Scalable optimisation methods for decision making and control in distributed systems

George Mathews (University of Sydney and NICTA)

SYSTEMS AND CONTROL SERIES

DATE: 2012-02-01
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
Over the past decades model predictive control techniques have become standard for the control of linear and nonlinear systems. However as the systems become larger, physically distributed and more complex, centralised approaches become limited by the speed at which information can be communicated to/from a central location and the size of the optimisation problem that must be repeatedly solve. This talk will consider this distributed optimisation problem and discuss solution methods that exploit the local computational and communication resources that may exist is the system. Examples will be given for the techniques applied to the control of distributed sensor networks undertaking surveillance and search tasks. In addition directions of current and future work in the areas of state estimation and control of smart grids will be highlighted.

11:00-12:00, Wednesday 1st February, NICTA Boardroom Level 2