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Ian R. Petersen, Professor

Fellow of IFAC, IEEE, Asian Control Association, Australian Academy of Science

The Australian National University, Australia

Biography: Ian R. Petersen was born in Victoria, Australia. He received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from the University of Rochester. From 1983 to 1985 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. From 2017 he has been a Professor at the Australian National University in the School of Engineering. He was the Interim Director of the School of Engineering at the Australian National University from 2018-2019. From 1985 until 2016 he was with UNSW Canberra where he was a Scientia Professor and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Engineering and Information Technology. He has previously been ARC Executive Director for Mathematics Information and Communications, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research for UNSW and an Australian Federation Fellow. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He also served as an Editor for Automatica. He is a fellow of IFAC, the Asian Control Association, the IEEE and the Australian Academy of Science. His main research interests are in robust control theory, quantum control theory and stochastic control theory.

Speech Title: The Negative Imaginary Grid

Abstract: In this presentation, we first present a brief overview of negative imaginary systems theory including basic linear definitions and stability results, applications to consensus in networked negative imaginary systems, notions of nonlinear negative imaginary systems and corresponding stability results, and consensus in networked nonlinear negative imaginary systems. We then consider the application of these ideas to frequency and angle stability in the electrical transmission grid. We first show that the framework of networked nonlinear negative imaginary systems can provide a way for understanding the frequency and angle stability of the current transmission grid. It is shown that this framework also motivates the introduction of fast controllers into the grid using big batteries as actuators and phase measurement units as sensors. It is shown that such controllers can improve the energy carrying capacity of existing transmission lines and improve the overall resilience of the grid as more and more renewable resources are added. In particular, the theory allows controllers to be added one transmission line at a time, as they become overloaded within the existing grid.

Qing-Long Han, Professor

FIEEE, FIFAC, FIEAust, FCAA

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality)
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Biography: Professor Han is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 1997.
Professor Han was awarded the 2024 IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award (the Highest Award in Industrial Electronics), the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in systems science and engineering, and cybernetics), the 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia), the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2019, 2020, and 2022, respectively, the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award in 2021, and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020.
Professor Han is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) (MAE). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (FIFAC), an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (HonFIEAust), and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (FCAA). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate). He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a Member of IEEE IES Publications Committee, Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is currently the President-Elect, an Executive Board Member, and a Steering Committee Member of Asian Control Association (ACA). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica and the Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Speech Title: Dynamic Event-Triggered Distributed Coordination Control

Abstract: Distributed coordination control is the current trend in networked systems and finds prosperous appli-cations across a variety of fields, such as smart grids and intelligent transportation systems. One fundamental is-sue in coordinating and controlling a large group of distributed and networked agents is the influence of inter-mittent inter-agent interactions caused by constrained communication resources. Event-triggered communication scheduling stands out as a promising enabler to strike a balance between the desired control performance and the satisfactory resource efficiency. What distinguishes dynamic event-triggered scheduling from traditional static event-triggered scheduling is that the triggering mechanism can be dynamically adjusted over time in accordance with both available system information and additional dynamic variables. This talk provides an up-to-date over-view of dynamic event-triggered distributed coordination control. The motivation of dynamic event-triggered scheduling is first introduced in the context of distributed coordination control. Then some techniques of dynam-ic event-triggered distributed coordination control are discussed in detail. Implementation and design issues are well addressed. Furthermore, this talk exemplifies two applications of dynamic event-triggered distributed coor-dination control in the fields of microgrids and automated vehicles. Several challenges are suggested to direct future research.

Girish Nair, Professor

IEEE Fellow

University of Melbourne, Australia

Biography: Girish Nair is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2015 - 2019). His research focuses on the interplay between estimation, control and information theory, in both stochastic and nonstochastic settings. He has received several prizes, including the 2014 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society for introducing nonstochastic information theory and a 2006 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (with Rob Evans) for his work on minimum stabilising data rates. From 2019 - 2024 he was the Principal Australian Investigator for the $5M Australia-US Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative on Neuro-Autonomy (link). From 2017 - 2022 he served as Deputy Head of Department (Research & Research Training), and from 2022 - 2024 he led the Control and Signal Processing research group in the Department. He is the General Chair of the 67th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to be held in Sydney in 2028.