The Bio-Inspired X-Structure/Mechanism Approach for Exploring Nonlinear Benefits in Engineering: Part III—The Nonlinear Characteristic Output Spectrum (nCOS) Function for Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Dynamics

Xingjian Jing

Jun 2025 · Springer Nature

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This book presents a unique approach to the design and analysis of beneficial nonlinearity, which can take an important and critical role in engineering systems and thus cannot be simply ignored in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection. A key issue in the area is thus systematically addressed about how to analyze and design potential nonlinearities introduced to or inherent in a system of under study, which is a must-do task in many practical applications involving vibration control, energy harvesting, sensor systems and robots etc. This book, together with several other books in this book series, is to present an up-to-date summary on the most recent development of a cutting-edge method for nonlinearity manipulation and employment developed in recent several years, named as the X-shaped structure or mechanism approach. The X-shaped structure or mechanism is a generic structure or mechanism representing a class of beneficial geometric nonlinearity with realizable and flexible linkage mechanism or structural design of different variants or forms (quadrilateral, diamond, polygon, K/Z/S/V-shape, or others) which all share similar geometric nonlinearity and thus similar nonlinear stiffness/damping properties, flexible in design, and easy to implement. This book is particularly to present a systematic frequency domain analysis, design and optimization method of critical structural or control parameters in nonlinear systems including the X-structure/mechanism dynamics, aiming at better dynamic performance and special nonlinear response as expected in engineering practice. Cases studies in vehicle suspension, energy harvesting, fault detection and fuzzy membership optimization are all showcased. The new analysis and design method introduced in this book definitely present a totally new and powerful approach to optimization and understanding of a class of nonlinear systems from a special frequency domain point of view.

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Prof. Xingjian Jing received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China, M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in Robotics from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, respectively. He also achieved a Ph.D. degree in nonlinear systems and signal processing from University of Sheffield, U.K.. He is now a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, and his current research interests are generally related to Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration, Control and Robots, focusing on theory and methods for employing nonlinear benefits in engineering, including nonlinear frequency domain methods, nonlinear system identification or signal processing, vibration control, robust control, sensor technology, energy harvesting, nonlinear fault diagnosis or information processing, bio-inspired systems and methods, bio-inspired robotics and control etc. He is the recipient of a series of academic and professional awards including 2016 IEEE SMC Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, 2017 TechConnect World Innovation Award in US, 2017 EASD Senior Research Prize in Europe and 2017 the First Prize of HK Construction Industry Council Innovation Award. He has published more than 250 refereed journal papers and obtained 30+ patents filed in China and US. He currently serves or served as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Senior Editor for Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Topic Associate Editor for Nonlinear Dynamics, Specialty Chief Editor on Vibration Systems of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering and the founding EiC for Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations. He was Lead Editor of special issues on ‘Exploring nonlinear benefits in engineering’ published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing in 2018/2019 and 2021/2022, and has been the General Chair of the International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration, and Control since 2021.

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