Title:  Fully Actuated System Approach and Data Driven Control

Abstract: Inspired by the practical mechanical fully actuated systems, the fully actuated system (FAS) approach, which is parallel to the well-known state-space one, has been recently proposed for general dynamical control system analysis and designs. The state-space models are convenient for obtaining the state vectors (state responses or estimates), but not the control vectors, while the FAS models are those from which the control vectors can be explicitly solved out, and thus can best perform the control. The FAS approach has found its great power in dealing with control of complicated nonlinear dynamical systems, including the time-varying nonlinear systems with time-varying delays, constrained systems and complex nonholonomic systems. In this talk, the backgrounds and the development of the FAS approach are briefly outlined, and applications of FAS approach in data driven control are also discussed.

Biography: Guang-Ren Duan received his Ph.D. degree in Control Systems Sciences from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China, in 1989. After a two-year post-doctoral experience at the same university, he became professor of control systems theory at that university in 1991. From December 1996 to October 2002, he visited the University of Hull, the University of Sheffield, and also the Queen's University of Belfast, UK. He is the founder and presently the Honorary Director of the Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology. Recently, he has also established the Center for Control Science and Technology at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and is serving as the dean for the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing at SUSTech. He is a Member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and has served as Vice President of the Control Theory and Applications Committee, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and Associate Editor of a few international journals. His main research interests include fully actuated system theories for nonlinear systems, parametric control systems design, descriptor systems, spacecraft control and magnetic bearing control, and he has published 5 books and over 450 SCI indexed publications. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of CAA, IEEE and IET.