Online Control Seminars on Distributed Estimation and Optimization in Dynamical Systems

Professor Hyungbo Shim of CDSL and Dr. Aneel Tanwani from the French National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS) hosted a series of ten control seminars on the subject of distributed estimation and optimization in dynamical systems. It was held online via Zoom due to the coronavirus outbreak, from September to November this year. These seminars were organized as part of a joint research by Prof. Shim and Dr. Tanwani. Although it was unable to meet the speakers in person, it was a great opportunity to invite ten eminent scholars from six different countries and discuss via Zoom, at various time zones. The seminars are listed below, and the abstracts of each seminar can be found in the links.

Seminars

Distributed Feedback Control of Multi-Channel Linear Systems
Steve Morse (Yale University, USA)

New Approaches to Distributed Hypothesis Testing and State Estimation in Large-Scale Networks
Shreyas Sundaram (Purdue University, USA)

Distributed Averaging and Optimization over Random Networks
Behrouz Touri (University of California at San Diego, USA)

Geometry of Information Structures, Strategic Measures and Associated Control Topologies
Serdar Yuksel (Queen’s University, Canada)

Adjacency Rules for Products of Stochastic Matrices
Ali Belabbas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Distributed output-feedback observer-less consensus control of nonholonomic systems over networks with communication delays
Antonio Loria (CNRS, France)

Regularized and Distributionally Robust Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Florian Dörfler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Strategic decision-making and learning for autonomous agents
Ming Cao (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

Design of Multi-Agent System via Blended Dynamics Approach
Hyungbo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea)

Error Covariance Bounds for Suboptimal filters with Lipschitzean Drift and Random Sampling
Aneel Tanwani (CNRS, France)