Wenfeng Li

Swarm is a complex system with a population of autonomous individuals. With local interactions of these individuals, their behaviors can be assembled and a kind of “swarm intelligence” can be emerged, which is unknown to the individuals. In nature, swarm intelligence has shown many surprising functions and caused interests and attentions from scientists and researchers. The presentation will mainly focus on the state-of-arts of swarm intelligence and applications. It will briefly introduce both natural and artificial swarms and swarm intelligence, summarize the basic features of individuals and a swarm; models of typical swarm intelligences, such as Boids, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) will be introduced and their recent researches will be presented. Then, from the view of control, the description of a swarm and its individuals will be discussed both mathematically and physically. Several control methods and algorithms will be analyzed. A control way of swarm robots under wireless sensor networks will be discussed in detail and several applications will be explored. Finally, challenges of Swarm Control will be discussed.

Biography: Dr. Wenfeng Li is a senior member of IEEE, a Professor at the School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. He is now a visiting professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from Wuhan University of Technology in 2000, his Master degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990, and his Bachelor degree from Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry. He has contributed to IEEE as a Co‐Chair of the special Session, Cooperated Wireless Sensor networks of IEEE System, Man and Cybernetic (SMC) 2009, 2010, and 2011, a Program Committee Co‐Chair of the International Working Group on Computer supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Design (2012) and a Program Committee Co‐Chair of IEEE International Conference of Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA) 2010 and IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) 2010.
His current research interests include swarm intelligence, IoT and Robotics, modeling and simulation of logistics systems. His email address is: liwf@whut.edu.cn.