Wang David
Professor Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates Supervisor of Master's Candidates
Gender:Male
Alma Mater:Dalian University of Technology
Degree:Doctoral Degree
School/Department:School of Control Science and Engineering
Discipline:Control Theory and Control Engineering. Pattern Recognition and Intelligence System. Navigation, Guidance and Control
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Date:2019-03-13
Indexed by:Journal Article
Date of Publication:2017-07-04
Journal:INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE
Included Journals:SCIE、EI
Volume:48
Issue:9
Page Number:1787-1795
ISSN:0020-7721
Key Words:Multi-agent systems; cooperative control; optimal control
Abstract:This paper studies the distributed optimisation problem for multi-agent systems with the first-order dynamics over Markovian switching topologies. The interaction topology among agents' switches following a Markov process and each topology is modelled as a state of the Markov process. The aim is to minimise the global cost functions and make the agents converge to the optimal point through the network communication between the agents, where each agent has a local convex cost function only known by itself. Utilising the knowledge of convex analysis and graph theory, we establish a distributed algorithm for the optimisation problem with randomly switching topologies. A sufficient condition for the existence of such algorithm is obtained by using the Lyapunov method. Besides, the result is also extended to the cases of a Markov process with partially unknown transition rates. Finally, numerical simulations are given to validate the proposed algorithm.
Dong Wang received the B.Sc. degree in automation and the M. Eng. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2010. Since 2010, he has been with the Dalian University of Technology, China, where he is currently a professor with the School of Control Science and Engineering. His current research interests include multi-agent systems, distributed control, distributed optimization, swarm robotics and switched systems.
He has published 1 monograph in Springer, and published and accepted more than 120 papers in core journals and conferences, including 5 papers 4 regular papers in Automatica, 4 papers in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, with a total of more than 2,900 citations from Google Scholar.
He serves as an associate editor of the journals, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Information Sciences and Neurocomputing, and an editorial board member of the core journals, such as, Control Theory and Applications, and CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems. He served as the Secretary-General of the 36th China Control Conference and the 25th China Process Control Conference, the Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Command and Control Society, a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the Chinese Society of Automation, a member of the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Chinese Command and Control Society, and a member of the Program Committee of several international conferences.
