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Seminars and Conferences
New results in synchronization of nonlinear multi-agent systems
New event in the IEEE CSS Italy seminar series, organised by the System Identification and Control-SIC research group of the Department of Automatic Control and Computer Science-DAUIN.
The seminar is entitled New results in synchronisation of nonlinear multi-agent systems, and will be held by Daniele Astolfi.
Abstract
This seminar will present some recent results on the problem of state synchronisation of identical multi-agent systems described by continuous-time nonlinear dynamics. The proposed conditions are studied within the framework of contraction theory and metric-based analysis. Furthermore, general sufficient conditions, based on a killing vector condition, will be provided to address the problem in the case of systems described by input-affine nonlinear models, and some more constructive strategies will be briefly discussed. To this end, the construction of a Lyapunov function will also be explored in two different contexts: the case of undirected networks connected to a leader and the case of undirected (weighted) graphs in the absence of a leader. Finally, equivalent results in the context of discrete-time and hybrid dynamics will be discussed.
Speaker: Daniele Astolfi - LAGEPP, Università di Lione 1 (Francia)
Biography
Daniele Astolfi received a joint Ph.D. in Control Theory from the University of Bologna (Italy) and Mines ParisTech (France) in 2016. He received the 2016 Best Italian Ph.D. Thesis Award from SIDRA. He has been a CNRS Researcher at LAGEPP in Lyon, France, since 2018. His research focuses on nonlinear systems theory, with applications in observers and regulation. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IFAC journal Automatica since 2018 and for the European Journal of Control since 2023.
The event will be held in the following two formats:
The seminar is entitled New results in synchronisation of nonlinear multi-agent systems, and will be held by Daniele Astolfi.
Abstract
This seminar will present some recent results on the problem of state synchronisation of identical multi-agent systems described by continuous-time nonlinear dynamics. The proposed conditions are studied within the framework of contraction theory and metric-based analysis. Furthermore, general sufficient conditions, based on a killing vector condition, will be provided to address the problem in the case of systems described by input-affine nonlinear models, and some more constructive strategies will be briefly discussed. To this end, the construction of a Lyapunov function will also be explored in two different contexts: the case of undirected networks connected to a leader and the case of undirected (weighted) graphs in the absence of a leader. Finally, equivalent results in the context of discrete-time and hybrid dynamics will be discussed.
Speaker: Daniele Astolfi - LAGEPP, Università di Lione 1 (Francia)
Biography
Daniele Astolfi received a joint Ph.D. in Control Theory from the University of Bologna (Italy) and Mines ParisTech (France) in 2016. He received the 2016 Best Italian Ph.D. Thesis Award from SIDRA. He has been a CNRS Researcher at LAGEPP in Lyon, France, since 2018. His research focuses on nonlinear systems theory, with applications in observers and regulation. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IFAC journal Automatica since 2018 and for the European Journal of Control since 2023.
The event will be held in the following two formats:
- In person: Sala riunioni 4 - DAUIN - Corso Castelfidardo 34, Torino
- Online: at this link