Date and Time: Friday, September 25, 2020 at 1300 AEST
Speaker: Emilien Flayac, University of Melbourne
Title: Flocking Formation under Communication Failures for a Class of Cucker-Smale Systems
Abstract: This presentation is about sufficient conditions for the emergence of flocking in a class of strongly cooperative non-linear multi-agent systems subject to communication failures. Our approach is based on a combination of Lyapunov analysis along with the formulation of a novel persistence condition for cooperative systems. The latter can be interpreted as a lower bound on the algebraic connectivity of the time-average of the interaction graph generated by the communication weights and provides quantitative convergence rates towards flocking.
Bio: Emilien Flayac is currently a Research Fellow on the AUSMURI project at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the University of Melbourne. He received his M.Sc. degree in Optimisation and Control from Paris-Saclay University in 2016, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Paris-Saclay University in France in 2019. His current research interests include, nonlinear observers, optimisation-based estimation, particle filtering, dual control, and stochastic model predictive control.
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