Title: Fault Tolerant Control of High-Order Fully Actuated Systems

Abstracts:High-order fully actuated systems are more suitable for controller design, because the whole structure is fully parameterized, and the nonlinearity can be decoupled. However, system faults may disrupt the nonlinear cancellation principle of fully actuated systems, thus fault tolerant control (FTC) of high-order fully actuated systems need to be studied, which is a key technology to improve the safety and reliability of complex systems. This report gives the latest progress of my group on the FTC of high-order fully actuated systems, including both deterministic and stochastic systems.

Biography: Zhou Donghua: Professor, doctoral supervisor at Southeast University, Chief Scientist of the Institute of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, and Director of the National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Mine Safety Detection Technology and Automation Equipment. He holds a Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and completed his postdoctoral studies at Zhejiang University. He has previously served as the Director of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, Vice President of Shandong University of Science and Technology, Chairman of the Teaching Steering Committee for Automation-related Majors in Higher Education Institutions under the Ministry of Education, member of the 6th and 7th Control Science and Engineering Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council, and Chairman of the Fault Diagnosis and Safety Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation for three consecutive terms (the 3rd, 4th, and 5th). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program, a Leading Talent of the "Ten Thousand Talents Plan," the leader of an innovative research group funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, and the head of a national university teacher team in the style of Huang Danian. He also enjoys a special government allowance from the State Council. He concurrently holds positions such as a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety for Technical Processes and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association of Automation.

His primary research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of dynamic systems, as well as theories for operational safety assessment. As the first completing author, he has received three national-level awards (including two second prizes for the National Natural Science Award and one second prize for National Teaching Achievements), and five first prizes for science and technology from provincial/ministerial levels and nation.