Monograph：

1. Yufeng Chen and Zhiwu Li, Optimal Supervisory Control of Automated Manufacturing Systems, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Representive Articles (Automatica + IEEE Transactions)：

1. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li, Kamel Barkaoui, Naiqi Wu, and Mengchu Zhou, “Compact Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems by Petri Nets with Data Inhibitor Arcs,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, in press online, DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2016.2521833, 2016.
2. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li, Kamel Barkaoui and Alessandro Giua, “On the Enforcement of a Class of Nonlinear Constraints on Petri Nets,” Automatica, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 116-124, 2015.
3. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li, Kamel Barkaoui, and Murat Uzam, “New Petri Net Structure and Its Application to Optimal Supervisory Control: Interval Inhibitor Arcs,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1384-1400, 2014.
4. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li, and Mengchu Zhou, “Optimal Supervisory Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems by Petri Nets: A Set Classification Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 549--563, 2014.
5. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li and Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari, “Nonpure Petri Net Supervisors for Optimal Deadlock Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 252-265, 2013.
6. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li, Mohamed Khalgui, and Olfa Mosbahi, “Design of a Maximally Permissive Liveness-Enforcing Petri Net Supervisor for Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 374-393, 2011.
7. Yufeng Chen and Zhiwu Li, “Design of a Maximally Permissive Liveness-enforcing Supervisor with a Compressed Supervisory Structure for Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Automatica, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1028-1034, 2011.
8. Yufeng Chen and Zhiwu Li, “On Structural Minimality of Optimal Supervisors for Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Automatica, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 2647-2656, 2012.
9. Yufeng Chen, Zhiwu Li, and Mengchu Zhou, “Behaviorally Optimal and Structurally SimpleLiveness-enforcing Supervisors of Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 615-629, 2012.