报告题目: Distributed Control of Networked Multi-agent Systems: Algorithms and Applications

报告时间：2014年6月11日上午10:00-11:30

报告地点：主教学楼1906

报告人：任伟

主办单位：自动化学院

报告内容简介：

While autonomous agents that perform solo missions can yield significant benefits, greater efficiency and operational capability will be realized from teams of autonomous agents operating in a coordinated fashion. Potential applications for networked multiple autonomous agents include environmental monitoring, search and rescue, space-based interferometers, hazardous material handling, and combat, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. Networked multi-agent systems place high demands on features such as low cost, high adaptivity and scalability, increased flexibility, great robustness, and easy maintenance. To meet these demands, the current trend is to design distributed control algorithms that rely on only local interaction to achieve global group behavior.
The purpose of this talk is to overview our recent research in distributed control of networked multi-agent systems. Theoretical results on distributed leaderless consensus with vehicle dynamics including first- and second-order linear dynamics, rigid body attitude dynamics, and Euler-Lagrange dynamics, distributed single-leader collective tracking with reduced interaction and partial measurements, distributed multi-leader containment control with local interaction, distributed average tracking with multiple time-varying reference signals, and distributed optimization with non-identical constraints will be introduced. Application examples in multi-vehicle cooperative control will also be introduced.

个人简介：

Wei Ren received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 2004. From October 2004 to July 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan. Since July 2011, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on distributed control of multi-agent systems and autonomous control of unmanned vehicles. Dr. Ren is an author of two books Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks (Springer-Verlag, 2011) and Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control (Springer-Verlag, 2008). He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2008. He is currently an Associate Editor for Automatica and Systems and Control Letters.