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Landscape and flux for quantifying global stability and dynamics of game theory
Game theory has been widely applied to many areas including economics,
biology and social sciences. However, it is still challenging to quantify the
global stability and global dynamics of the game theory. We developed a
landscape and flux framework to quantify the global stability and global
dynamics of the game theory. As an example, we investigated the models of
three-strategy games: a special replicator-mutator game, the repeated prison
dilemma model. In this model, one stable state, two stable states and limit
cycle can emerge under different parameters. The repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
system has Hopf bifurcation transitions from one stable state to limit cycle
state, and then to another one stable state or two stable states, or vice
versa. We explored the global stability of the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
system and the kinetic paths between the basins of attractor. The paths are
irreversible due to the non-zero flux. One can explain the game for and
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Controlling chaos in the quantum regime using adaptive measurements
The continuous monitoring of a quantum system strongly influences the
emergence of chaotic dynamics near the transition from the quantum regime to
the classical regime. Here we present a feedback control scheme that uses
adaptive measurement techniques to control the degree of chaos in the
driven-damped quantum Duffing oscillator. This control relies purely on the
measurement backaction on the system, making it a uniquely quantum control, and
is only possible due to the sensitivity of chaos to measurement. We quantify
the effectiveness of our control by numerically computing the quantum Lyapunov
exponent over a wide range of parameters. We demonstrate that adaptive
measurement techniques can control the onset of chaos in the system, pushing
the quantum-classical boundary further into the quantum regime
Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical Systems
Safety critical systems involve the tight coupling between potentially
conflicting control objectives and safety constraints. As a means of creating a
formal framework for controlling systems of this form, and with a view toward
automotive applications, this paper develops a methodology that allows safety
conditions -- expressed as control barrier functions -- to be unified with
performance objectives -- expressed as control Lyapunov functions -- in the
context of real-time optimization-based controllers. Safety conditions are
specified in terms of forward invariance of a set, and are verified via two
novel generalizations of barrier functions; in each case, the existence of a
barrier function satisfying Lyapunov-like conditions implies forward invariance
of the set, and the relationship between these two classes of barrier functions
is characterized. In addition, each of these formulations yields a notion of
control barrier function (CBF), providing inequality constraints in the control
input that, when satisfied, again imply forward invariance of the set. Through
these constructions, CBFs can naturally be unified with control Lyapunov
functions (CLFs) in the context of a quadratic program (QP); this allows for
the achievement of control objectives (represented by CLFs) subject to
conditions on the admissible states of the system (represented by CBFs). The
mediation of safety and performance through a QP is demonstrated on adaptive
cruise control and lane keeping, two automotive control problems that present
both safety and performance considerations coupled with actuator bounds
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