About Lecture: Cooperative control of multi-agent systems has received considerable attention in the systems and control community over the past two decades. This is mainly because of its great potential in real-world applications, such as search and rescue by a team of unmanned ground/aerial vehicles, and ocean sampling using a fleet of underwater gliders. This talk will present the cooperative output consensus problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems by event-triggered control. First, the event-triggered control approach will be briefly reviewed. Then, a fully distributed event-triggered control strategy with an adaptive event-triggering mechanism is proposed for the considered systems. With this control strategy, the output consensus of the system is achieved asymptotically with intermittent communication. The proposed event-triggering mechanism is independent of any global information. Moreover, the continuous monitoring issue can be avoided.

About Lecturer：

Dr. Lu Liu received her Ph.D. degree in 2008 in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From 2009 to 2012, she was an Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo, Japan, and then a Lecturer at The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Then she joined the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are primarily in networked dynamical systems, nonlinear control systems, and distributed systems. She received several best paper awards in flagship conferences, including the Guan Zhaozhi Award of the 27th Chinese Control Conference in 2008, and the Shimemura Young Author Award of the 11th Asian Control Conference in 2017. She received the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao) from the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2022.

Dr. Liu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Control Theory and Technology, and Unmanned Systems. She served in the organizing committee or operating committee of several international conferences including General Chair of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, General Chair of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Program Chair of the 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing, and Program Chair of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation.