Surrounding Vehicles Based on A Time-Sequenced Weights Hidden Markov Model for Autonomous Driving,” Sensors, vol. 23, no. 21, p. 8761, 2023. 

[J17].   Z. Li, H. Chen, H. Liu, P. Wang*, and X. Gong*, “Integrated Longitudinal and Lateral Vehicle Stability Control for Extreme Conditions with Safety Dynamic Requirements Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 19285–19298, 2022. 

[J16].   C. Zhang, Y. Hu*, X. Gong, Y. Huang, and H. Chen, “Design and Experimental Verification of Model-Free Adaptive Sliding Controller for Air Supply System of PEMFCs,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 128, p. 105336, 2022.

[J15].  X. Gong, J. Wang, B. Ma, L. Lu, Y. Hu*, and H. Chen, “Real-Time Integrated Power and Thermal Management of Connected HEVs Based on Hierarchical Model Predictive Control,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1271–1282, 2021. 

[J14].    J. Zhao, Y. Hu, F. Xie, X. Li, Y. Sun, H. Sun, and X. Gong*, “Modeling and Integrated Optimization of Power Split and Exhaust Thermal Management on Diesel Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” Energies, vol. 14, no. 22, p. 7505, 2021. 

[J13].    Y. Hu, Y. Wang, J. Gao, X. Gong, Z. Tang, and J. Zhao, “Design of Nonlinear Hierarchical Controller for Intake Manifold Pressure and Boost Pressure of Turbocharged Gasoline Engine,” International Journal of Vehicle Design, vol. 82, no. 1-4, pp. 161–186, 2020. 

[J12].    L. Lu, Y. Hu*, X. Gong, and H. Chen, “Real-Time Model Predictive Control for Thermal Management in An Automotive ICE with An Electrified Cooling System,” International Journal of Vehicle Design, vol. 82, no. 1-4, pp. 241–263, 2020.

[J11].   H. Chen, L. Guo, X. Gong*, B. Gao, L. Zhang. “Automotive Control in Intelligent Era”. Acta Automatica Sinica, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 1313–1332, 2020. 

[J10].  M. R. Amini*, H. Wang, X. Gong, D. Liao-McPherson, I. Kolmanovsky, and J. Sun, “Cabin and Battery Thermal Management of Connected and Automated HEVs for Improved Energy Efficiency Using Hierarchical Model Predictive Control,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1711–1726, 2019. 

[J09].  J. Zhao, X. Gong, Y. Hu, J. Gao, and H. Chen*, “An Ammonia Coverage Ratio Observing and Tracking Controller: Stability Analysis and Simulation Evaluation,” Science China Information Sciences, vol. 62, pp. 1–18, 2019. 

[J08].   Y. Hu, H. Chen, X. Gong*, S. Yu, J. Gao, and H. Chen, “Control-Oriented Modeling and Robust Nonlinear Triple-Step Controller Design for An Air-feed System for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells,” Asian Journal of Control, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1811–1823, 2019. 

[J07].  Z. Yang*, Y. Feng, X. Gong, D. Zhao, and J. Sun, “Eco-Trajectory Planning with Consideration of Queue Along Congested Corridor for Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” Transportation research record, vol. 2673, no. 9, pp. 277–286, 2019. 

[J06].  X. Gong, I. Kolmanovsky, E. Garone, K. Zaseck, and H. Chen*, “Constrained Control of Free Piston Engine Generator Based on Implicit Reference Governor,” Science China Information Sciences, vol. 61, pp. 1–17, 2018. 

[J05].   J. Zhao, Y. Hu, X. Gong, and H. Chen*, “Modelling and Control of Urea-SCR Systems Through the Triple-Step Non-Linear Method in Consideration of Time-Varying Parameters and Reference Dynamics,” Transactions of The Institute of Measurement and Control, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 287–302, 2018. 

[J04].  X. Gong, Y. F. Hu, R. B. Yang, H. Chen*. “Piston Motion Control of Free Piston Engine based on Iterative Reference Governor”. Control Theory & Application, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 188-196, 2017. 

[J03].  F. Xu, H. Chen*, X. Gong, and Q. Mei, “Fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control on FPGA Using Particle Swarm Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 310–321, 2015.

[J02].  H. Chen*, X. Gong, Q. Liu, and Y. Hu, “Triple-Step Method to Design Non-Linear Controller for Rail Pressure of Gasoline Direct Injection Engines,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 948–959, 2014.

[J01].  H. Chen*, X. Gong, Y. Hu, Q. Liu, B. Gao, and H. Guo, “Automotive Control: The State of The Art and Perspective,” Acta Automatica Sinica, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 322–346, 2013. 

[C21].  X. Xia, X. Ma, Y. Hu, T. Qu, H. Chen, X. Gong*, “From Failures to Fixes: LLM-Driven Scenario Repair for Self-Evolving Autonomous Driving,” ACM Multimedia, Ireland, 2025.

[C20].  J. Liu, Y. Liu, X. Gong*, T. Wang, H. Chen, and Y. Hu, “Harnessing and Evaluating the Intrinsic Extrapolation Ability of Large Language Models for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction,” in *Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of The North American Chapter of The Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Albuquerque, USA, 2025.

[C19].  N. Wang, X. Gong, Y. Hu, and Y. Sun, “Estimating NOx Sensor Ammonia Cross-Sensitivity Factor Using a Data-Driven Approach in SCR Systems,” in 2023 7th CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence (CVCI), pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2023.  (Best Paper Award)

[C18].  Z. Liu, H. Gao, H. Ma, S. Cai, Y. Hu, T. Qu, H. Chen, and X. Gong*, “Adversarial Driving Behavior Generation Incorporating Human Risk Cognition for Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation,” in 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1609–1614, Detroit, USA, 2023. 

[C17].  L. Gong, Z. Liu, Y. Hu, T. Qu, H. Chen, and X. Gong*, “Interactive Generation of Dynamically Feasible Vehicle Trajectories Using Dual-VAE,” IFAC-World Conference, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 2214–2219, Yokohoma, Jappan, 2023.

[C16].  N. Wang, Y. Sun, Y. Hu, J. Zhao, and X. Gong*, “Design of Diesel Oxidation Catalyst Temperature Control System Based on Fuzzy Adaptive PID,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2203, pp. 012041, Feb 2022.

[C15].  X. Gong*, J. Wang, B. Ma, M. Sun, Y. Wang, N. Deng, Y. Yan, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “Benchmark Study on Real-Time Energy Optimization of HEVs Under Connected Environment,” IFAC-ECOSM, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 356–362, 2021. (Gold Award Paper

[C14]. J. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. Yin, Y. Hu, H. Chen, and X. Gong, “Adversarial Attacks on Faster R-CNN: Design and Ablation Study,” in 2021 China Automation Congress (CAC), pp. 7395–7400, 2021.

[C13]. Y. Wang, X. Gong*, J. Lin, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “Predictive Cruise Control of Connected Vehicle with Online Parameters Learning,” in 2021 5th CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence (CVCI), pp. 1–5, IEEE, 2021.

[C12]. X. Gong, H. Wang, M. R. Amini, I. Kolmanovsky, J. Sun. “Modeling and Integrated Power and Thermal Management of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle,”IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, HongKong, 2019.

[C11].  M. R. Amini, X. Gong, Y. Feng, H. Wang, I. Kolmanovsky, and J. Sun, “Sequential Optimization of Speed, Thermal Load, and Power Split in Connected HEVs,” in 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4614–4620, 2019.

[C10]. K. Liu, Z. Asher, X. Gong, M. Huang, and I. Kolmanovsky, “Vehicle Velocity Prediction and Energy Management Strategy Part 1: Deterministic and Stochastic Vehicle Velocity Prediction Using Machine Learning,” SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-1051, 2019.

[C09]. X. Gong, Y. Guo, Y. Feng, J. Sun, and D. Zhao, “Evaluation of The Energy Efficiency in A Mixed Traffic with Automated Vehicles and Human Controlled Vehicles,” in 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 1981–1986, IEEE, 2018.

[C08]. X. Gong, K. Zaseck, I. Kolmanovsky, and H. Chen, “Modeling and Predictive Control of Free Piston Engine Generator,” in 2015 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4735–4740, IEEE, 2015.

[C07]. X. Gong, K. Zaseck, I. Kolmanovsky, and H. Chen, “Dual-Loop Control of Free Piston Engine Generator,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, no. 15, pp. 174–180, 2015.

[C06].  Q. Liu, X. Gong, H. Chen, B. Xin, “Nonlinear GDI Rail Pressure Control: Design, Analysis and Experimental Implementation,” in 2015 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 8132–8139, IEEE, 2015.

[C05]. X. Gong, H. Chen, Q. Liu, and Y. Hu, “A New Procedure to Design Nonlinear Controller for Rail Pressure Control of GDI Engines,” in 2014 American control conference, pp. 3153–3158, IEEE, 2014.

[C04]. X. Gong, H. Chen, Y. Fan, and Y. Hu, “Idle Speed Control for SI Engine Using Triple-Step Nonlinear Method,” in Proceeding of the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, pp. 2005–2010, IEEE, 2014.

[C03]. Q. Liu, X. Gong, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “Active Disturbance Rejection Control of Common Rail Pressure for Gasoline Direct Injection Engine,” in 2013 American control conference, pp. 2202–2207, IEEE, 2013.

[C02].  X. Gong, Q. Liu, Y. Hu, and H. Chen, “Idle Speed Controller Design for SI Engine Based on ADRC,” in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 376–381, IEEE, 2012.

[C01]. X. Gong, Y. Hu, P. Sun, and H. Chen, “A Nonlinear Feedforward-Feedback Controller Design for Electronic Throttle Based on Flatness,” in 2012 24th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), pp. 1542–1547, IEEE, 2012.