Distributed control of multi-agent systems with random parameters and a major agent

Automatica

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2093-2106

  Wang, Bing Chang ^a   Zhang, Ji Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Markov jump parameter; Mean field theory; Multi agent system; Optimal tracking control

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL LAW; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; INDEX FUNCTIONS; INDEX VALUES; INITIAL STATE; LIMIT THEORY; MARKOV JUMP PARAMETER; MEAN FIELD; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL TRACKING CONTROL; PERFORMANCE INDICES; RANDOM PARAMETERS; UNIFORM STABILITY; UPPER BOUND;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MEAN FIELD THEORY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864981895     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2012.06.050     Document Type: Article

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