Prof. LIU Lu and her research team, including postdoctoral researchers Dr. GUO Xiaoyu and Dr. HAO Yahui, have been awarded the prestigious "Zhang Si-Ying Outstanding Youth Paper Award" at the 2025 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC). Their award-winning paper, titled "Resilient Distributed Generation With Hydrogen Fuel Cells: A Hierarchical Approach", was selected from over 1,000 submissions as one of only two papers to receive this honor.
The research presents an innovative distributed hierarchical control framework for distributed hydrogen power systems. This framework achieves precise current sharing among networked hydrogen fuel cells, even under challenging conditions like time-varying topologies and intermittent communication. Crucially, this breakthrough enables plug-and-play distributed power generation for hydrogen fuel cells, significantly enhancing system flexibility.
This accolade cements CityU's leadership in the emerging field of control systems for sustainable energy. The developed technology holds significant promise for improving the network flexibility and reliability of hydrogen energy systems, with important application prospects in fields such as aviation propulsion systems and emergency power supplies.