Pinning Control of Complex Networked Systems

Overview.- Pinning control for complete synchronization of complex dynamical networks.- Pinning control for cluster synchronization of complex dynamical networks.- Distributed pinning-controlled second-order consensus of multi-agent systems.- Distributed pinning-controlled consensus in a heterogeneous influence network.- Distributed pinning-controlled flocking with a virtual leader.- Distributed pinning-controlled flocking with preserved network connectivity.

Housheng Su received his B.S. degree in Automatic Control and his M.S. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2008. From December 2008 to January 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Since January 2010, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests lie in the areas of multiagent coordination control theory and its applications to autonomous robotics and mobile sensor networks.

Xiaofan Wang received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Suzhou University in 1986, his M.Sc. degree in Computational Mathematics from Nanjing Normal University, China in 1991, and his Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, China in 1996. Since 2002, he has been a Professor in the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Since 2008, he has been a Distinguished Professor of SJTU. He received the 2002 National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of P. R. China and the 2005 Guillemin-Cauer Best Transactions Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. His current research interests include analysis and control of complex dynamical networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE.