Conference Program of WCICA 2012

WCICA 2012
Plenary Lectures
Plenary Lecture IV
8:30-9:30, Saturday, July 7, 2012
Room 305, Third Floor, Beijing International Convention Center
Cooperative Output Regulation of Multi-Agent Systems
Professor Jie Huang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
China
Chair: Prof. Ben M. Chen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Abstract
In this talk, we will describe the cooperative output regulation problem for multi-agent systems. The
formulation of this problem generalizes the leader-following consensus problem in the sense that the problem
simultaneously addresses asymptotic tracking and disturbance rejection, accounts for large model
uncertainty, and accommodates a general leader system. Like the full information output regulation problem,
this problem can be handled by the feedforward control approach and the internal model approach.
These two approaches can also be used to handle other control problems of multi-agent systems such as
formation, rendezvous, flocking. We will also briefly overview some recent results on this problem, and
point out some possible future research topics on this problem.
Short Biography
Prof. Jie Huang studied Power Engineering at Fuzhou University from 1977 to 1979 and Circuits and
Systems at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) from 1979 to 1982. He got his Master’s
degree from NUST in 1982 and was a faculty member there from 1982 to 1986. He completed his Ph.D.
study in automatic control at the Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and subsequently held a post-doctoral
fellow position there until July 1991. From August 1991 to July 1995, he worked in industry in USA.
In September 1995, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, and is now a professor and the director of Applied Control and Computing
Laboratory there. He served as a Science Advisor to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of
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