Title: Teleoperation of Swarm Robotics
Speaker: Yang Shi, Professor, Fellow of IEEE, ASME, CSME, EIC, CAE
University of Victoria, Canada
Abstract: In this talk, a recent work on the teleoperation of sward robotics will be introduced. During swarm teleoperation, the human operator may threaten the distance-dependent inter-robot communications and, with them, the connectivity of the slave swarm. To prevent the harmful component of the human command from disconnecting the swarm network, we develop a constructive strategy to dynamically modulate the interconnections of, and the locally injected damping at, all slave robots. By Lyapunov-based set invariance analysis, the explicit law for updating that control gains has been rigorously proven to synchronize the slave swarm while preserving all interaction links in the tree network. By properly limiting the impact of the user command rather than rejecting it entirely, the proposed control law enables the human operator to guide the motion of the slave swarm to the extent to which it does not endanger the connectivity of the swarm network.
Biography: Yang SHI received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering and automatic control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2005. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, during 1998-2000. From 2005 to 2009, he was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. In 2009, he joined the University of Victoria, and now he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. His current research interests include networked and distributed systems, model predictive control (MPC), cyber-physical systems (CPS), robotics and mechatronics, navigation and control of autonomous systems (AUV and UAV), and energy system applications.
On teaching and mentorship, Dr. Shi received the University of Saskatchewan Student Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2007, and the Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 2012 at the University of Victoria (UVic), and the 2023 REACH Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and Mentorship. On research, he is the recipient of the JSPS Invitation Fellowship (short-term) in 2013, the UVic Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Research in 2015, the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2018; CSME Mechatronics Medal (2023); IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award (2023); the 2024 IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Award. He is IFAC Council Member; VP on Conference Activities of IEEE IES and the Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2025/01-); he also serves as Associate Editor for Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Annual Review in Controls, etc.
He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), IEEE, ASME, CSME, and a registered Professional Engineer in British Columbia, Canada.
个人简介：
施阳博士， 1998年于西北工业大学获得博士学位；2005年于加拿大阿尔伯塔大学获得电子与计算机工程博士学位。2005-2009在加拿大萨斯喀彻温大学任助理教授及副教授；目前为加拿大维多利亚大学机械工程系终身教授。 施阳博士的研究集中于工业信息物理系统、网络及分布式控制系统、模型预测控制、机电系统及机器人系统设计与控制、能源系统的优化调度与控制等。
他2007获得加拿大萨斯卡彻温大学十佳教学奖；2012年获得维多利亚大学工学院最佳教学奖。2015年获得维多利亚大学年度唯一的最佳研究银奖(Craigdarroch Silver Medal)；2013年获得日本学术振兴会特邀访问教授奖；获得2017年IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems年度最佳论文奖；2018年获得德国洪堡研究基金; 2023年获得加拿大机械工程师协会两年颁发一次的Mechatronics奖章；2023年获得IEEE尤金·米特尔曼成就奖；2024年获得IEEE Canada 杰出工程师奖 (IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Award)。曾任IEEE工业电子学会副主席，IES工业信息物理系统技术委员会主席(2019/1-2022/12)。目前任IFAC理事会成员(Council member)；任IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics的主编，任多家国际期刊的副编辑，包括：Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Annual Review in Controls等。
施阳教授是加拿大皇家科学院院士，加拿大工程院院士，加拿大工程研究院院士，是IEEE Fellow(国际电子电器工程师协会), ASME Fellow(美国机械工程师协会)和CSME Fellow(加拿大机械工程师协会)。
