New Results in Quantized Nonlinear Control

Speaker: Prof. Zhong-ping Jiang (NYU)

Time and Date: 15:00- , Mar. 24, 2014

Place: Room 521, Physics Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

Conventional control theory is developed based on the hypothesis that feedback and control signals take values from continuous regions. In view of the convergence of controls and communications, there has been a surged interest in studying control system design when only quantized signals are available. While most of these recent research activities focus on linear dynamic systems, in this talk, we will present new tools for the development of controller designs for nonlinear systems. Quantized nonlinear control is only at its stage of infancy, and many research problems of fundamental importance and practical relevance remain unanswered along with potential applications involving information technology.

 

 

Biography

Zhong-Ping JIANG received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Wuhan, Wuhan, China, in 1988, the M.Sc. degree in statistics from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, in 1993.

Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York University. His main research interests include stability theory, robust, adaptive and distributed nonlinear control, adaptive dynamic programming and their applications to information, mechanical and biological systems. He is coauthor of the books Stability and Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems (with Dr. I. Karafyllis, Springer, 2011) and Nonlinear Control of Dynamic Networks (with Drs. T. Liu and D.J. Hill, Taylor & Francis, 2014).

Dr. Jiang is a Deputy co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Control and Decision, an Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and has served as an Associate Editor for several journals including Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS), Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, European Journal of Control, and Science China: Information Sciences. Dr. Jiang is a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council, the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Young Investigator Award from the NSF of China. Recent awards recognizing his research work include the Best Theory Paper Award (with Y. Wang) at the 2008 WCICA, and the Guan Zhao Zhi Best Paper Award (with T. Liu and D. Hill) at the 2011 CCC, and the Shimemura Young Author Prize (with his student Yu Jiang) at the 2013 Asian Control Conference in Istanbul, Turkey.

Prof. Jiang is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.