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A system-theoretic framework for privacy preservation in continuous-time multiagent dynamics
In multiagent dynamical systems, privacy protection corresponds to avoid
disclosing the initial states of the agents while accomplishing a distributed
task. The system-theoretic framework described in this paper for this scope,
denoted dynamical privacy, relies on introducing output maps which act as
masks, rendering the internal states of an agent indiscernible by the other
agents as well as by external agents monitoring all communications. Our output
masks are local (i.e., decided independently by each agent), time-varying
functions asymptotically converging to the true states. The resulting masked
system is also time-varying, and has the original unmasked system as its limit
system. When the unmasked system has a globally exponentially stable
equilibrium point, it is shown in the paper that the masked system has the same
point as a global attractor. It is also shown that existence of equilibrium
points in the masked system is not compatible with dynamical privacy.
Application of dynamical privacy to popular examples of multiagent dynamics,
such as models of social opinions, average consensus and synchronization, is
investigated in detail.Comment: 38 pages, 4 figures, extended version of arXiv preprint
arXiv:1808.0808
On the stability of the Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear oscillators
We provide an analysis of the classic Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear
oscillators that goes beyond the existing results for all-to-all networks of
identical oscillators. Our work is applicable to oscillator networks of
arbitrary interconnection topology with uncertain natural frequencies. Using
tools from spectral graph theory and control theory, we prove that for
couplings above a critical value, the synchronized state is locally
asymptotically stable, resulting in convergence of all phase differences to a
constant value, both in the case of identical natural frequencies as well as
uncertain ones. We further explain the behavior of the system as the number of
oscillators grows to infinity.Comment: 8 Pages. An earlier version appeared in the proceedings of the
American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 200
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