Title: From Consensus Control To Distributed Optimization
Speaker: Zhengtao Ding
Time: 16:00pm, April 1, 2017
Location: Meeting Room C317, School of IoT Engineering
Abstract:
In this network-connected world, many tasks require coordination and cooperation of subsystems/agents via network connection. The completion of those tasks, such as consensus control, formation control, optimal coverage and distributed optimization, relies on proper interplay of system dynamics and network connections. This talk will cover some fundamental concepts in consensus control and control of networked connected systems, and other several aspects of the above mentioned talks based on the speaker’s own involvements. In particular, the talk will cover consensus-based distributed optimization algorithms and their applications to power systems, formation control and optimal coverage of mobile robots.
Biography:
Dr. Zhengtao Ding graduated with BEng from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He then studied control engineering in the Control Systems Centre, UMIST, with MSc in systems and control and PhD in control systems. Having worked in Singapore for ten years, he joined University of Manchester in 2003, initially with School of Engineering, and subsequently the Control Systems Centre, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, after the merger of the university with UMIST in 2004. He is now a senior lecturer in control engineering and the director for MSc in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering. His research interests are mainly focused on nonlinear and adaptive control theory and their applications. He authored a number of journal papers in the area, and a book entitled Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Systems. He has supervised several PhD students and a number of MSc/MPhil students. He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Transactions of Institute of Measurement and Control and several other journals.
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