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Xiangru Xu

Xiangru Xu

Assistant Professor

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.

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)