12月9日，应学院邀请，IEEE Fellow英国拉夫堡大学陈文华教授通过腾讯会议线上平台为公司师生作了题为“Stability of Model Predictive Control: a Review of 30 Years Journey”的学术报告。报告由公司副经理赵志良教授主持，吴保卫教授，王月娥副教授，陈森博士，魏宏智博士，董文慧博士，周伟柯博士等青年教师，相关专业研究生以及公司部分高年级本科生参加了此次报告并与陈教授进行了互动交流。

报告中，陈文华教授回顾了模型预测控制（MPC）稳定性理论发展的30年历程，阐释了最优性和稳定性的关系，提出了新的稳定性分析方法与理论结果。相较于传统的理论结果，该分析方法无需对优化指标设计具有保守性的权重终止项，提供了一种新的闭环稳定性分析方法，揭示了MPC最优性达成即意味着闭环系统稳定的性质。

陈教授在分享上述研究成果的同时，还分享了他坚持不懈历经近20余年求解该问题的心路历程。陈教授的精彩报告与勇于挑战科学的科研精神赢得阵阵掌声，报告在热烈的讨论中落下帷幕。

讲座人简介：

Dr Wen-Hua Chen holds Professor in Autonomous Vehicles in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. Prof. Chen has a considerable experience in control, signal processing and artificial intelligence and their applications in aerospace, automotive and agriculture systems. In the last 15 years, he has been working on the development and application of unmanned aircraft system and intelligent vehicle technologies, spanning autopilots, situational awareness, decision making, verification, remote sensing for precision agriculture and environment monitoring. His unmanned vehicles related research is widely supported by the UK government and industry. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of IEEE, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK. Recently Prof Chen was awarded the prestigious EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) Established Career Fellowship in developing control theory for next generation of control systems to enable high level of automation such as robotics and autonomous systems.