ECE Seminar - Multi-agent Cooperative Localization: Localizability and Localization Algorithms
Abstract: In many applications, a network of multiple autonomous agents holds eminent promises to achieve a level of performance, capability, robustness, and efficiency beyond what a single agent can provide. However, to be advantageous, multiple agents have to work in an organized manner. Basic requirements include localizing the agents in the world coordinate system, achieving certain desired formation shape, etc. This talk is going to discuss recent progress and present several results regarding distributed localization for networked multi-agent systems. Its aim is to provide a unified framework for distributed localization with different types of measurements such as range, bearing, or both, by using barycentric coordinates. Network localizability and node localizability will be discussed, followed by distributed localization algorithms, for which global convergence is assured.
Zhiyun Lin is currently a tenured full professor in School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IET. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada, in 2005, and then he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in University of Toronto from 2005 to 2007. He joined College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University in 2007 as a research professor and then promoted to a tenured full professor in 2011. In 2017, he moved to Hangzhou Dianzi University and worked as the Director of Artificial Intelligence Institute. He joined Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021. He held visiting professor positions at several universities including The Australian National University (Australia), University of Cagliari (Italy), University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), and Yale University (USA). He is a technical committee member of The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on Networked Systems, and on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. He is Associate Editor of several international journals including IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Control Systems Letters, etc. His research interests focus on multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and swarm robots, and cyber-physical systems. He has authored and coauthored two monographs and over 230 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and conferences.