Jonas Hansson successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Scalable Control Design for Networked Systems: Coordination Through Local Cooperation” on June 5th. Fernando Paganini acted as the faculty opponent and led an interesting discussion on Jonas’s work. Jonas has, among other things, proposed a novel consensus protocol with provably superior stability and transient performance properties, even in large networks. Using this protocol, which typically requires communication in a one-hop neighborhood, the problems of string stability and scale fragility in directed vehicle formations are solved.
His thesis is available here: https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/218086759/PhDThesisHansson2025.pdf
Emma Tegling 