2019年7月23日下午，英国帝国理工大学Alessandro Astolfi教授与英国拉夫堡大学Jingjing Jiang博士应邀在将军路校区自动化学院4号507会议室分别做了题为“Nonlinear Control without PDEs”和“Robust Traffic Wave Damping via Shared Control”的学术报告。报告由南京航空航天大学自动化学院副院长陈谋教授主持，自动化学院部分师生参加了学术报告会。

Alessandro Astolfi教授首先对偏微分方程(PDEs)的起源与发展做了简要介绍，阐述了偏微分方程在控制领域中的应用，同时指出了PDEs在实际应用中产生的一些问题。随后，他提出了一种新的不采用偏微分方程的方法来实现非线性控制，并以非线性观测器为例介绍了该方法的基本思路。接着，Alessandro Astolfi教授结合多智能体运动的协同问题，深入浅出的介绍了他们团队在该领域的最新研究成果，并展示了仿真效果。最后，Alessandro Astolfi教授对非线性控制的未来研究方向提出了展望。

随后，Jingjing Jiang博士向在场师生分享了她在共享控制方面的最新研究成果。她首先以交通流为背景，介绍了共享控制在现实交通环境下的实际应用与研究意义。接着，她引入了多智能体车辆跟随模型，根据该模型设计了共享控制律，同时对共享控制器的鲁棒性进行了分析。接着，Jingjing Jiang博士向师生们演示了所设计的共享控制律在车辆跟随模型中的仿真效果，并进一步展示了她的研究成果。最后，Jingjing Jiang博士对共享控制的研究前景提出了展望。

报告结束后，Alessandro Astolfi教授和Jingjing Jiang博士分别与参会师生针对报告内容进行了热烈的讨论，并对师生们提出的问题给予了详细的解答。

报告人简介：

Alessandro Astolfi (IEEE Fellow 2009) is a Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory and the Head of the Control and Power Group at the Imperial College London. He received the Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome, Rome, in 1991, the M.Sc. in Information Theory and the Ph.D (Hons.) with a Thesis on Discontinuous Stabilization of Nonholonomic Systems from ETH Zurich, Zrich, Switzerland, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree on nonlinear robust control from the University of Rome in 1996. He was an Associate Professor with Politecnico of Milano, Milan, Italy, from 1998 to 2003. He has also been a Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, since 2005. His current research interests include control theory and applications, with special emphasis for the problems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and adaptive control, observer design and model reduction. Dr. Astolfi, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), was a recipient of the IEEE CSS A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize in 2007, and the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award in 2012. Prof. Astolfi served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatic and Journal of the Franklin Institute. He is also the member of the Editor Advisory Board of the International Journal of Control.

Dr. Jingjing Jiang, currently a Lecturer in Intelligent Mobility/Autonomous Vehicles in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering (AAE) at Loughborough University, was born in China. She earned the B.Eng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK and the B.Eng degree in Measurement, Control Technology and Instrument from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in2010, the M.Sc. Degree in Control Systems with Departmental prize for Outstanding Achievement from Imperial College London, UK, in 2011, and the Ph.D degree from Imperial College London, in 2016, with a thesis on Shared-Control for Systems with Constraints. After completing PhD, she was appointed as a Research Associate in the Control and Power Group at Imperial College London. She has joined AAE Department at Loughborough University as a Lecturer since September 2018. Her research interests include control design of systems with constraints, human-in-the-loop, ADAS design and development of autonomous vehicles. She is the first author over 10 peer-reviewed publications on IEEE TAC and IEEE TCST. She is currently a Co-investigator for a Technology Strategy Board funded project, Virtual Vehicle Integration and Development (01/01/2019-31/12/2021).