Analysis, modeling and control of human-machine interaction and the emergence of coordination and synchronization in human ensembles

对大量动力系统之间相互作用的研究，通过复杂网络的形式化表示，是当前动力系统和控制理论研究的前沿。特别是，许多研究工作都花在了解集体行为如何出现在一组ofdynamic代理人通过网络互连。复杂网络分析的实际应用的例子从生命和社会科学到物理和工程。这个博士项目的目标将是研究，建模和分析人类玩家群体执行联合任务时协调行为的出现，以开发能够驱动机器人或虚拟玩家与一群人进行互动并形成团队的反馈控制策略。更具体地说，在我的博士学位期间，我的目标是超越二元互动的限制，将人类群体中的同步研究从二元扩展到群体互动，并探索动力学和现象（同步，领导等）。that emerge出现and characterized特点the complex复杂network网络of interactions相互作用between之间individuals个人.这将通过一个创新的计算机为基础的设置，允许研究人类协调不同的互动模式，并在大群体中引入虚拟代理;此外，拟议的软件将允许实验进行匿名通过互联网，使每个参与者不知道其他人的身份。总之，我的项目的目的将是ofdeveloping一个软件平台，调查的机制发病的协调在networksof人类和/或虚拟玩家，并探索新的可能的实施，后者的策略，为rehabilitation的患者受社会障碍.总而言之，我的博士学位的目标将是：- 创建新的软件平台，使个人能够在互联网上执行联合任务，并相互协调，以监测他们的行为和集体现象的出现;基于非线性控制策略建立一种新的认知结构，使虚拟主体在群体中进行交互;- 先从数值上，然后从实验上验证了所提出的虚拟代理认知结构的有效性-探讨该项目中开发的模式和策略在社交障碍患者远程康复中的应用

The study of the interactions among a large number of dynamical systems, represented through the formalismof complex networks, is at the forefront of current research in Dynamical Systems and Control Theory. Inparticular, much research effort is being spent in understanding how collective behavior emerge in a group ofdynamical agents interconnected over a network. Examples of real-world applications of complex networkanalysis span from Life and Social Science to Physics and Engineering. The goal of this PhD project will be tostudy, model and analyse the emergence of coordinated behaviour in groups of human players performing ajoint task in order to develop feedback control strategies able to drive robots or virtual players to engage with agroup of individuals and form a team.More specifically, during my PhD I aim at going beyond the limit of dyadic interaction, extending the study ofsynchronization in human ensembles from dyadic to group interaction and exploring the dynamics and thephenomena (synchronization, leadership etc.) that emerge and characterize the complex network of interactionsbetween individuals. This will be done through an innovative computer-based set-up that allows studyinghuman coordination over different interaction patterns and introducing virtual agents in large groups;furthermore the proposed software will allow experiments to be carried out anonymously over the Internet, sothat each participant is not aware of the others' identity. Summarizing, the aim of my project will be that ofdeveloping a software platform to investigate the mechanisms underlying the onset of coordination in networksof human and/or virtual players, and exploring new possible implementation for the latter in strategies for therehabilitation of patients affected by social disorders.To summarize, the objectives of my PhD will be to: - Create novel software platform to allow individuals to perform joint tasks over the internet and coordinate each other in order to monitor their behaviour and the emergence of collective phenonema - Derive data-driven models of group synchronization; Build a novel cognitive architecture based on nonlinear control strategies for virtual agents to interact in a group; - Validate numerically and then experimentally the effectiveness of the proposed cognitive architecture forvirtual agents - Explore the application of the model and strategies developed during the project to telerehabilitation ofpatients suffering from social disorders