Adaptive Quantization Control – Theory and Application

Prof. Jing Zhou
University of Agder, Norway

In modern control engineering systems, information and sensing technology are commonly used in real-time measurement systems, providing variable resolution quantitative measurements in control systems, such as in electric power grid systems, intelligent transportation systems, offshore systems, etc. These control systems are commonly implemented via communication channels. An important aspect is to use quantization schemes that have sufficient precision and require a low communication rate. There is a great deal of theoretical interest in addressing quantization control problems, understanding quantization in control design and stability analysis, and developing the theories that capture both the control design and information systems. This talk will address the adaptive control of dynamic systems in the presence of uncertainty, nonlinear dynamics, and quantization. It will show how the effects of quantization in control systems can be treated in a unified and systematic manner by using adaptive control design. Several applications will be discussed in the end.

Biosketch

Dr. Jing Zhou is a full professor and a research director of the Priority Research Center of Mechatronics, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, Norway. She is a leader of Robotics and Autonomy at the Norway National Research-Based Innovation Center – SFI Offshore Mechatronics. She received the B.Eng. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2006.
Professor Zhou is a Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA). She has served on the Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Systems & Control Letter, IEEE CSS Conferences, etc. She also serves as a technical committee on several IEEE CSS and IES. She has been actively involved in organizing international conferences playing the roles of General Chair, General Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, Program Committee Member, Invited Session Chair and so on.
Dr. Zhou’s research activities are in the fields of adaptive and nonlinear control, networked control, cyber-physical systems, robotics, and control applications to offshore mechatronics systems including oil drilling systems, cranes, marine vessels, wind turbines, etc.