Control of Multiagent Systems with Local and Global Objectives
Selahattin Burak Sarsılmaz, Tansel Yucelen · 2018
With the system-theoretic advancements in distributed control of multiagent systems, groups of agents are already able to utilize local interactions for achieving a broad class of prescribed global objectives. On the other hand, several agents forming the multiagent system are still expected to perform their own local objectives while they simultaneously achieve a given global objective. Yet, we currently do not have distributed control methods with analytic foundations that offer an effective remedy to this problem. Motivated from this standpoint, the contribution of this note is to present several distributed control solutions with comparable advantages. We provide system-theoretic stability analyses for each proposed method, where all these methods allow a subset of agents to perform their local objectives without deteriorating the overall multiagent system's global objective.