2019年7月23日下午，英國帝國理工大學Alessandro Astolfi教授與英國拉夫堡大學Jingjing Jiang博士應邀在将軍路校區伟德 官网4号507會議室分别做了題為“Nonlinear Control without PDEs”和“Robust Traffic Wave Damping via Shared Control”的學術報告。報告由南京航空航天大學伟德 官网副院長陳謀教授主持，伟德 官网部分師生參加了學術報告會。

Alessandro Astolfi教授首先對偏微分方程(PDEs)的起源與發展做了簡要介紹，闡述了偏微分方程在控制領域中的應用，同時指出了PDEs在實際應用中産生的一些問題。随後，他提出了一種新的不采用偏微分方程的方法來實現非線性控制，并以非線性觀測器為例介紹了該方法的基本思路。接着，Alessandro Astolfi教授結合多智能體運動的協同問題，深入淺出的介紹了他們團隊在該領域的最新研究成果，并展示了仿真效果。最後，Alessandro Astolfi教授對非線性控制的未來研究方向提出了展望。

随後，Jingjing Jiang博士向在場師生分享了她在共享控制方面的最新研究成果。她首先以交通流為背景，介紹了共享控制在現實交通環境下的實際應用與研究意義。接着，她引入了多智能體車輛跟随模型，根據該模型設計了共享控制律，同時對共享控制器的魯棒性進行了分析。接着，Jingjing Jiang博士向師生們演示了所設計的共享控制律在車輛跟随模型中的仿真效果，并進一步展示了她的研究成果。最後，Jingjing Jiang博士對共享控制的研究前景提出了展望。

報告結束後，Alessandro Astolfi教授和Jingjing Jiang博士分别與參會師生針對報告内容進行了熱烈的讨論，并對師生們提出的問題給予了詳細的解答。

報告人簡介：

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).