A mean field game synthesis of initial mean consensus problems: A continuum approach for non-gaussian behavior

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 449-455

  Nourian, Mojtaba ^a,b   Caines, Peter E ^c   Malhame, Roland P ^b,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GERAD   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consensus problems; continuum models; decentralized control; mean field control; Nash equilibria; stochastic optimal control

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GAME THEORY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); POPULATION STATISTICS; STATE FEEDBACK; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; CONTINUUM MODEL; MEAN FIELD; NASH EQUILIBRIA; STOCHASTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893711130     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2013.2270867     Document Type: Article

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