Selected Publication

Journal Papers

- First Author Paper

[J.7] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi. “Communication-saving design by stochastic event triggers”. Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 356, no. 17, pp. 10532-10546, 2019.

[J.6] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi. “DoS attack in centralised sensor network against state estimation”. IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1244-1253, 2018. (regular Paper)

[J.5] Chao Yang, Jianying Zheng, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi. “Multi-Sensor Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Measurements”. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 797-804, 2018.

[J.4] Chao Yang, Jingyi Lu, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi. “Sensor Scheduling for Lifetime Maximization in Centralized State Estimation”. Neurocomputing, vol. 270, pp. 43-53, 2017. (regular Paper)

[J.3] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi. “Deterministic Sensor Scheduling for Centralized State Estimation Under Limited Communication Resource”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 2336-2348, 2015. (regular paper)

[J.2] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi, “Schedule Communication for Decentralized State Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 2525-2535, 2013. (regular paper)

[J.1] Chao Yang and Ling Shi, “Deterministic Sensor Data Scheduling under Limited Communication Resource”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 5050-5056, 2011.

- Corresponding Author Paper: Group Students

[J.8] Mengqi Lu, Yuqing Ni, Wen Yang, and Chao Yang*, “HMM Noise Injection for Privacy Protection in a Cooperative User-Server LQG Control System”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, early access, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2026.3709201, 2026.

[J.7] Wenhao Lin, Xiaoping Yu, Wen Yang*, and Chao Yang*, “Privacy preservation by strategic transmission in the user-server LQG control systems”, ISA Transactions, vol. 175, pp. 343-352, 2026.

[J.6] Wenhao Lin, Wen Yang*, and Chao Yang*, “Privacy preservation based on reinforcement learning in cooperative LQG control systems”, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 216, 106516, 2026.

[J.5] Xia Zhou, Wenhao Lin, and Chao Yang*, “Stochastic event trigger design for LQG control and privacy preservation”, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 213, 106440, 2026.

[J.4] Jie Lu, Wenhao Lin, and Chao Yang*, “Sequential Information Fusion for Resilient Estimation: Dynamic Observation Scheduling against Intermittent DoS Attacks”, Chinese Journal of Information Fusion, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 46-61, 2026.

[J.3] Wenliang Sheng, Hongxu Zhao, Lingpeng Chen, Guangyang Zeng*, Yunling Shao, Yuze Hong, Chao Yang*, Ziyang Hong, and Junfeng Wu. “BESTAnP: Bi-Step Efficient and Statistically Optimal Estimator for Acoustic-n-Point Problem”. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 5313-5320, 2025.

(Also presented at 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, Oct 2025.)

[J.2] Wenhao Lin, Yuqing Ni, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, and Chao Yang*. “Privacy Preservation by Public Design in Cloud-Based Cooperative LQG Control Systems”. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC), https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.7778, 2025.

[J.1] Xiaoping Yu and Chao Yang*. “Privacy Preservation in Cooperative Remote State Estimation”. Control Engineering of China, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 996-1003, 2022. (Chinese)

- Corresponding Author Paper: Other Collaborations

[J.2] Ni, Yuqing, Xiaochen Liu, and Chao Yang*. “Sensor scheduling for remote state estimation with limited communication resources: a time-and event-triggered hybrid approach”. Sensors, vol. 23, no. 21, 8667, 2023.

[J.1] Wen Yang, Chao Yang*, Hongbo Shi, Ling Shi, and Guanrong Chen. “Stochastic link activation for distributed filtering under Sensor Power Constraint”. Automatica, vol. 75, pp. 109-118, 2017.

Conference Papers

- First Author Paper

[C.10] Chao Yang and Wen Yang, “Time- and Event-based Hybrid Sensor Scheduling for Remote State Estimation with Limited Communication Resources”, the 57th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE), Nara, Japan, Sep 2018. (position paper)

[C.9] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi, “Communication-Saving Design by Stochastic Event Triggers”, the 23th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Hong Kong, Jul 2018.

[C.8] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Ling Shi, “Majorization Theory in Sensor Scheduling”, the 23th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Hong Kong, Jul 2018.

[C.7] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, Jianying Zheng, and Hongbo Shi. “Stochastic Sensor Scheduling for Centralized State Estimation”, the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2017.

[C.6] Chao Yang, Wen Yang, and Hongbo Shi. “Majorization Theory in Sensor Scheduling”, the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Osaka, Japan, Dec 2015.

[C.5] Chao Yang, Xiaoqiang Ren, Wen Yang, Hongbo Shi, and Ling Shi. “Jamming Attack in Centralized State Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Hangzhou, China, July 2015.

[C.4] Chao Yang, Xiaoqiang Ren, Jianying Zheng, and Ling Shi. “Sensor Scheduling for Communication Resource Minimization in Centralized State Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Hailar, China, July 2014. (best paper finalist)

[C.3] Chao Yang, Wann-Jiun Ma, and Ling Shi, “A Study of Estimation and Communication Tradeoff using an Event-based Approach”, in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov 2013.

[C.2] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi, “Communication Scheduling for Decentralized State Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Guangzhou, China, Dec 2012.

[C.1] Chao Yang, Junfeng Wu, Wei Zhang, and Ling Shi, “Communication Topology Design under Limited Bandwidth”, the 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Melbourne, Australia, Jul 2012.

- Corresponding Author Paper: Group Students

[C.10] Jinhua Lu, Yanfang Mo, and Chao Yang*, “Undetectable Privacy Preservation in Cooperative LQG Control Systems”, the 15th Asian Control Conference (AsCC), Bali, Indonesia, Jun 2026. (invited session)

[C.9] Jie Lu, Yanfang Mo, and Chao Yang*, “Resilient Observation Scheduling against Smart Intermittent DoS Attacks: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Game”, the 15th Asian Control Conference (AsCC), Bali, Indonesia, Jun 2026.

[C.8] Jie Lu, Wenhao Lin, and Chao Yang*, “Sequential Information Fusion for Resilient Estimation: Dynamic Observation Scheduling against Intermittent DoS Attacks”, the 12th Chinese Conference of Information Fusion. Harbin, China, Aug 2025.

[C.7] Yingying Qin, Chang Liu, Binghan He, Shijie Zhang, Yanfang Mo, Jingyi Lu, and Chao Yang*, “Optimizing the Scheduling of Localization Sensors for an Intelligent Robot by Reinforcement Learning”, the 44th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Chongqing, China, Jul 2025.

[C.6] Xia Zhou, Wenhao Lin, and Chao Yang*, “Privacy Preservation against Enhanced Estimation by Kalman Smoother in Cloud-Based LQG Control Systems”, the 14th Asian Control Conference (AsCC), Dalian, China, Jul 2024.

[C.5] Wenhao Lin, Yuqing Ni, Wen Yang, and Chao Yang*, “Privacy Preservation by Intermittent Transmission in Cooperative LQG Control Systems”, the 14th Asian Control Conference (AsCC), Dalian, China, Jul 2024.

[C.4] Menqi Lu, Wen Yang, and Chao Yang*, “Localized Privacy Protection in a Cooperative LQG Control System with Multiple Sensors”, the 14th Asian Control Conference (AsCC), Dalian, China, Jul 2024.

[C.3] Wenliang Sheng, Zhiyun Zhao, Wen Yang, and Chao Yang*, “Localized Privacy Preservation by Innovation Perturbation in a Cooperative LQG Control System”, the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Dec 2023.

[C.2] Xinqi Yan and Chao Yang*, “State Estimation with Differential Privacy under Scale Enlargement of the Sensor Network”, the 13th Asian Control Conference (AsCC), Jeju Island, Korea, May 2022.

[C.1] Xiaoping Yu and Chao Yang*, “Privacy Preservation in Cooperative Remote State Estimation”, the 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Systems (ISAS), Hangzhou, China, Apr 2022. (long abstract)