以第一作者在CRC Press出版英文专著1部，以第一作者共发表/录用Automatica 和IEEE Transactions 论文9篇，其中3篇论文进入进入ESI（基本科学指标数据库）前0.1%-1%高被引论文数据库并入选科研前沿(Research Front)论文。以第一作者共计发表/录用SCI 检索期刊论文15 篇，EI 检索期刊论文1 篇。研究成果得到 19 个国家和地区，80个研究机构，146位学者的引用。部分代表性论著如下:

英文专著：

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

代表性论文(Automatica和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.