内容简介：

Bode integral relations and Shannon capacity theorems are pillars of feedback and information theories, and they laid the very foundation for the design of control systems and communication systems, respectively. As today’s technological world is increasingly more information-rich and performance-driven, there has been growing recognition that control and communication, the two cornerstones of modern technologies, may and should be integrated ever more closely, and that the design of new engineering systems and networks can benefit from the fusion of control and communication theories.  Relating to our own experiences and viewpoints, in this talk sequence we shall present a control theorist’s perspective into this intriguing area of scientific inquiry, from the early triumph of feedback theory to the latest development in networked control. The talk will commence with a summary tutorial of the classical and contemporary results in control performance limitation studies, discussing a number of selected problems and results central to the subject including Bode's classical integral relations and their multivariable extensions. This will then usher in the more recent advances, of which a number of canonical optimal control problems and the latest developments in networked control will constitute the primary issues of interest, with the latter focused on the stabilization and optimal control over communication networks subject to stochastic channel noises. A central and unifying theme throughout the talk is the fundamental limitations and limits of control, under perfect or limited information feedback.
 
报告人简介：

Jie Chen is a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. He received the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China in 1982, the M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering, the M.A. degree in mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, all from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively.
 
Prior to joining City University, he was with School of Aerospace Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia from 1990 to 1993, and with University of California, Riverside, California from 1994 to 2014, where he was a Professor and served as Professor and Chair for the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2001 to 2006. His main research interests are in the areas of linear multivariable systems theory, system identification, robust control, optimization, time-delay systems, networked control, and multi-agent systems.  He is the author of two books, respectively, (with G. Gu) Control-Oriented System Identification: An H-infinity Approach (Wiley-Interscience, 2000), and (with K. Gu and V.L. Kharitonov) Stability of Time-Delay Systems (Birkhauser, 2003).
 
An elected Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IFAC and a Yangtze Scholar/Chair Professor of China, Dr. Chen was a recipient of 1996 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2004 SICE International Award, and 2006 Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award. He served on a number of journal editorial boards, as an Associate Editor and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, a Guest Editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine, an Associate Editor for Automatica, and the founding Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Control Science and Engineering. He is currently an IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Distinguished Lecturer and serves as an Associate Editor for SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He was a member on IEEE CSS Board of Governors in 2014 and has served as IEEE CSS Chapter Activities Chair since 2015.
 
Tian Qi was born in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China in 1981. She received the B.S. degree in automation from Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China in 2003, the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering, from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
 
Dr. Tian Qi joined the South China University of Technology in 2009, where she is currently a Lecturer. From May 2011 to August 2011, she was with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, as a postdoctoral researcher. From January 2012 to December 2012, she was a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her main research interests are in the areas of networked control, multi-agent systems, time-delay systems, robust control and optimization.