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Multiplex PI-Control for Consensus in Networks of Heterogeneous Linear Agents
In this paper, we propose a multiplex proportional-integral approach, for
solving consensus problems in networks of heterogeneous nodes dynamics affected
by constant disturbances. The proportional and integral actions are deployed on
two different layers across the network, each with its own topology. Sufficient
conditions for convergence are derived that depend upon the structure of the
network, the parameters characterizing the control layers and the node
dynamics. The effectiveness of the theoretical results is illustrated using a
power network model as a representative example.Comment: 13 pages, 6 Figures, Preprint submitted to Automatic
Resilient Autonomous Control of Distributed Multi-agent Systems in Contested Environments
An autonomous and resilient controller is proposed for leader-follower
multi-agent systems under uncertainties and cyber-physical attacks. The leader
is assumed non-autonomous with a nonzero control input, which allows changing
the team behavior or mission in response to environmental changes. A resilient
learning-based control protocol is presented to find optimal solutions to the
synchronization problem in the presence of attacks and system dynamic
uncertainties. An observer-based distributed H_infinity controller is first
designed to prevent propagating the effects of attacks on sensors and actuators
throughout the network, as well as to attenuate the effect of these attacks on
the compromised agent itself. Non-homogeneous game algebraic Riccati equations
are derived to solve the H_infinity optimal synchronization problem and
off-policy reinforcement learning is utilized to learn their solution without
requiring any knowledge of the agent's dynamics. A trust-confidence based
distributed control protocol is then proposed to mitigate attacks that hijack
the entire node and attacks on communication links. A confidence value is
defined for each agent based solely on its local evidence. The proposed
resilient reinforcement learning algorithm employs the confidence value of each
agent to indicate the trustworthiness of its own information and broadcast it
to its neighbors to put weights on the data they receive from it during and
after learning. If the confidence value of an agent is low, it employs a trust
mechanism to identify compromised agents and remove the data it receives from
them from the learning process. Simulation results are provided to show the
effectiveness of the proposed approach
H2 suboptimal containment control of homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-agent systems
This paper deals with the H2 suboptimal state containment control problem for
homogeneous linear multi-agent systems and the H2 suboptimal output containment
control problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. For both
problems, given multiple autonomous leaders and a number of followers, we
introduce suitable performance outputs and an associated H2 cost functional,
respectively. The aim is to design a distributed protocol by dynamic output
feedback that achieves state/output containment control while the associated H2
cost is smaller than an a priori given upper bound. To this end, we first show
that the H2 suboptimal state/output containment control problem can be
equivalently transformed into H2 suboptimal control problems for a set of
independent systems. Based on this, design methods are then provided to compute
such distributed dynamic output feedback protocols. Simulation examples are
provided to illustrate the performance of our proposed protocols.Comment: 15 papges, 7 figure
Transmission Rank Selection for Opportunistic Beamforming with Quality of Service Constraints
In this paper, we consider a multi-cell multi-user MISO broadcast channel.
The system operates according to the opportunistic beamforming framework in a
multi-cell environment with variable number of transmit beams (may
alternatively be referred as the transmission rank) at each base station. The
maximum number of co-scheduled users in a cell is equal to its transmission
rank, thus increasing it will have the effect of increasing the multiplexing
gain. However, this will simultaneously increase the amount of interference in
the network, which will decrease the rate of communication. This paper focuses
on optimally setting the transmission rank at each base station such that a set
of Quality of Service (QoS) constraints, that will ensure a guaranteed minimum
rate per beam at each base station, is not violated. Expressions representing
the achievable region of transmission ranks are obtained considering different
network settings. The achievable transmission rank region consists of all
achievable transmission rank tuples that satisfy the QoS constraints. Numerical
results are also presented to provide further insights on the feasibility
problem.Comment: To appear in IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney, Australi
Synchronization of Nonlinear Circuits in Dynamic Electrical Networks with General Topologies
Sufficient conditions are derived for global asymptotic synchronization in a
system of identical nonlinear electrical circuits coupled through linear
time-invariant (LTI) electrical networks. In particular, the conditions we
derive apply to settings where: i) the nonlinear circuits are composed of a
parallel combination of passive LTI circuit elements and a nonlinear
voltage-dependent current source with finite gain; and ii) a collection of
these circuits are coupled through either uniform or homogeneous LTI electrical
networks. Uniform electrical networks have identical per-unit-length
impedances. Homogeneous electrical networks are characterized by having the
same effective impedance between any two terminals with the others open
circuited. Synchronization in these networks is guaranteed by ensuring the
stability of an equivalent coordinate-transformed differential system that
emphasizes signal differences. The applicability of the synchronization
conditions to this broad class of networks follows from leveraging recent
results on structural and spectral properties of Kron reduction---a
model-reduction procedure that isolates the interactions of the nonlinear
circuits in the network. The validity of the analytical results is demonstrated
with simulations in networks of coupled Chua's circuits
Stochastic Leader-Following for Heterogeneous Linear Agents with Communication Delays
We study the leader-following problem for linear stochastic multi-agent systems with uniform and constant communication delays on directed or undirected graphs. We consider both the state feedback and output feedback solutions. In the latter case, the agents can be a set of heterogeneous linear systems. By resorting to a new approach based on the scalar Lambert equation we obtain a constructive design with less conservative closed-form delay bounds. In particular, it is possible to compensate arbitrarily large delays if the agents are not unstable
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