Keynote Speakers
Prof. Shuzhi Sam Ge, IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, IET Fellow
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biography: Shuzhi Sam Ge, IEEE Fellow, PhD, DIC, BSc, PEng, is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of Social Robotics Laboratory of Smart Systems Institute. The National University of Singapore, Singapore. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 1993, and the B.Sc. degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 1986.
He has (co)-authored seven books, and over 300 international journal and conference papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Social Robotics,Springer. He has served/been serving as an Associate Editor for a number of flagship journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transaction on SMC-Systems, and Automatica. He also serves as a book Editor of the Taylor & Francis Automation and Control Engineering Series. At IEEE Control Systems Society, he served/serves as Vice President for Technical Activities, 2009-2010, Vice President of Membership Activities, 2011-2012, Member of Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society, 2007-2009. He is also a Fellow of IFAC, IET, and SAEng. His current research interests include robotics, adaptive control, intelligent systems and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Zongli Lin, IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, AAAS Fellow, CAA Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, USA
Biography: Zongli Lin is the Ferman W. Perry Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 1983, his Master of Engineering degree in automatic control from Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, China, in 1989, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, in 1994. His current research interests include nonlinear control, robust control, and control applications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS and CAA.
Title: Co-Design of Linear Low-and-High Gain Feedback and High Gain Observer for Semi-Global Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems
Abstract: A globally asymptotically stable nonlinear system cascaded by a linear system through its output has been shown to be semi-globally asymptotically stabilizable by low-and-high gain feedback of the state of the linear system if the linear system is stabilizable and right invertible and with all its invariant zeros located in the closed left-half plane. Such low-and-high state feedback can be implemented by an observer. To retain a domain of attraction arbitrarily close to the domain of attraction under a given state feedback, high gain observer is employed to achieve arbitrarily fast decay of the observation errors of all states and the effect of the peaking phenomenon associated with the high observer gain is overcome by saturating the control input outside a region that contains the desired domain of attraction. In this talk, we present a co-design of the linear low-and-high gain state feedback and the high gain observer for semi-global stabilization of such a cascaded system without resorting to saturating the control input. Moreover, our design does not rely on making all state observation errors decay to zero arbitrarily fast.
Invited Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Cheng Siong CHIN
Newcastle University in Singapore, Singapore
Biography: Dr. Cheng Chin received his Ph.D in Applied Control Engineering at Research Robotics Centre in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2008 and M.Sc. (Distinction) in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering from The University of Manchester in 2001. He also graduated with a B.Eng (Hons) in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from NTU in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor (Reader) and Director of Innovation at Newcastle University on the Singapore campus.
He was a Lecturer in Mechatronics Engineering at Temasek Polytechnic. He worked in the consumer electronics industry for more than 4 years before moving into academia. He currently holds 3 U.S. Patents in the area of electronics test systems and components. His research interests include intelligent systems modeling and designing complex systems under uncertain environments such as marine electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and acoustic systems. He is an author/co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers on journals and conference proceedings. He is the Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal, and IEEE Transportation Electrification Community (TEC) eNewsletter. He has served as General Chair, Session Chair, and Technical Committee in various international conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Zhiqiang Miao
Hunan University, China
Biography: Zhiqiang Miao received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2010 and 2016 respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. From 2016 to 2018, he was a post-doc fellow with the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Now he is an Associate Professor with the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, and also a Research Professor at the National Engineering Laboratory for Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University. His research interests include multi-robot systems, mobile robotics, visual navigation, and nonlinear control.
He was the recipient of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of Hunan Province in 2021, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hunan Province in 2018, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award of Chinese Association of Automation in 2018, the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2020, the Best Paper Award of Youth Academic Conference of the Chinese Association of Automation in 2021, the Best Paper Finalist of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics in 2017, and Best Paper Finalist of the IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics in 2021. He served as the Workshop Associate Editor of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and the Technical Committee Member of several international conferences.