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Dr. Xin-Yan Deng

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
126 Spencer Lab.
Newark, DE 19716
E-mail: deng@udel.edu

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DEGREES

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2004
B.S. in Automation, Tianjin University (Tianjin, China), 1995

SERVICE

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, 9/2004 – present

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

Associate Director, Delaware Space Grant College Consortium, 12/2005 – present

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

X. Deng, L. Schenato, W. Wu and S. Sastry, "Flapping Flight for Robotic Insects. I. System Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, In press, 2006.

X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry, "Flapping Flight for Robotic Insects. II. Flight Control in Hover ", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, In press, 2006.

Conference Proceedings


P. Kodati and X. Deng, "Experimental Studies on the Caudal Fin Hydrodynamics of a Boxfish Robot", submitted to IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System, IROS'06, Beijing, China, October 2006.

P. Kodati and X. Deng, "Towards a Hydrodynamically Stable Body Shape Design of a Boxfish Robot", submitted to IROS Special Session on Biological Inspiration and Robotic Fish, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System, IROS'06, Beijing, China, October 2006.

X. Deng and S. Avadhanula, "Biomimetic Micro Underwater Vehicle with Oscillating Fin Propulsion: System Design and Force Measurement", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'05, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry, "Model Identification and Attitude Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect Including Thorax and Sensor Models", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'03, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003, 1152-1157. Best Student Paper Award Finalist.

X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry, "Model identification and attitude control scheme for a micromechanical flying insect", IEEE International Conference on Control, Automaton, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV'02, Singapore, December 2002, 1007-1012.

X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry, "Hovering Flight Control of a Micromechanical Flying Insect”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC'01, Orlando, Florida, December 2001, 235-240.

SOCIETIES

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)


HONORS & AWARDS

NSF CAREER Award, Faculty Early Career Development Program, National Science Foundation, 2006
Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003
Tianjin University North America Fund Scholarship, Tianjin University, 1995
Excellent Student Scholarship, Tianjin University, 1994

COURSES TAUGHT

MEEG 311 Vibration and Control
MEEG 624 Control of Dynamic Systems