报告题目：Multi-agent Visual Control: Insights from Classical Mechanics, Nonlinear Systems theory and Biology

报告人：Bijoy K. Ghosh

报告时间：2018年7月26日上午9:30—10:30

报告地点：南一楼中311

报告摘要：

In this talk we introduce a flock of visual agents that rotate and track a visible point target in space. Extending our original work on rotation of human eye movement, we claim that the multi-eye rotation problem has the structure of a Riemannian manifold. We sketch details of this manifold and set the dynamics of the problem as an associated Euler Lagrange equation with the eventual goal of solving an optimal control.  In order to reduce dimension of the associated state space, constraints are imposed from Biology. Versional strategy of binocular eye movement is extended to the proposed multi-agent problem.   Finally, a new Transverse Feedback Linearization approach is introduced that sets up the multi-agent target tracking using techniques from dynamical systems theory.

报告人简介：

Bijoy received the B. Tech and M. Tech degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engg. from India, and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, USA, in 1977, 1979 and 1983, respectively. From 1983 to 2007 Bijoy was with the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, USA, where he was a Professor and Director of the Center for BioCybernetics and Intelligent Systems. Currently he is the Dick and Martha Brooks Regents Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.  He received the Donald P. Eckmann award in 1988 from the American Automatic Control Council, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences Invitation Fellowship in 1997. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000, and a Fellow of the International Federation on Automatic Control in 2014. Bijoy had held visiting positions at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University and Tokyo Denki University, Japan, University of Padova in Italy, Royal Institute of Technology and Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden, Yale University, USA, Technical University of Munich, Germany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.  Bijoy's current research interest is in BioMechanics, Cyberphysical Systems and Control Problems in Rehabilitation Engineering.