Abstract: 
    A distributed networked system is a web of a large number (possibly millions) of intelligent sensing and 
actuating devices connected via a dedicated communication network. These sensing nodes and actuating nodes may 
be distributed over a vast geographical area. The data collected in the sensor nodes are processed using int-
elligent signal processing algorithms fuse it to build a unified description of a certain phenomenon over the 
whole region of interest, which are then used to construct appropriate control actions for individual actuating
nodes. Due to the large geographical nature of of the system, all thesignal processing and control executions 
are preferred to be done in a distributed fashion. In this talk, we will discuss a number of challenges in 
distributed estimation and control for large networked control systems. These problems include distributed sampl-
ing, distributed source coding, distributed state estimation and distributed control synthesis. We will also 
discuss applications in smart electricity grids, sensor networks, and multi-agent systems.

About speaker：

    Minyue Fu received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei, China, in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in
1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1983 to 1987, he held a teaching assistantship and a research assistantship at the Uin-
iversity of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked as a Computer Engineering Consultant at Nicolet Instruments, Inc., Madison, Wisc-
onsin, during 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. For the summer of 1989, he was employed by the Universite Cathol-
oque de Louvain, Belgium, as a Maitre de Conferences Invited. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engine-
ering, the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1989 and was promoted to a Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering in
2002. He has served as the Head of Department for Electrical and Computer Engineering and Head of School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science over a period of 7 years. In addition, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at University
of Iowa in 1995-1996, a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2002, and Visiting Professor at
Tokyo University in 2003. He has held a ChangJiang Visiting Professorship at Shandong University, a visiting Professorship
at South China University of Technology, and a Qian-ren Professorship at Zhejiang University in China. He was elected to a
Fellow of IEEE in late 2003. His main research interests include control systems, signal processing and communications.
His current research projects include networked control systems, smart electricity networks and super-precision positioning
control systems. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Si-
gnal Processing, Automatica and Journal of Optimization and Engineering.