报告人:  张宏伟教授

工作单位: 西南交通大学

报告时间： 10月19日上午9：00

报告地点：英国威廉希尔公司南阶梯教室

报告摘要:

In the past a few years, there has been tremendous interest in developing distributed control laws for multi-agent systems with a primary focus on consensus over nonnegative graphs, which are appropriate for describing collaborative interactions between agents. When both collaborative and antagonistic interactions coexist within a group of agents, nonnegative graphs cease to be applicable. Instead, the underlying communication networks can be more suitably represented by signed graphs, in which a positive edge means collaboration and a negative edge represents an antagonistic interaction. In these cases, new collective behaviors emerge, such as bipartite consensus and sign consensus. This talk presents our latest results on bipartite consensus and sign consensus. Both fixed graph topology and switching graph topologies will be considered.

报告人简介：

Hongwei Zhang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tianjin University in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. Subsequently, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Arlington and the City University of Hong Kong. He is now a Professor at the Southwest Jiaotong University. He is an author of the book ”Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Optimal and Adaptive Design Approaches (Springer, 2014; with F.L. Lewis, K. Hengster-Movric, and A. Das)”. His research interests include distributed control of multi-agent systems, neural adaptive control, and nonlinear control. He is an Associate Editor of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control.