Distributed Cooperative Intelligence in Microgrid Control

Jingang Lai (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2016. In 2015, he was a Joint Ph.D. Student with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, where he was a Research Fellow and an Honorary Principal Research Fellow with the School of Engineering. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow and a Guest Professor with the E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He is currently a full Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include brain-inspired intelligence and swarm intelligence for microgrids, distributed renewable energy systems, and cyber-physical-social systems. Xiaoqing Lu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2012. From 2015 to 2019, she was a Research Fellow with the School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. She is currently a full Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University. Her research interests include distributed control, monitoring, and security in cyber-physical systems; and cooperation and optimization in smart microgrids and multi-robot systems.