Wei Ren received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Hohai University, China, in 1997, the M.S. degree in mechatronics from Tongji University, China, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 2004. From October 2004 to July 2005, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Since August 2005, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT. He is author of the book Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control (Springer-Verlag, 2008). His research focuses on… cooperative control of multi-vehicle systems, networked cyber-physical systems, and autonomous control of unmanned vehicles. Dr. Ren was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2008. He is currently an Associate Editor for Systems and Control Letters, an Associate Editor on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, and a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control. Yongcan Cao received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2003 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2006. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT. His research interest focuses on cooperative control and information consensus of multiagent systems.
Wei Ren received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Hohai University, China, in 1997, the M.S. degree in mechatronics from Tongji University, China, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 2004. From October 2004 to July 2005, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Since August 2005, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT. He is author of the book Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control (Springer-Verlag, 2008). His research focuses on… cooperative control of multi-vehicle systems, networked cyber-physical systems, and autonomous control of unmanned vehicles. Dr. Ren was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2008. He is currently an Associate Editor for Systems and Control Letters, an Associate Editor on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, and a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control. Yongcan Cao received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2003 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2006. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT. His research interest focuses on cooperative control and information consensus of multiagent systems.