Coordination, synchronization, and consensus
Event details
| Date | 16.06.2009 |
| Hour | 14:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Liège |
| Location |
BC-01
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This talk will survey old and recent advances in three closely related problems. Coordination is the distributed control of a collective task. Synchronization is the phase coordination of a collective rhythm. Consensus is the ultimate agreement reached through local but spreading exchange of information. We show some benefits of a unifying geometric approach to the three problems by considering the generalization of the classical consensus problem to state-space that are not vector spaces but manifolds. We highlight the numerous applications of consensus on manifolds and discuss some open problems in this rich area of dynamics and control.
Prof. Sepulchre's homepage
Practical information
- General public
- Free