Synchronization of coupled oscillators is a game

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 920-935

  Yin, Huibing ^a   Mehta, Prashant G ^a   Meyn, Sean P ^b   Shanbhag, Uday V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean field game; Nash equilibrium; nonlinear systems; phase transition; stochastic control; synchronization

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION ANALYSIS; CONTROL COSTS; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; CRITICAL VALUE; DYNAMIC GAME; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; LARGE POPULATION; LINEAR QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN; MEAN-FIELD; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PDE MODEL; PHASE ANGLES; POPULATION SIZES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODELS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84859709769     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2168082     Document Type: Article

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