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Xiangru Xu

Xiangru Xu

Assistant Professor
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Dr. Xiangru Xu directs the UW Autonomous & Resilient Controls Laboratory (ARC Lab) which aims to develop principled analysis and control methodologies for building trustworthy autonomous intelligent systems.

Department

Mechanical Engineering

Contact

2035 ME, Mechanical Engineering Bldg
1513 University Ave
Madison, WI

Featured news

With NSF CAREER Award, Xiangru Xu aims to improve safety of autonomous systems

May 24, 2023

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December 4, 2019
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Professor Xiangru Xu, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • PhD 2014, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • BS 2009, Dept. of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University

  • Control theory
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Artificial Intelligence

Affiliated Departments

  • 2023 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
  • 2022 Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship
  • 2019 IEEE Trans. on Autom. Sci. and Eng, Best New Application Paper Award
  • 2014 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Outstanding Graduate
  • 2013 The Ministry of Education of China, National Doctoral Scholarship

  • Zhang, Y., & Xu, X. (2025). Efficient Reachability Analysis for Convolutional Neural Networks Using Hybrid Zonotopes. In American Control Conference (p. 1321-1326). IEEE.
  • Zhang, H., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Zhou, Z., Negrut, D., & Xu, X. (2025). Shared Control of Teleoperated Vehicles with Delay-Compensated Safety Filtering. In IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications. IEEE.
  • Wang, S., Lin, K., Xu, X., & Wehner, M. (2025). A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception. Soft Robotics.
  • Wang, Y., & Xu, X. (2025). Proxy Control Barrier Functions: Integrating Barrier-Based and Lyapunov-Based Safety-Critical Control Design. Automatica, 177, 112289.
  • Zhang, Y., & Xu, X. (2025). Robust Stability of Neural Feedback Systems with Interval Matrix Uncertainties. Automatica, 177, 112289 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112289
  • Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., & Xu, X. (2024). Hybrid Zonotope-Based Backward Reachability Analysis for Neural Feedback Systems With Nonlinear Plant Models. In American Control Conference (p. 4140-4146). IEEE.
  • Ashokkumar, S., Jayendra, A., Tobin, S., Leykin, A., Stegeman, R., Dashora, A., Look, B., Koenig, J., Hu, B., Crooks, M., Mahajan, I., Boopathy, P., Krishnakumar, M., Batagoda, N., Wang, H., Young, A., Freire, V., Bower, G., Xu, X., & Negrut, D. (2024). Rapid Development of an Autonomous Vehicle for the SAE AutoDrive Challenge II Competition. In WCX SAE World Congress Experience. SAE https://doi.org/10.4271/2024-01-1980
  • Wang, Y., & Xu, X. (2024). Adaptive Safety-Critical Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Parametric Uncertainties: A Control Barrier Function Approach. Systems & Control Letters, 188, 105798 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2024.105798
  • Wang, Y., & Xu, X. (2024). Immersion and Invariance-based Disturbance Observer and Its Application to Safe Control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 69(12), 8782-8789 https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2024.3416323
  • Lyu, Z., Xu, X., & Hong, Y. (2024). Small-Gain Theorem for Safety Verification under High-Relative-Degree Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 69(6), 3717--3731 https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2023.3317315

  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2025)
  • M E 351 - Interdisciplinary Experiential Design Projects I (Spring 2025)
  • M E 489 - Honors in Research (Spring 2025)
  • M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M E 990 - Dissertator Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2024)
  • M E 340 - Dynamic Systems (Fall 2024)
  • M E 352 - Interdisciplinary Experiential Design Projects II (Fall 2024)
  • M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • M E 351 - Interdisciplinary Experiential Design Projects I (Spring 2024)
  • M E 601 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (Spring 2024)
  • M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • M E 340 - Dynamic Systems (Fall 2023)
  • M E 352 - Interdisciplinary Experiential Design Projects II (Fall 2023)
  • M E 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Summer 2023)
  • M E 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)
  • M E 890 - PhD Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)