John Yao-Chon Chen

Professor

Professor Chen received his B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Ottawa and his M.A.sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Waterloo. He joined Toronto Metropolitan University in 1988. He is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) of Ontario.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Control of robotics manipulators, numerical solution of optimal control problems.

SELECTED PAPERS

• J.M. Naughton, Y.C. Chen and J. Jiang, "A Neural Network Application to Fault Diagnosis for Robotic Manipulators," Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 988-993, Dearborn, Michigan.
• Y.C. Chen, "Solving Robot Trajectory Planning Problems with Uniform Cubic B-Splines," Optimal Control Applications & Methods, Vol. 12(4), pp. 247-262, 1991.
• Y.C. Chen and M. Vidyasagar, "Optimal Control of Robotic Manipulators in the Presence of Obstacles," Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 7(5), pp. 721-740, 1990.
• Y.C. Chen, "On the Structure of the Time-Optimal Controls of Robotic Manipulators," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-34, No. 1, pp. 115-116, Jan. 1989.