报告1：Distributed Model Predictive Control Framework for Multi-Agent Systems: Design and Applications

报告 2：Academic Writing for Graduate Students

报告人：施阳，加拿大维多利亚大学教授

邀请人：丁锋、刘艳君、张霄

报告地点：物联网工程学院C317

报告时间：2025年6月10日（周二）上午 9：00-11：00

报告摘要1：The past decade has witnessed a phenomenal interest in developing distributed model predictive control (MPC) methods for a team of cooperative agents, e.g., a fleet of autonomous vehicles. Compared to centralized MPC, distributed MPC essentially assigns the computational load to multiple sub-controllers that are ‘‘connected’’ together and can share information via networks, thus fulfilling the real-time requirement of the overall large-scale control system. In this talk, firstly, several new design techniques of the distributed MPC design will be presented: robustness enhancement, compensation for network-induced constraints, event-triggered design. Secondly, the application of distributed MPC to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV-s), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV-s) will be introduced. Some of the implementation issues will be addressed. Lastly, some conclusions and comments on future research will be presented.

报告摘要2：Effective academic writing is a critical skill for graduate students to communicate their research clearly and professionally. This talk is designed to help graduate students at all levels improve their writing proficiency and increase their chances of successful publication.

报告人简介：施阳博士目前为加拿大维多利亚大学机械工程系终身教授，是加拿大工程院院士，加拿大工程研究院院士，是IEEE Fellow(国际电子电器工程师协会), ASME Fellow(美国机械工程师协会)和CSME Fellow(加拿大机械工程师协会)。研究集中于工业信息物理系统、网络及分布式控制系统、模型预测控制、机电系统及机器人系统设计与控制、能源系统的优化调度与控制等。 他2007获得加拿大萨斯卡彻温大学十佳教学奖；2012年获得维多利亚大学工学院最佳教学奖。2015年获得维多利亚大学年度唯一的最佳研究银奖(Craigdarroch Silver Medal)；2013年获得日本学术振兴会特邀访问教授奖；获得2017年IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems年度最佳论文奖；2018年获得德国洪堡研究基金; 2023年获得加拿大机械工程师协会两年颁发一次的Mechatronics奖章；2023年获得尤金·米特尔曼成就奖；2024年获得IEEE Canada 杰出工程师奖。目前任IFAC Council member; IEEE工业电子学会副主席，曾担任IES 工业信息物理系统技术委员会主席(2019/1-2022/12)，任IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics的主编(Editor-in-Chief)，任多家国际期刊的副编辑，包括：Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Annual Review in Controls等。