Internal-Model Distributed Control Design for Complex Networks of Dynamic Agents

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870169
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Mathematical informatics; Control engineering/System engineering
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: CAI KAI 大阪市立大学, 都市研究プラザ, 特任准教授 (20728266)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: Distributed control / Control over networks / Networks of agents / Complex networks / Internal model principle

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Networks of dynamic agents play a fundamental role in many natural and engineered systems: for instance, gene regulatory networks, neuron networks, electrical power grids, sensor networks, and the Internet. In this research, we first designed two specific algorithms that enable networks of agents to perform local estimation and distributed optimization, and then proposed two general methodologies effective in controlling networks of heterogeneous agents and varieties of cooperative tasks. Moreover, we built an experiment platform of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles for testing the derived theoretical results.

Free Research Field

制御・システム工学