报告题目：Distributed control and optimization in multi-agent systems: a graph Laplacian perspective

报 告 人：杭州电子科技大学 Zhiyun Lin教授

报告时间：6月8日（周五）9：30-10：30

报告地点：信息学馆301

邀 请 人：控制理论与导航技术研究所 马丹副教授

Abstract

Distributed multi-agent coordination has been a very active subject studied extensively by the systems and control community in last decades, including distributed consensus, formation control, network localization, distributed optimization, etc. This talk is going to review the main results and progress in these areas from a graph Laplacian perspective. The aim is to provide a big picture of research topics in distributed multi-agent coordination and a systematic perspective in terms of graph Laplacian for understanding the fundamental mechanisms. Several types of generalized graph Laplacian will be introduced, based on which specific research issues on consensus, formation control, network localization, distributed optimization will be discussed. This talk will also highlight several promising research directions along with some open problems that are deemed important for future study. 

Biosketch

Zhiyun Lin received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, 2005. He is currently a Professor in the School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. Preceding to this position, he held a professor position at Zhejiang University, China, from 2007 to 2016, and a postdoctoral fellow position at the University of Toronto, Canada, from 2005 to 2007. He held visiting professor positions at several universities including Tokyo University, The Australian National University (Australia), Yale University (USA), University of Cagliari (Italy), University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), University of Groningen (The Netherlands), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). His research interests focus on autonomous systems and robots, distributed control, estimation and optimization, cooperative control of multi-agent systems, hybrid control system theory, etc. He has authored and coauthored one monograph and more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and conferences. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 4000 times. He has been consecutively selected in the list of Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier from 2014 to 2017. He is currently Associate Editor fhor IEEE Control Systems Letters, Hybrid systems: Nonlinear Analysis, and International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Networking.