Yunjun Xu is a professor in the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research is in the general area of guidance, navigation and control and robotics. He earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Florida. His research group has been developing robotic technologies benefiting agricultural productions. Xu's work is supported by NSF, USDA, etc. including National Robotic Initiative Grants.

• Mark, Y. Xu, and B. Dickinson, “Consensus-Based Decentralized Aerodynamic Moment Allocation among Synthetic Jets and Control Surfaces,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Online August 2018.


• Freese, and Y. Xu, “Multi-Phase Scouting Control of an Agricultural Field Robot with Reachability Analyses,” Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Online November 2018.


• Mark, Y. Xu, and J. Gou, “Deposition Thickness Modeling and Parameter Identification for a Spray Assisted Vacuum Filtration Process in Additive Manufacturing,” the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 139, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 041002.


• G. Defterli, Y, Shi, Y. Xu, and R. Ehsani, “Review of Robotic Technology for Strawberry Production,” American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers – Applied Engineering in Agriculture, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2016, pp. 301-318, DOI: 10.13031/aea.32.11318.


• Shen, A. Mark, K. Thompson, Y. Xu, F. Liang, J. Gou, and B. Mabbott, “Thermal modeling and coefficient identification of shape memory polymer nanocomposites structure,” Applied Physics Letters, 106(8), 2015, pp. 081907.