报告题目：A data-driven approach to the optimal control of Boolean Control Networks

报告人：Elena Valcher, University of Padova

报告时间：2025年12月5日（周五）17:30

报告地点：zoom会议号：852 5431 8767

报告摘要：Data-driven approaches have recently emerged in the analysis of Boolean control networks (BCNs), with the aim of addressing fundamental control problems—such as state-feedback stabilization, safe control, and output regulation—without requiring an explicit model, provided that a sufficiently informative dataset is available. In this talk we will present a data-based framework for the finite-horizon and infinite-horizon optimal control problems in BCNs. For the finite-horizon problem, the conditions for solvability are relatively mild. In contrast, solving the infinite-horizon problem from data imposes stricter requirements on both the generating BCN and the collected dataset. The proposed analysis builds on the concept of data informativity, which ensures that any proposed solution is feasible for all BCNs consistent with the data. While the resulting controllers may not be optimal for every such BCN, they represent the best performance attainable given the available information.

报告人简介：Elena Valcher (Ph.D. Degree, 1995) is Professor of Control Theory at the University of Padova since 2005. Her current research interests include data-driven methods, distributed estimation, social networks, Boolean control networks, multi-agent systems and consensus problems. She is the author of approximately 100 journal papers, 18 book chapters, 120 conference papers and 3 textbooks. She has been an active volunteer since 1999, serving in various roles for IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE, IFAC and EUCA. She was IEEE CSS President in 2015, she is currently EUCA President (2024-2025). She was a member of the IFAC Technical Board (2017-2023) and she is the Chair of the 2026 IFAC Major Awards Search Committee. She was the Founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE Control Systems Letters (2017-2024) and co-Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control since 2023. She was Program Chair of the 2012 IEEE CDC, and co-General Chair of the 2022 IEEE CDC. She is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE CSS Distinguished Member and an IFAC Fellow.

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