Every year, it undertakes nearly 20 key scientific and technological projects in Jiangsu Province, such as National Natural Science Foundation, 863 High-tech, Doctoral Program Fund of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Electric Power, and Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation. Every year, more than 100 papers are published in international and domestic academic journals and important academic conferences, and two thirds of them are published in international authoritative journals and domestic first-and second-class journals. Many achievements have been made in the international theoretical research in the fields of system identification, adaptive control, predictive control and robust control. It has won the fourth prize of national natural science (only two domestic automation fields won this honor after the Cultural Revolution) and the first prize of scientific and technological progress of the State Education Commission, etc., and has already had a certain influence in the international automatic control field.

While paying attention to theoretical research, the department attaches great importance to the main battlefield of economic construction and transforms scientific and technological achievements into productive forces. A considerable number of people are engaged in the application development and research of advanced manufacturing technology and integrated automation of production process, and have undertaken dozens of application projects of large and medium-sized enterprises in power, chemical industry, machinery, papermaking, metallurgy, textile and other industries. In recent years, more than 30 achievements have been appraised and won prizes, many of which are "domestic leading level and have wide application and popularization value", and some of them have reached the international advanced level. Among them, the CIMS project of Beijing No.1 Machine Tool Plant (863 application project) has won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress, the special prize of scientific and technological progress of the Ministry of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the CIMS industry leading prize of the United States, which has created considerable economic benefits for the enterprise.

20 14, 14 In June, the project "Theoretical Research on Modeling, Analysis and Control of Multi-source Interference System" led by a team of professors from the School of Automation of Southeast University won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award of 20 13, which is the first time that Southeast University won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award. Aiming at the conservatism of robust control method and the fragility of internal model control method to the model, the team systematically studied the control problem of multi-interference system for the first time, solved the problems of decoupling separation and simultaneous suppression and cancellation of multi-channel interference, and proposed a series of fine anti-interference control theories and methods with composite layered structure, which combined interference observation, feedforward compensation and feedback suppression, extended to the field of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, and successfully verified and applied in aircraft navigation and control system. This award is a phased achievement of our school's long-term emphasis on basic research, and also lays an important foundation for high-tech innovation.