28 July 2011
Feedback, Control and Dynamic Networks
Platform Technologies Research Institute is hosting a Distinguished Lecture presented by Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang, IEEE Fellow and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York
Event details
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Feedback, Control and Dynamic Networks |
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Person: |
Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang IEEE Fellow and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University |
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2012-07-10 |
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10:00am – 11:00am |
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Access Grid Room Building 8, Level 9, Room 63-66 |
Further details
Free event. Bookings essential.
Refreshments will be provided following the event.
RSVP to Platform Technologies Research Institute.
Abstract
Feedback is ubiquitous in man-made and natural systems and is vital for the functioning of many systems in engineering and the life sciences. The lecture will review the crucial role played by feedback in the early development of control theory and practice. The presenter will also outline some challenges arising from various application areas of network science, ranging from transportation systems, smart grid, telecommunication networks to unmanned vehicle systems, to name a few.
Due to the sheer size and complexity of these dynamic networks, tools for stability analysis and controller design are desperately needed. Restricted exchange of information and the presence of communication constraints prevent conventional feedback control theory from being applied directly. During the lecture, the presenter will draw some observations from his work with co-workers on various projects in ship control, networked control systems, Internet congestion control, systems physiology, and smart grid.
Time permitting, Professor Jiang will also discuss some of his recent work on quantized control for nonlinear systems and distributed control design for autonomous multi-agent systems with a fixed structure or with time-variable topology.
About the Presenter
Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang received a BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Wuhan, China in 1988, an MSc in statistics from the University of Paris XI, France in 1989, and a PhD in automatic control and mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France in 1993.
He is currently a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly called Polytechnic University), and an affiliated Changjiang Chair Professor at Beijing University.
His main research interests include stability theory, robust and adaptive nonlinear control, adaptive dynamic programming and their applications to underactuated mechanical systems, communication networks, multi-agent systems, smart grid and systems physiology. He is co-author of the book Stability and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems (with Dr. I. Karafyllis, Springer 2011).
An IEEE Fellow, Professor Jiang is a Subject Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and has served as an Associate Editor for several journals including Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS), Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, European Journal of Control and J. Control Theory and Applications.
Professor Jiang is a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council, the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Young Investigator Award from the NSF of China. He received the Best Theory Paper Award (with Y. Wang) at the 2008 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation. He also won the Guan Zhao Zhi Best Paper Award at the 2011 Chinese Control Conference along with with T. Liu and D.J. Hill.