On March 24, 2023, the 7th Youth Forum on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control was held in a combination of online and offline. The forum was sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Command and Control, and jointly hosted by the CICC Supporting Committee on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering of Beihang University, AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, etc. By inviting scholars to give presentations, in-depth exchanges and discussions on hot topics related to swarm intelligence and cooperative control were carried out.

The opening ceremony was presided over by Professor Dong Xiwang, Deputy Dean of Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Beihang University, Deputy Secretary General of CICC, and Deputy Chief Engineer in Artificial Intelligence of AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute. Dong, on behalf of the sponsor and organizers, welcomed all experts, scholars and delegates and expressed his gratitude for their unwavering support. Relevant seminars were in turn anchored by Associate Professor Hua Yongzhao, Associate Professor Sun Chao, Lecturer Li Xiaoduo, and Associate Professor Liu Yishi. Seven scholars, including Professor Ning Xiaolin of Beihang University, Professor Wang Dong of Dalian University of Technology, Associate Professor Meng Ziyang of Tsinghua University, Professor Han Honggui of Beijing University of Technology, Professor Tang Yang of East China University of Science and Technology, and Professor Yu Wenwu of Southeast University, delivered invited presentations respectively.

The invited presentations encompassed theories and technologies of autonomous navigation and positioning required for autonomous unmanned systems and cooperative systems when performing tasks in complex open environments, multi-source information fusion, optimization of distributed decision-making, intelligent cooperative control, and cooperative game and confrontation. The latest academic progress and engineering application prospects of relevant fields were thoroughly demonstrated. Some 60 participants attended the offline forum, while over 4,000 audiences watched the live broadcast online through CICC’s WeChat Channels and Tencent Meeting.

Reported by Dong Xiwang

Reviewed by Jin Rong

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Zhang Anqi