Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the following Fall 2024 online seminar at the Forum on Robotics & Control Engineering (FoRCE, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW4eqbV8qk8Z3j1YqD8jCJExA-aiMGFZb):
Title: Networked Control of Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Cooperative Driving
Speaker: Dr. Jan Lunze (Professor and Head of the Institute of Automation and Computer Control at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Abstract: Modern means of digital communication make it easy to connect system components whenever information links may contribute to improving the overall system performance. For networked control, they lead to novel control structures and pose fundamental research questions. This seminar presents the control-theoretical view on networked systems, explains the main ideas of control methods for the synchronisation of multi-agent systems and shows for cooperative driving how new methods have been elaborated and successfully tested in experimental setups.
The most important problems appearing in the design of networked control systems concern the information structure: Which components have which model information and sensor readings available for control? For synchronising controllers the existence of a spanning tree is the well-known prerequisite for satisfying a cooperative control goal. However, for cooperative driving, further design requirements have to be satisfied to avoid collisions for all modelled traffic situations. The seminar shows how these additional requirements can be respected by using appropriate local controllers and, if the local requirements are not reachable, how additional communication links can be found in a systematic way. For vehicle swarms, a triangulation method yields a communication structure in which every agent is connected to its geometric neighbour.
Biography: Prof. Dr. Jan Lunze has been the head of the Institute of Automation and Computer Control at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, since 2001. His research interests include networked control, fault-tolerant control, and engineering applications of logic-based systems. He is author of several monographs and textbooks, among others of "Networked Control of Multi-Agent Systems" (2022) and "Graph-Theoretical Methods in Systems Theory and Control" (2024).
www.editionmora.de
Date: November 29, 2024, 12:00 Eastern Time
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S. Burak Sarsilmaz, Utah State University, burak.sarsilmaz@usu.edu
K. Merve Dogan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, dogank@erau.edu
Tansel Yucelen, University of South Florida, yucelen@usf.edu
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