Recently, Professors Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan, and Guanrong Chen’s paper entitled “Dynamic consensus of linear multi-agent systems” published on IET Control Theory and Applications won the prestigious 2013 IET Control Theory and Applications Premium Award.

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In this paper, the authors, all from Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science of the College of Engineering, Peking University, studied the consensus control problem for general linear multi-agent systems. They developed the notion of consensus region and presented algorithms to construct distributed consensus protocols. For consensus with a prescribed convergence speed, a multi-step protocol design procedure is given, which yields an unbounded consensus region and maintains a favorable decoupling property.

In recent years, the authors have achieved many creative research results in coordinated control of multi-agent systems, one of the frontier areas in control science. Their paper Z.K. Li, Z.S. Duan, L. Huang, H∞ control of networked multi-agent systems, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 22(1): 35-48, 2009 received the Best Paper Award in Systems Science 2009-2011.