Symposium of New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, and their Applications

这笔赠款将用于资助一个为期两天的研讨会，主题为“非线性动力学和控制的新趋势及其应用”，该研讨会将于2002年9月19日至20日在加利福尼亚州蒙特利的海军研究生院举行。会议将集中在非线性动力学及其应用方面的新的和创新的发展，如非线性观测器设计，合作控制，流量控制和分叉控制。研讨会将包括几次应邀的50分钟演讲和一系列简短的演讲，每次演讲约20分钟。主办方计划将本次会议的会议记录以书籍形式出版。技术的快速变化不断给系统和控制领域的研究人员带来新的挑战和新的机遇，尤其是非线性控制领域的研究。材料科学、主动执行器和传感器以及流体力学的进步向社会提出了挑战，要求为有限维和无限维的复杂非线性系统开发控制器。非线性控制研究人员特别感兴趣的非线性系统模型包括流体动力学、流动控制、智能材料和化学反应。这些复杂系统的非线性不仅导致不稳定，而且还导致周期解、分叉和混沌。最近的研究表明，控制这类系统实现稳定或不稳定是有希望的。协同控制是近年来引起人们广泛关注的另一个非线性系统研究课题。计算和通信的最新进展使得以协作的方式同时操作大量的自治或半自治代理成为可能。这类系统涉及的非线性比单个系统表现出的非线性要复杂得多。涉及多个非线性系统的协调控制问题有着广泛的应用前景。专题讨论会期间的一些专题介绍和讨论将涉及与合作控制及其应用有关的问题(例如，对卫星星座、多管弹药的控制)。研讨会将为知名和年轻的研究人员提供一个机会，就未来研究的新发展和方向交换意见。这些新的挑战要求回顾过去非线性控制理论的主要发展，并讨论新的研究趋势，以满足日益增长的工业应用需求。研讨会将讨论的主要议题包括非线性系统和控制理论的新发展，如非线性观测器、分叉和控制、湍流和控制。

0206627XiaoThis grant will support a two-day symposium on "New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, and Their Applications," to be held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California from September 19-20, 2002. The conference will focus on new and innovative developments in nonlinear dynamics and its applications, such as nonlinear observer design, cooperative control, flow control, and bifurcation control. The symposium will include several invited 50-minute talks and a series of shorter contributed presentations of approximately 20 minutes each. The organizers plan to publish proceedings of this meeting in book form. The rapid pace of change in technology constantly presents new challenges and new opportunities to researchers in systems and control, especially those in nonlinear control. Advances in materials science, active actuators and sensors, and fluid mechanics challenge the community to develop controllers for complex nonlinear systems of both finite and infinite dimensions. Models of nonlinear systems that are especially interesting to researchers in nonlinear control include fluid dynamics, flow control, smart materials, and chemical reactions. The nonlinearity of these complex systems leads not just to instability but also to periodic solutions, bifurcations, and chaos. Recent research shows promise for controlling such systems to achieve stability or instability. Cooperative control is another research topic of nonlinear systems that is attracting increasing attention. Recent advances in computing and communications make it possible to operate a large number of autonomous or semi-autonomous agents simultaneously in a cooperative manner. Such systems involve nonlinearities that are far more complicated than those exhibited by a single system. Problems involving cooperative control of multiple nonlinear systems are found to have numerous applications. Several of the presentations and discussions during the symposium will address issues related to cooperative control and its applications (e.g., control of a satellite constellation, multiple munitions). The symposium will provide an opportunity for both well-established and young researchers to exchange ideas on new developments and directions for future research. These new challenges require a review of major developments in nonlinear control theory from the past and to discuss new research trends to meet the ever-increasing needs of industrial applications. Major topics to be addressed in the symposium include new developments in the theory of nonlinear systems and control such as nonlinear observers, bifurcations and control, and turbulence and control.