报告人：Professor Peng Shi, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia

Multi-robot Systems are systems with characteristics of cooperation and decentralization. As the robots often work under complex circumstances, limitations of the hardware that include limited and short-range communication and short-range and passive sensing are likely to be present. As a result of the localization conditions above, the robots need to cooperate in a distributed manner. The fundamental objective for the system is to reach a desired formation of the robots and maintain the formation.

In this talk, the formation control problem for a team of robots will be introduced. We will consider the sensors on the robots have limited ranges, that could be limited or none communication among the robots; and the objective formation could have variable scales or in an arbitrary shape. The robots have to work independently in an interactive and cooperative manner. Control and protocol design will be presented and analyzed. Examples will be given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.

Professor Peng Shi 简介：

石碰，1994年获得澳大利亚纽卡斯尔大学电机工程博士学位，1998年获得南澳大利亚大学数学博士学位。2006年荣获英国格拉摩根大学高级科学博士，2015年荣获阿德莱德大学高级工程博士学位。

他现为澳大利亚阿德莱德大学杰出教授，负责系统与控制实验室。主要从事复杂系统与先进控制理论，计算智能及运筹学等方面的研究。目前已在国际期刊上发表论文超过750篇，h指数为105，引用量达39000余次。2014至2017年，连续四年被评为汤姆森路透全球高被引科学家。荣获过多项国际奖励，2016年获得IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society期刊颁发的Andrew Sage Best Transactions Paper奖。

他现为为电气与电子工程师学会（IEEE）、工程与技术学会（IET）、数学与应用学会（IMA）以及国际管理工程师协会（ISME）的会士。曾担任IEEE南澳大利亚地区，航空、航天和电子系统控制分会主席。现为IEEE Distinguished Lecturer，澳大利亚研究基金会会评专家。

他曾为20余个国际期刊担任主编、副主编，包括Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems; IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; IEEE Access; IEEE Control Systems Letters; Information Sciences; Signal Processing等。