报告题目:Nonlinear  and Robust Model Predictive Control Based on Neural  Computation
    报  告  人:Prof.  Jun Wang,  Chinese University of Hong Kong
    
    报告时间:3月20日(周五)下午15:00
    
    报告地点:南一楼中311室
    邀 请 方:“多谱信息处理技术”国家级重点实验室
 
       Abstract: Model  predictive control (MPC) is a advanced control methodology widely accepted by  both academics and industries. In this talk, nonlinear and robust MPC schemes  will be presented based on feedforward and recurrent neural networks. To avoid  the nonconvexity of problem formulation with nonlinear systems, the original  nonconvex optimization problem associated with nonlinear MPC is first  reformulated as a convex one by means of decomposition via Taylor expansion. An  online supervised learning algorithm is initially developed for estimating the  unknown residual term resulted from the decomposition. To save online  computational time, offline supervised learning is also carried out based on  feedforward neural networks for parameter estimation. The results are extended  for robust MPC based on minimax and invariant-tube formulations. In addition,  population-based collective neurodynamic optimization approach is developed for  nonlinear MPC without linearization. The proposed neural network approaches have  many desirable properties such as global convergence and low complexity.  Simulation results of many examples are provided to demonstrate the  effectiveness and performance of the proposed  approaches.
       Speaker’s Short Bio: Jun Wang is a Professor and the Director of the  Computational Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and  Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to this  position, he held various academic positions at Dalian University of Technology,  Case Western Reserve University, and University of North Dakota. He also held  various short-term visiting positions at USAF Armstrong Laboratory (1995), RIKEN  Brain Science Institute (2001), Huazhong University of Science and Technology  (2006–2007), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2008-2011) as a Changjiang Chair  Professor. Since 2011, he is a National Thousand-Talent Chair Professor at  Dalian University of Technology on a part-time basis. He received a B.S. degree  in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in systems engineering from Dalian  University of Technology, Dalian, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in systems  engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His  current research interests include neural networks and their applications. He  published over 170 journal papers, 15 book chapters, 11 edited books, and  numerous conference papers in these areas. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE  Transactions on Cybernetics since 2014 and a member of the editorial board of  Neural Networks since 2012. He also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE  Transactions on Neural Networks (1999-2009), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics  and its predecessor (2003-2013),  and  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part C (2002–2005), as a  member of the editorial advisory board of International Journal of Neural  Systems (2006-2013), as a guest editor of special issues of European Journal of  Operational Research (1996), International Journal of Neural Systems (2007),  Neurocomputing (2008, 2014), and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (2010,  2011). He was an organizer of several international conferences such as the  General Chair of the 13th International Conference on Neural Information  Processing (2006) and the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational  Intelligence, and a Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (2012). He has been an IEEE Computational  Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2012, 2014-2016). In addition,  he served as President of Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) in 2006  and many organizations such as IEEE Fellow Committee (2011-2012); IEEE  Computational Intelligence Society Awards Committee (2008, 2012, 2014), IEEE  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Board of Directors (2013-2015),   He is an IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow, and a  recipient of an IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award and  APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award in 2011, and Neural Networks Pioneer Award  from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2014), among others.