Workshop on Distributed Communication, Sensing, and Control The Workshop will be held in summer of 2007 on the Campus of Yale University

协同控制和网络化控制领域正处于技术革命的边缘。在国家安全、交通运输、通信和商业领域的新兴应用要求分布式网络能够多用户通信、协同信号和信息处理、多模态数据的传感器融合以及分布式计算、驱动和控制。这些信息丰富的应用程序对网络提出了特定的要求：网络必须优雅地扩展到大量代理；代理可能是地理上分布的，通常需要在有噪声的、带宽有限的信道上进行通信；网络可以由异构组件组成，包括计算能力有限的嵌入式系统；而且，网络的体系结构可能是分散的，需要代理之间的局部协调。研讨会将汇集许多研究社区的初级和高级成员，展示新的成果，并讨论受传感和计算技术发展影响的分布式通信、传感和控制系统的许多方面。智力优势：虽然过去十年在分布式通信、传感和控制等各个领域的重大研究和发展努力为实际部署奠定了初步基础，但这种分布式传感和控制系统的实现仍处于起步阶段。从系统级的角度来看，主要挑战是由于难以通过底层功率/带宽受限的自组织网络基础设施实现分布式动态环境的推理和控制任务目标。主要的挑战可以概括为：如何在不确定的情况下，在大量共享空间分布动态信息的通信受限移动代理之间做出决策和确定控制动作。在过去的几年里，人们对开发一个综合分布式传感、通信和控制问题的通用框架非常感兴趣。这种系统级视图需要获得定性理解（例如缩放属性，鲁棒性）以及能够在整体资源约束下执行有效推理和控制任务的实际系统的定量综合。虽然，问题的本质是这样的，它重叠和交叉了许多传统的系统理论领域（信号处理，决策和控制，信息论），分布式传感，通信和控制的问题主要是在这些领域的背景下研究的。更广泛的影响：提议的研讨会将汇集研究分布式传感和控制的信息和数学方面的研究人员。研讨会将促进这种合作。该研讨会将汇集来自不同社区的国际知名研究人员，但重点关注分布式感知、通信和网络控制的共同主题。鉴于该主题的同时代性质，本次研讨会将引起极大的兴趣。研讨会的结果将发表在IEEE控制系统杂志上。

The fields of cooperative and networked control are on the verge of a technological revolution. Emerging applications in national security, transportation, communication, and commerce require distributed networks to be capable of multi-user communication, collaborative signal and information processing, sensor fusion of multi-modal data, and, distributed computation, actuation, and control. These information rich applications place specific demands upon networks: the networks must scale gracefully to a large numbers of agents; the agents may be geographically distributed, often requiring communication over noisy, bandwidth-limited channels; the networks may consist of heterogeneous components, including embedded systems with limited computational power; and, the network's architecture may be decentralized, requiring local coordination amongst the agents. The workshop will bring together many junior and senior members of the research community to present new results and discuss many facets of distributed communication, sensing, and control systems which have been influenced by development of sensing and computing technologies.Intellectual Merit:: While significant research and development effort over the last decade in the individual fields of distributed communication, sensing and control has laid the initial ground- work for practical deployment, realization of such distributed sensing and control systems is still in its infancy. The principle challenges, from a systems-level perspective, arise due to the difficulty in realizing the objectives of inferencing and control tasks for a distributed dynamical environment through an underlying power/bandwidth constrained ad-hoc networked infrastructure. The main challenge can be summarized as follows: How to make decisions and determine control actions under uncertainty amongst a large numbers of communication constrained mobile agents that share spatially distributed dynamic information. Over the last few years there has been a significant interest in developing a general framework that combines issues of distributed sensing, communication and control. This kind of systems-level view is needed to get a qualitative understanding (e.g. scaling properties, robustness) as well as a quantitative synthesis of real systems that are capable of performing effective inferencing and control tasks under overall resource constraints. Although, the nature of the problem is such that it overlaps and intersects many traditional areas of systems theory (signal processing, decision and control, information theory), the problem of distributed sensing, communication, and control has been studied primarily within the context of these areas. BROADER IMPACTS: The proposed workshop will bring together researchers studying informational and mathematical aspects of distributed sensing and control. The workshop will facilitate this collaboration. The workshop will bring together internationally reputed researchers from different communities but focused on the common theme of distributed sensing, communication, and control over networks. On account of the contemporaneous nature of the topic, there will significant interest in this workshop. The results of the workshop will be published in IEEE Control Systems magazine.