加州大学任伟教授讲座

讲座题目: Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Systems: Algorithms and Applications
讲座时间：11月19日（星期一）晚上18:30-19:30
讲座地点：六教101

讲座摘要: Multi-agent systems have received significant attention due to the advances in computation, communication, storage, sensing, control, and actuation and their potential applications in civilian, military and homeland security sectors. Multi-agent systems pose significant theoretical and practical challenges due to the coupling between computational and physical resources and the interaction through networks. The critical factors for enabling multi-agent systems include low cost, high adaptivity and scalability, great robustness, and easy maintenance. These critical factors favor distributed solutions over centralized solutions. Distributed coordination, where multiple agents collectively achieve objectives in the presence of only local information and local interaction between neighbors, is hence of great significance in multi-agent systems.

  The purpose of this talk is to overview our recent research in distributed coordination of multi-agent systems. Theoretical results on distributed leaderless consensus, distributed single-leader collective tracking with reduced interaction and partial measurements, distributed multi-leader herding control with local interaction, distributed average tracking with multiple time-varying reference signals, and distributed optimization with local information will be introduced. Application examples in multi-vehicle cooperative control including rendezvous, formation keeping, cooperative herding, formation flying, and synchronization of networked robotic arms will also be introduced.

专家简历：任伟教授，美国加州大学河滨分校（University of California, Riverside）电气与计算机工程系，教授，IEEE Fellow。2004年在美国杨百翰大学（Brigham Young University）获得博士学位，2004年10月至2005年7月在美国马里兰大学（University of Maryland）从事博士后研究，2005年开始在犹他州立大学（Utah State University）任教，2011年7月起在加州大学河滨分校工作。他的主要研究方向是多智能体系统的分布式协调控制，在Springer出版了两本专著。任伟教授于2017年获得IEEE 控制系统协会Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize，于2008年获得美国国家科学基金会杰出青年教授/杰出学术发展奖，现任职系统与控制领域国际学术期刊《Automatica》和《Systems and Control Letters》副主编。