Suboptimal nonlinear feedback control laws for collective dynamics

M Herty, D Kalise - 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present feedback control methodologies for the stabilization of nonlinear collective
dynamics. The proposed controllers circumvent the curse of dimensionality associated to …

Moment-driven predictive control of mean-field collective dynamics

G Albi, M Herty, D Kalise, C Segala - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2022 - SIAM
The synthesis of control laws for interacting agent-based dynamics and their mean-field limit
is studied. A linearization-based approach is used for the computation of suboptimal …

A game theoretic framework for distributed control of multi-agent systems with acyclic communication topologies

D Cappello, T Mylvaganam - 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multi-agent system consisting of heterogeneous agents, described by nonlinear dynamics
and with inter-agent communication characterised by a directed acyclic graph, is considered …

Safe Collective Control under Noisy Inputs and Competing Constraints via Non-Smooth Barrier Functions

C Enwerem, JS Baras - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.03284, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of safely coordinating ensembles of identical autonomous agents
to conduct complex missions with conflicting safety requirements and under noisy control …

Optimal consensus control of the Cucker-Smale model

R Bailo, M Bongini, JA Carrillo, D Kalise - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018 - Elsevier
We study the numerical realisation of optimal consensus control laws for agent-based
models. For a nonlinear multi-agent system of Cucker-Smale type, consensus control is cast …

Computation and Control of Unstable Steady States for Mean Field Multiagent Systems

S Bicego, D Kalise, GA Pavliotis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11725, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study interacting particle systems driven by noise, modeling phenomena such as
opinion dynamics. We are interested in systems that exhibit phase transitions ie non …

A conservation-based distributed control architecture for network consensus with stochastic communication uncertainty

WM Haddad, X Jin, T Rajpurohit - 2018 Annual American …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to advances in embedded computational resources over the last several years, a
considerable research effort has been devoted to the control of networks and control over …

Control of collective dynamics with time-varying weights

B Piccoli, NP Duteil - Recent Advances in Kinetic Equations and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper focuses on a model for opinion dynamics, where the influence weights of agents
evolve in time. We formulate a control problem of consensus type, in which the objective is to …

Cooperative distance-based leader-following formation control using SDRE for multi-agents with energy constraints

R Babazadeh, R Selmic - 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an optimal cooperative control method for a distance-based, leader-following
formation control of multi-agent systems with energy constraints. In order to develop a …

Control of high-dimensional collective dynamics by deep neural feedback laws and kinetic modelling

G Albi, S Bicego, D Kalise - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02825, 2024 - arxiv.org
Modeling and control of agent-based models is twice cursed by the dimensionality of the
problem, as both the number of agents and their state space dimension can be large. Even …