Keynote speaker II: Multi-object systems and their applications

A multi-object system is a generalisation of the standard state space system to one with a randomly varying set of states. An example of such a system is the collection of mobile sensors monitoring an unknown and time varying number of targets in a surveillance region. A biological example is a swarm of insects moving about performing a certain set of tasks. Indeed most systems in nature are multi-object systems. Traditionally driven by applications in radar and sonar, today, multi-object system has found applications in many diverse disciplines, including oceanography, autonomous vehicles, and biomedical research. This talk provides an introduction to the theory of multi-object system and describes of some of the recent developments in the filed together with applications.