Title: Small-Gain Theory for Stability and Control of Interconnected Systems

Speaker: Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang (New York University, US)

Time: May 14, 16:00

Venue: Conference Room, 6th floor, Building 3, Guangzhou Wushan Campus

[Abstract]

The world is nonlinear and linked. Small-gain theory is one of the most important tools to tackle fundamentally challenging control problems for interconnected nonlinear systems. In this talk, I will first review our early work in nonlinear small-gain theorems and associated nonlinear control design. Then, I will present recent developments in network small-gain theorems for complex large-scale nonlinear systems, with applications to networked and event-triggered control under communications and computation constraints. Finally, I will discuss how small-gain methods can be integrated with reinforcement learning techniques to solve real-time decision-making problems, when the system model is completely unknown. Autonomous driving and human motor control will be used to illustrate our recent research in learning-based control, a new direction in control theory.

Announced by School of Automation Science and Engineering