题目: Cooperative Distributed Information Processing and Control for Networked Systems
 
 报告人: Lihua Xie, IEEE Fellow,Professor of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 
 Networked systems have attracted resurgent interest in recent years. Particular attention
 
 has been devoted to wireless sensor network (WSN) and networked multiagent systems.
 
 WSN consists of inexpensive and lowpower communication devices with inbuilt sensors
 
 called sensor nodes which are spatially distributed to cooperatively monitor physical and
 
 environmental conditions. WSN has been identified as a key technological area and new
 
 frontier which holds the potential to dramatically change the way we live. In this talk, we
 
 shall first give a brief introduction to WSN and research issues associated with target
 
 tracking using WSN. We then discuss research topics related to information processing in
 
 WSN such as sensor management (localization, sensor scheduling and sensor energy
 
 management), bandwidth limited estimation and control, estimation and control over
 
 unreliable networks, and cooperative distributed estimation and control for multiagent
 
 systems. A WSN based target tracking platform and a multirobot cooperative control
 
 platform will be demonstrated. Our WSN platform has the functions of sensor node energy
 
 monitoring, competition based sensor scheduling, distributed target estimation, and Labview
 
 based software system for network status monitoring.
 
 
 Lihua Xie received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Nanjing University
 
 of Science and Technology in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical
 
 engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been
 
 with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
 
 Singapore, where he is currently a professor and the Director, Centre for Intelligent
 
 Machines. He is also a Changjiang adjunct professor of South China University of
 
 Technology. He held teaching appointments in the Department of Automatic Control, Nanjing
 
 University of Science and Technology from 1986 to 1989.
 
 
 Dr Xie’s research interests include robust control and estimation, networked control systems, time
 
 delay systems, control of disk drive systems and sensor networks. In these areas, he has
 
 published many journal papers and co-authored two patents and the books H-infinity Control and Filtering of Twodimensional Systems (with C. Du); Optimal and Robust
 
 Estimation (with F.L. Lewis and D. Popa) and Control and Estimation of Systems with
 
 Input/Output Delays (with H. Zhang). He is an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE
 
 Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE
 
 Transactions on Automatic Control from 2005 to 2007 and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
 
 SystemsII from 2006 to 2007. He was the General Chairman of the 9th International
 
 Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision. Dr Xie is a Fellow of IEEE.