[1] Y.L. Mi, F. Xu*, X.Q. Wang and Y. Liu*. Maximal Tolerable Fault Set of Robust MPC for Passive Fault Tolerance with Predefined Performance, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025, 70(1), 611-618.

[2] C.R. Wang, H.D. Liu, S.C. Chen and F. Xu*. Schatten-p Radius: Optimality Criterion and Optimization for Basic Ellipsotopes with Application to Zonotopes and Ellipsoids, Automatica, 2025, 171, 111926.

[3]Y.D. Fan and F. Xu*. Theoretical Relationship of Set-Based Robust State Estimators: An Optimality Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024, 69(7), 4875-4882. 

[4] Y.L. Mi, K. Shao, Y. Liu*, X.Q. Wang and F. Xu*. Integration of Motion Planning and Control for High-Performance Autonomous Driving Using Tube-based Nonlinear MPC, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles(Regular Paper), 2024, 9(2), 3859‑3875.

[5] F. Xu. A New Input Design Framework for Asymptotic Active Fault Diagnosis with Application to Integrated Diagnosis and Control, Automatica, 2024,162, 111519.

[6] Y.S. Wang, F. Xu*, J.T. Qu and X.Q. Wang. Integrated Design for Active Fault Diagnosis and Control: A Decomposition-Composition Method, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (Regular Paper), 2024,21(4), 7336-7348. 

[7] F. Xu, S. Olaru and M.M. Seron. Observer Gain Optimization for Minimization of Minimal Robust Positively Invariant Sets with Application to Fault Detection, Automatica (Regular Paper), 2024, 160, 111413.

[8] C.R. Wang, H.D. Liu and F. Xu*, Performance Metric and Analytical Gain Optimality for Set-Based Robust Fault Detection, Automatica (Regular Paper), 2024, 159, 111376.

[9] Y.D. Fan, F. Xu*, X.Q. Wang and B. Liang. Exclusion tendency-based observer design framework for active fault diagnosis, Automatica, 2023, 153, 111020.

[10] H.H. Qiu, F. Xu*, B. Liang and X.Q. Wang. Active Fault Diagnosis under Hybrid Bounded and Gaussian Uncertainties, Automatica, 2023,147, 110703. 

[11] F. Xu. Minimal Detectable and Isolable Faults of Active Fault Diagnosis, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023, 68(2), 1138-1145. 

[12] J.B. Tan, S. Olaru, F. Xu* and X.Q. Wang. Towards a Convex Design Framework for Online Active Fault Diagnosis of LPV Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022, 67(8), 4154-4161. 

[13] J.B. Tan, S. Olaru, M.M. Seron and F. Xu*. Set-Based Guaranteed Active Fault Diagnosis for LPV Systems with Bounded Uncertainties. Automatica (Regular Paper), 2021, 128, 109602. 

[14] F. Xu. Observer-Based Asymptotic Active Fault Diagnosis: A Two-Layer Optimization Framework, Automatica (Regular Paper), 2021, 128, 109558.

[15] F. Xu. Generalized Set-Theoretic Interval Observer Using Element-Wise Nonnegativity Transformation, Automatica (Regular Paper), 2021, 125, 109452.  

[16] F. Xu, S.L. Yang and X.Q. Wang. A Novel Set-Theoretic Interval Observer for Discrete-Time Linear Time-Invariant Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021, 66(2), 773 - 780. 

[17] J.B. He, F. Xu*, X.Q. Wang* and B. Liang. Admissibility Analysis and Robust H-infinity Control for T-S Fuzzy Descriptor Systems with Structured Parametric Uncertainties, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2021,29(10),3192-3200.

[18] F. Xu, J.B. Tan, X.Q. Wang and B. Liang. Conservatism Comparison of Set-Based Fault Detection Methods: Set-Theoretic UIO and Interval Observer Cases. Automatica, 2019, 105: 307-313.

[19] F. Xu, J.B. Tan, Y. Wang, X.Q. Wang, B. Liang and B. Yuan. Robust Fault Detection and Set-Theoretic UIO for LPV Systems with State and Output Equations Scheduled by Inexact Scheduling Variables. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Full Paper), 2019, 64(12), 4982-4997. 

[20] F. Xu, J.B. Tan, X.Q. Wang, V. Puig, B. Liang and B. Yuan. Mixed Active/Passive Robust Fault Detection and Isolation Using Set-Theoretic Unknown Input Observers. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2018,15(2), 863-871.