Limited benefit of joint estimation in multi-agent iterative learning

Asian Journal of Control

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 613-623

  Schoellig, Angela P ^a   Alonso Mora, Javier ^a   D'Andrea, Raffaello ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

estimation; information exchange; iterative learning control; Kalman filter; Multi agent learning

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DISTURBANCE ESTIMATES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; ITERATIVE LEARNING; ITERATIVE LEARNING CONTROL; JOINT ESTIMATION; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MULTI-AGENT LEARNING; MULTIAGENT FRAMEWORK;

TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861398753     PISSN: 15618625     EISSN: 19346093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asjc.398     Document Type: Article

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