Title
Distributed Game Strategy Design With Application To Multi-Agent Formation Control
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a multi-agent formation control problem from a game theory point of view. It is well known that a major difficulty in a communication network based formation control problem is that each agent is only able to exchange information with other agents according to the communication topology. This information constraint prevents many game strategy design approaches that require individual agents to have global information from being implemented in many cases. We formulate the formation control problem in such a way that individual agents try to minimize their locally measured formation errors and to solve it as a differential game problem. We consider two cases of non-cooperative and cooperative games and propose a novel distributed design approach that utilizes the relationship between the initial and terminal state variables. This approach is applied to an illustrative formation control example among three agents and the formation errors under various scenarios are compared and analyzed.
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Publication Title
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume
2015-February
Issue
February
Number of Pages
433-438
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2014.7039419
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84988298072 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84988298072
STARS Citation
Lin, Wei; Qu, Zhihua; and Simaan, Marwan A., "Distributed Game Strategy Design With Application To Multi-Agent Formation Control" (2014). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 8909.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/8909