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SUMMARY:Coordination\, synchronization\, and consensus  
DTSTART:20090616T141500
DTSTAMP:20260407T045603Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre\, University of Liège\nThis talk wil
 l survey old and recent advances in three closely related problems. Coordi
 nation 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 st
 ate-space that are not vector spaces but manifolds. We highlight the numer
 ous applications of consensus on manifolds and discuss some open problems 
 in this rich area of dynamics and control. \n Prof. Sepulchre's homepage
LOCATION:BC-01
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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