报告题目：Hybrid Flocking Control of Multi-Agent Systems

报告人：Xinzhi Liu

报告时间： 2023年5月29日上午9:30-10:30

报告地点：多学科交叉创新大楼1020

报告内容：As a fascinating collective behavior, flocking is observed in a variety of biological species such as beasts, birds, fish, bees, and ants. In such situations, each individual acts as an autonomous agent and interacts only with its nearby neighbors, while the entire group displays coordinated behavior and can accomplish very complex tasks. Inspired by such collective intelligence of animal groups in nature, there has been an increased research interest in flocking control of multi-agent systems around the world in recent years. This talk discusses the flocking control problem of multi-agent systems with multi-group tracking various virtual leaders. Hybrid protocols are proposed to take into consideration of continuous communications among agents and intermittent information exchanges at a sequence of discrete times. It is shown, by employing results from graph theory and dynamical systems, that agents may be divided into multiple subgroups to follow different leaders while maintaining desired sub-formation configurations as well as collision-free motions.

报告人简介：刘新芝教授现任加拿大滑铁卢大学应用数学系教授。1982 年在山东师范大学数学系获学士学位。1988年在美国德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校获博士学位。1988年至1990年在加拿大阿尔伯塔大学作博士后。1990年受聘于滑铁卢大学为助理教授，并于1994年被聘为该校终身教授。刘教授的研究方向包括: 混合动力系统,非线性系统控制及稳定性,复杂网络的同步,通讯网络模型,传染病模型等。已发表学术论文400余篇，学术专著6部, 学术编著20余部。

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