Cooperative Tracking Control and Regulation for a Class of Multi-agent Systems

Hongjing Liang received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Bohai University, Jinzhou, China, in 2009, his M.S. degree in fundamental mathematics from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2011, and a Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2016. He is currently working at Bohai University. His research interests include multi-agent systems, complex systems, and output regulation.Huaguang Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in control engineering from Northeastern Electric Power University, Jilin, China, 1982 and 1985, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in thermal power engineering and automation from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1991. Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Automatic Control, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1992, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 1994, he has been a professor and the head of the Electric Automation Institute, Northeastern University. He has authored three English monographs and holds 30 patents. His main research interests are neural network-based control, fuzzy control, chaos control, nonlinear control, signal processing, adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) and their industrial applications. Dr. Zhang was a recipient of the Nationwide Excellent Post-Doctor, the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation Award from the National Natural Science Foundation Committee of China in 2003, the Cheung Kong Scholar Award from the Education Ministry of China in 2005, and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award in 2012. He was an Associate Editor of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and Neurocomputing. He is the Deputy Director of the Intelligent System Engineering Committee of Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence.