Dear IEEE members and guests, The next IEEE Control, Aerospace and Electronic Systems (CAES) seminar will be on Monday, 14th June, 2021 at 7:30 pm (Adelaide time). The speaker is Prof Peng Shi, Professor in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Adelaide, he will be presenting a seminar on: Formation Control for Multi-agent Systems: Introduction, Analysis and Design Please aim to join the WebEx meeting beforehand, so we can start on time. https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7ef45d807bc6d4f49922e32df26fb92a Event number (access code): 130 221 9303 Also, please check out the new IEEE SA Section website: https://r10.ieee.org/saus/ Regards Kutluyil Dogancay IEEE SA CAES Chapter Secretary Formation Control for Multi-agent Systems: Introduction, Analysis and Design Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are systems with characteristics of cooperation and decentralization. As the agents often work under complex circumstances, limitations of the hardware that include limited passive sensing and active communication capabilities are likely to be present. As a result of the localization conditions above, the agents need to cooperate in a distributed manner to achieve a common goal. Formation control, which is one of the most popular topics within the realm of multi-agent systems, generally aims to drive multiple agents to achieve a desired scalable formation or time-varying formation changing. In this talk, depending on the agents’ sensing and interaction capabilities, the analysis and design of a variety of distributed formation control and some applications are introduced. Under complex circumstances, issues on collision avoidance and system robustness for MAS are also addressed. Simulation and Lab experimental results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of some design schemes proposed in our group. Speaker(s): Prof. Peng Shi, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/272834