📖 Educations

• 2024.08-Present, Ph.D. Dept. of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Macau.
• 2020.09-2023.06, M.E. Dept. of Unmanned System Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University.
• 2016.09-2020.06, B.E. Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University.

💻 Experience

• 2025.01-Present, Research Associate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Supervisor: Prof. James Lam).
• 2023.08-2024.07, Research Assistant, Dept. of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Macau, Macau. (Supervisor: Ass.Prof. Jason J. R. Liu).

🔅 Research Interests

• Networked System Control: Swarm intelligence, Swarm security control, Cyber-physical system (CPS), Multi-agent system (MAS).
• Robotic System Control: Robot sensing detection and control application, Teleoperation.

🔥 News

• 2024.06:  🎉 Our paper on collision-free cooperation control is accepted by IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.
• 2024.05:  🎉 Our paper on swarm security control through cloud-fog computing is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
• 2024.04:  🎉 Our patent about “UAV obstacle avoidance control based on light transmission model” is authorized by the China National Intellectual Property Administration.
• 2023.10:  🎉 I am invited to be a reviewer for International Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Franklin Open.
• 2023.09:  🎉 Our overview of swarm coordinated control is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.
• 2023.08:  🎉 I am honored to join Dr. Jason J. R. Liu’s team and look forward to do more valuable and innovative research in the future.

📝 Publications

Finished/Submitted

1. Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, James Lam, and Peng Shi, "Cyber-Security of Networked Control Systems: Recent Advances and Future Trends," 2025.
2. Jiacheng Li, Wenjun Luo, Jason J. R. Liu, Dengxiu Yu, Housheng Su, and James Lam, "Cloud-Based Security Control for Internet of UAV Swarm under Attacks: From Digital to Physical," 2025.
3. Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Dapeng Li, Yan-Jun Liu, and James Lam, "Event-/Self-Triggering Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control for Physical-/Twin-Vehicle Platoon Under Hybrid Attacks," 2024.
4. Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zhan Shu, and James Lam, "Network Progressive Recovery Control for Swarm with Intra-Group Differences: A Deep Q-Learning Strategy," 2024.
5. Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Dengxiu Yu, Yan-Jun Liu, and C. L. Philip Chen, "Broad-Learning-Based Adaptive Secure Control for UAV Swarms under Deception Attacks," 2024.
6. Jiacheng Li, Wenjun Luo, Chenjun Liu, Jason J. R. Liu, "Resilient Consensus for Networked Systems with Hidden Nodes and Edges: Detection, Isolation, and Control," 2024.
7. Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Chenjun Liu, Simone Baldi, "Secure Collaborative Control in Heterogeneous Swarms under DoS Attacks: Exploring Cooperative-Competitive Interactions," 2023.
8. Wenjie Zhou, Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Yan-Jun Liu, and James Lam, "Collision Avoidance for Close UAV Formation: A Water-Wave Potential Field Approach," 2024.
9. Peng Cheng, Wenjun Luo, Chenjun Liu, Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Dapeng Li, and Yan-Jun Liu, "Event-Based Prescribed Control of Rigid Spacecraft With Actuator Faults," 2024.
10. Peng Cheng, Wenjun Luo, Jiacheng Li, Chenjun Liu, Jason J. R. Liu, and Zhiguang Feng, "Fixed-Time Disturbance Observer-Based Prescribed Performance Control of Rigid Spacecraft," 2024.
11. Jason J. R. Liu, Jiacheng Li, Chenjun Liu, Peng Cheng, Ka-Wai Kwok, and James Lam, "Distributed Frame-Based Containment Control for Positive Networked Fractional-Order Systems: A Linear Programming Approach," 2023.

Journal Papers

1. Jiacheng Li, Wenhui Ma, Yangwang Fang, Dengxiu Yu, and C. L. Philip Chen, "Collision-Free Maneuvering for a UAV Swarm Based on Parallel Control," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 761–775, Apr. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/JAS.2024.124674 (Top, SCI, Q1)
2. Jiacheng Li, Dengxiu Yu, Wenhui Ma, Jason J. R. Liu, and Yan-Jun Liu, "Cooperative Control of Air–Ground Swarms Under DoS Attacks via Cloud–Fog Computing," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 4278-4292, Sept. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2024.3409900. (SCI, Q1)
3. Jiacheng Li, Jason J. R. Liu, Peng Cheng, Chenjun Liu, Yuchen Zhang, and Bo Chen, "Event-based Time-Varying UAV Formation Obstacle Avoidance Control under Cyber-Attacks," Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 361, no. 13, p. 107019, Sept. 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2024.107019. (SCI, JCR Q1)
4. Jiacheng Li, Junmin Liu, Shuaiqi Huangfu, Guoyan Cao, and Dengxiu Yu, "Leader-follower Formation of Light-weight UAVs with Novel Active Disturbance Rejection Control," Applied Mathematical Modelling, vol. 117, pp. 577-591, May 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2022.12.032. (Top, SCI, Q1)
5. Jiacheng Li, Yangwang Fang, Haoyu Cheng, Zhikai Wang, and Zihao Wu, "Large-scale Fixed-wing UAV Swarm System Control with Collision Avoidance and Formation Maneuver," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 744-755, March 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2022.3212068 (SCI, Q2)
6. Jiacheng Li, Yangwang Fang, Haoyu Cheng, Zhikai Wang, and Shuaiqi Huangfu, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation Obstacle Avoidance Control Based on Light Transmission Model and Improved Artificial Potential Field," Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 3229-3242, 2022. DOI: 10.1177/01423312221100340 (SCI, Q4)
7. Wei Lu, Jiacheng Li, Huanhuan Qin, Lei Shu, and Aiguo Song, "On Dual-Mode Driving Control Method for a Novel Unmanned Tractor With High Safety and Reliability," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 254-271, Jan. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JAS.2023.123072. (Top, SCI, Q1) (First author is tutor)
8. Dengxiu Yu, Jiacheng Li, Zhen Wang and Xuelong Li, "An Overview of Swarm Coordinated Control," IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 1918-1938, May 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2023.3314581. (First author is tutor)

Conference Papers

1. Jiacheng Li, Wenjun Luo, Jason J. R. Liu, and James Lam, "Twin-Based Cyber-Security Control for Swarm with Aggregation–Dispersion Ability," 37th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), 2025. (Accepted/In press)(EI)
2. Jiacheng Li, Yangwang Fang, Shuaiqi Huangfu, Mengjie Zeng, Guangyu Yang, and Tianbo Deng, "Affine Formation Obstacle Avoidance Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Prescribed Convergence Time ," International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control (ICGGNC), pp. 4467–4478, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6613-2_434. (EI)
3. Jiacheng Li, Wei Lu, Yankai Li, Mengjie Zeng, Ling Wang, Yongnian Zhang, "Tractor Steering Teleoperation Control with Fuzzy PID Algorithm based on Delay Time Measurement with Timestamp," Chinese Automation Congress (CAC), pp. 1553-1558, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/CAC51589.2020.9326587. (EI)

Cooperative Papers

1. Wenjie Zhou, Shuo Chen, Jiacheng Li, Chenjun Liu, Wenjun Luo, and Jason J. R. Liu, "Obstacle Avoidance Control for Cluster-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Formation with Multiple Constraints," Franklin Open, 2025. (Accepted/In press)
2. Zhikai Wang, Zhumu Fu, Zihao Wu, Chenqi Zhu, Jiacheng Li, "Three-Dimensional Cooperative Guidance Law Against Maneuvering Target with Time-Varying Communication Delays," International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 605-621, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s42405-023-00676-3. (SCI, Q4)
3. Mengjie Zeng, Shunming Li, Ranran Li, Jiacheng Li, Kun Xu, Xianglian Li, "A Transfer Learning Fault Diagnosis Method Considering Nearest Neighbor Feature Constraints," Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 34, p. 015114, 2023, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/ac8dae. (SCI, Q3)
4. 黄号, 马文卉, 李家诚, 方洋旺, "未知环境下无人机编队智能避障控制方法 ," 清华大学学报（自然科学版）, 2023. DOI: 10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2023.27.001. (EI)
5. 曾梦洁, 李舜酩, 李冉冉, 李家诚, 徐坤, "滚动轴承的堆叠稀疏判别自编码智能故障诊断方法," 轴承, 2022. DOI: 10.19533/j.issn1000-3762.2024.03.012.

Patents

1. 刘锦荣, 周文杰, 李家诚, James Lam, “一种基于水波势场的无人机紧密编队避障控制方法”, CN Patent (Submitted).
2. 方洋旺, 李家诚, 张茂桃, 王志凯, 马文卉, “一种基于仿鸟类趋光性的固定翼无人机避障控制策略”, CN 115202387 B (Authorized) (First inventor is tutor).
3. 卢伟, 李家诚, “一种基于多驾驶模式切换的无人车辆控制方法”, CN Patent：202010438526.3 (Published, under review) (First inventor is tutor).
4. 卢伟, 李家诚, 陈浩, “一种基于时间戳的车辆遥操作时延控制方法”, CN 11348243 (Published) (First inventor is tutor).

Highlight Works

IEEE TNSE 2024

Cooperative Control of Air–Ground Swarms Under DoS Attacks via Cloud–Fog Computing

Jiacheng Li, Dengxiu Yu, Wenhui Ma, Jason J. R. Liu, and Yan-Jun Liu

Main works：

• A distributed cloud-fog computing cooperative scheme for the heterogeneous swarm.
• Cross-domain security cooperative control method under DoS attack.
• Highlight the aggregation–dispersion properties of the swarm.

IEEE CAA/JAS 2022

On Dual-Mode Driving Control Method for a Novel Unmanned Tractor With High Safety and Reliability

Wei Lu, Jiacheng Li, Huanhuan Qin, Lei Shu, and Aiguo Song

Main works：

• Dual-mode control method with unmanned driving and teleoperation.
• Novel driving platform of autonomous tractor.

📄 Project Experience

• 2024.05-Present: Research on Intelligent Navigation and Control Technology for Hydrogen-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Shenzhen Science and Technology Program: Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Program (Category C), Main participant.
• 2024.05-Present: Analysis and Large-Scale Control of Interconnected Positive Systems: Applications in Multi-Agent Coordination, Macao Science and Technology Development Fund Research and Innovation Grant, Main participant.
• 2023.12-Present: Enhancement of Cyber-Physical Systems: Research on Safety Estimation and Control Strategies, Macao Science and Technology Development Fund Innovation and Technology Promotion Scheme, Main participant.
• 2024.01-Present: Development of a Co-Design Framework for Control and Communication in Networked Autonomous Systems, Multi-year Research Grant Collaborative Research of the University of Macau, Main participant.
• 2024.01-2024.08: Theory and Control Methods for Collaborative Navigation of Air-Ground Unmanned Swarms under Weak Information Conditions, National Natural Science Foundation (Key Project), Participant.
• 2023.01-2023.07: Coordinated Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) Swarm, The 705th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, Student in charge.
• 2021.12-2022,12: Research on the UAV Autonomous Capability Assessment System, Air Force Engineering University, Main participant.
• 2020.10-2021.12: Development of UAV Formation Collaborative Flight Control Simulation System, Xidian University, Main participant.
• 2020.10-2021.05: Research on System Resilience Assessment Technology, AVIC Chengdu Flight Design Institute (611), Main participant.
• 2018.05-2019.05: Design of Tractor Teleoperating System based on the Cloud Platform, Nanjing Agricultural University Student Scientific Research Training (SRT) Project, Student in charge.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2023.10 Excellent Master’s Thesis in Northwestern Polytechnical University (Only top 5%).
• 2020.06 Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing Agricultural University 2020 (Only top 10%).
• 2020.01 Over 10 awards in robotics competitions at the provincial level and above.

📚 Review Services

Active Journal Reviewer for

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
• Neurocomputing
• Defence Technology
• International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
• Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
• Mathematical Modelling and Control
• Franklin Open

Conference Reviewer for

• Chinese Automation Congress, 2021-2024
• International Conference on Automation-Intelligence-Safety/International Symposium on Autonomous Systems, 2025

🧑‍🎨 Assistant Supervisory

• Final Year Projects：Jianzhang Sun, Cheng Fai Chao, UG students at the University of Macau, 2024. (Obstacle Avoidance Control for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Position-based Artificial Potential Field Approach)

💬 Random Thoughts

• 2025.01 I’m quite fond of reading the “Tao Te Ching“(道德经), particularly the version elucidated by Prof. Han Pengjie—it’s brimming with profound wisdom.
• 2024.12 I enjoy researching under Dr. Liu’s supervision; he supports my exploration of interesting studies and provides ample opportunities and assistance.
• 2020.09 The website of the lab I previously joined, led by Prof. Wei Lu, can be found here Intelligent Robot Laboratory.