Multi-Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications

✍ Scribed by R Tyrrell Rockafellar

• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Springer, CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Series: Computational Analysis, Synthesis, & Design Dynamic Systems
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems extends optimal control and adaptive control design methods to multi-agent systems on communication graphs. It develops Riccati design techniques for general linear dynamics for cooperative state feedback design, cooperative observer design, and cooperative dynamic output feedback design. Both continuous-time and discrete-time dynamical multi-agent systems are treated. Optimal cooperative control is introduced and neural adaptive design techniques for multi-agent nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics, which are rarely treated in literature are developed. Results spanning systems with first-, second- and on up to general high-order nonlinear dynamics are presented.

Each control methodology proposed is developed by rigorous proofs. All algorithms are justified by simulation examples. The text is self-contained and will serve as an excellent comprehensive source of information for researchers and graduate students working with multi-agent systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: pt. I. Basic concepts --
pt. II. Topological properties --
pt. III. Duality correspondences --
pt. IV. Representation and inequalities --
pt. V. Differential theory --
pt. VI. Constrained extremum problems --
pt. VII. Saddle-functions and minimax theory --
pt. VIII. Convex algebra.