Coalitional Control for Self-Organizing Agents

DOI10.1109/TAC.2018.2792301MaRDI QIDQ4682347zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Filiberto Fele, Ezequiel Debada, J. M. Maestre, Eduardo Fernández Camacho

Publication date 18 September 2018

Published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00802

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of game theory (91A80) Discrete-time control/observation systems (93C55)

Abstract: Coalitional control is concerned with the management of multi-agent systems where cooperation cannot be taken for granted (due to, e.g., market competition, logistics). This paper proposes a model predictive control (MPC) framework aimed at large-scale dynamically-coupled systems whose individual components, possessing a limited model of the system, are controlled independently, pursuing possibly competing objectives. The emergence of cooperating clusters of controllers is contemplated through an autonomous negotiation protocol, based on the characterization as a coalitional game of the benefit derived by a broader feedback and the alignment of the individual objectives. Specific mechanisms for the cooperative benefit redistribution that relax the cognitive requirements of the game are employed to compensate for possible local cost increases due to cooperation. As a result, the structure of the overall MPC feedback can be adapted online to the degree of interaction between different parts of the system, while satisfying the individual interests of the agents. A wide-area control application for the power grid with the objective of minimizing frequency deviations and undesired inter-area power transfers is used as study case.

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• Distributed switched model-based predictive control for distributed large-scale systems with switched topology
• Meso-scale coalitional control in large-scale networks

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