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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):C1 - C4
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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s): C2
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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):553 - 554
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• Common Information Based Markov Perfect Equilibria for Stochastic Games With Asymmetric Information: Finite Games

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):555 - 570
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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A model of stochastic games where multiple controllers jointly control the evolution of the state of a dynamic system but have access to different information about the state and action processes is considered. The asymmetry of information among the controllers makes it difficult to compute or characterize Nash equilibria. Using the common information among the controllers, the game with asymmetri... View full abstract»

• Generalized Efficiency Bounds in Distributed Resource Allocation

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):571 - 584
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Game theory is emerging as a popular tool for distributed control of multiagent systems. To take advantage of these game theoretic tools, the interactions of the autonomous agents must be designed within a game-theoretic environment. A central component of this game-theoretic design is the assignment of a local utility function to each agent. One promising approach to utility design is assigning e... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Projection-Based Observers and ${\rm L}_{1}$ Adaptive Controllers for Infinite-Dimensional Systems With Full-State Measurement

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):585 - 598
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Adaptive observers using projection-operator-based parameter update laws are considered for a class of linear infinite-dimensional systems with bounded input operator and full state measurement and subject to time-varying matched uncertainties and disturbances. The L1 adaptive control architecture, introduced recently for finite-dimensional plants to provide guaranteed transient perform... View full abstract»

• Energy-Aware Scheduling on Heterogeneous Processors

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):599 - 613
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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We study a multiserver system where servers are heterogeneous in terms of both their speeds and their usage (energy) costs. We show that the optimal control policy is threshold type, and can be implemented in a decentralized manner through an individually optimal policy. When there are no arrivals, we also derive explicit expressions for the thresholds. We consider both the case with reassignment,... View full abstract»

• A Differential Lyapunov Framework for Contraction Analysis

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):614 - 628
Cited by:  Papers (52)
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Lyapunov's second theorem is an essential tool for stability analysis of differential equations. The paper provides an analog theorem for incremental stability analysis by lifting the Lyapunov function to the tangent bundle. The Lyapunov function endows the state-space with a Finsler structure. Incremental stability is inferred from infinitesimal contraction of the Finsler metrics through integrat... View full abstract»

• Learning in Mean-Field Games

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):629 - 644
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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The purpose of this paper is to show how insight obtained from a mean-field model can be used to create an architecture for approximate dynamic programming (ADP) for a certain class of games comprising of a large number of agents. The general technique is illustrated with the aid of a mean-field oscillator game model introduced in our prior work. The states of the model are interpreted as the phas... View full abstract»

• Distributed Cardinality Estimation in Anonymous Networks

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):645 - 659
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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We consider estimation of network cardinality by distributed anonymous strategies relying on statistical inference methods. In particular, we focus on the relative Mean Square Error (MSE) of Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimators based on either the maximum or the average of M-dimensional vectors randomly generated at each node. In the case of continuous probability distributions, we show that the rel... View full abstract»

• Time Synchronization in WSNs: A Maximum-Value-Based Consensus Approach

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):660 - 675
Cited by:  Papers (77)
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This paper considers time synchronization in wireless sensor networks. When the communication delay is negligible, the maximum time synchronization (MTS) protocol is proposed by which the skew and offset of each node can be synchronized simultaneously. For a more practical case where the intercommunication delays between each connected node are positive random variables, we propose the weighted ma... View full abstract»

• Online Markov Decision Processes Under Bandit Feedback

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):676 - 691
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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We consider online learning in finite stochastic Markovian environments where in each time step a new reward function is chosen by an oblivious adversary. The goal of the learning agent is to compete with the best stationary policy in hindsight in terms of the total reward received. Specifically, in each time step the agent observes the current state and the reward associated with the last transit... View full abstract»

• On Passivity of a Class of Discrete-Time Switched Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):692 - 702
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This paper analyzes the passivity and feedback passivity of discrete-time-switched nonlinear systems with passive and nonpassive modes that are affine in the control input. When a nonpassive mode is active, the increase in storage function is not necessarily bounded by the energy supplied to the switched system at every time step. Therefore, a switched system with at least one nonpassive mode is d... View full abstract»

• Cyclic Change of Server's Performance: Impacts and Applications

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):703 - 713
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This paper studies a stochastic system where the performance of the server changes stochastically and cyclically. We first investigate the performance measures of the system, including the queue length and the overall cost. In particular, we derive an exact expression for the expected length of the renewal cycle, and present closed matrix forms for the mean and variance of the queue length. We the... View full abstract»

• Stackelberg Routing on Parallel Networks With Horizontal Queues

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):714 - 727
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This paper presents a game theoretic framework for studying Stackelberg routing games on parallel networks with horizontal queues, such as transportation networks. First, we introduce a new class of latency functions that models congestion due to the formation of physical queues. For this new class, some results from the classical congestion games literature (in which latency is assumed to be a no... View full abstract»

• Periodical Solutions in a Pulse-Modulated Model of Endocrine Regulation With Time-Delay

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):728 - 733
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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A hybrid mathematical model of endocrine regulation obtained by augmenting the classical continuous Smith model with a pulse-modulated feedback to describe episodic (pulsatile) secretion is considered. Conditions for existence and local orbital stability of periodical solutions with m impulses in the least period ( m-cycles) are derived. An important implication of the performed analysis is that t... View full abstract»

• Minimum-Time Quantum Transport With Bounded Trap Velocity

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):733 - 738
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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We formulate the problem of efficient transport of a quantum particle trapped in a harmonic potential which can move with a bounded velocity, as a minimum-time problem on a linear system with bounded input. We completely solve the corresponding optimal control problem and obtain an interesting bang-bang solution, where the switching times are obtained from a transcendental equation. These results ... View full abstract»

• Reach Controllability of Single Input Affine Systems on a Simplex

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):738 - 744
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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We study the reach control problem (RCP) for a single input affine system with a simplicial state space. We extend previous results by exploring arbitrary triangulations of the state space; particularly allowing the set of possible equilibria to intersect the interior of simplices. In the studied setting, it is shown that closed-loop equilibria, nevertheless, only arise on the boundary of simplice... View full abstract»

• Upper and Lower Bounds for Controllable Subspaces of Networks of Diffusively Coupled Agents

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):745 - 750
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This technical note studies the controllability of diffusively coupled networks where some agents, called leaders, are under the influence of external control inputs. First, we consider networks where agents have general linear dynamics. Then, we turn our attention to infer network controllability from its underlying graph topology. To do this, we consider networks with agents having single-integr... View full abstract»

• Output Synchronization of Networked Passive Systems With Event-Driven Communication

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):750 - 756
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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In this note, we study the output synchronization problem of networked passive systems with event-driven communication, in which the information exchange among the coupled agents are event-based rather than pre-scheduled periodically. We propose a setup for the interconnected agents to achieve output synchronization with event-driven communication in the presence of constant communication delays. ... View full abstract»

• Finite-Time Consensus in Networks of Integrator-Like Dynamic Agents With Directional Link Failure

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):756 - 762
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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This technical note proposes a general class of nonlinear protocols in the form of continuous state feedbacks for finite-time consensus in networks of integrator-like dynamic agents with directional link failure. These protocols, with adjustable terms, are applicable in a wide range of situations, such as with input saturation restrictions and with convergence rate constraints. Based on the assump... View full abstract»

• Average Consensus in the Presence of Delays in Directed Graph Topologies

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):763 - 768
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Classical distributed algorithms for asymptotic average consensus typically assume timely and reliable exchange of information between neighboring components of a given multi-component system. These assumptions are not necessarily valid in practice due to varying delays that might affect computations at different nodes and/or transmissions at different links. In this work, we propose a protocol th... View full abstract»

• Cooperative Optimal Control for Multi-Agent Systems on Directed Graph Topologies

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):769 - 774
Cited by:  Papers (46)
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This note brings together stability and optimality theory to design distributed cooperative control protocols that guarantee consensus and are globally optimal with respect to a positive semi-definite quadratic performance criterion. A common problem in cooperative optimal control is that global optimization problems generally require global information, which is not available to distributed contr... View full abstract»

• Constrained Consensus in Unbalanced Networks With Communication Delays

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):775 - 781
Cited by:  Papers (42)
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In this note, a constrained consensus problem is studied for multi-agent systems in unbalanced networks in the presence of communication delays. Here each agent needs to lie in a closed convex constraint set while reaching a consensus. The communication graphs are directed, dynamically changing, and not necessarily balanced and only the union of the graphs is assumed to be strongly connected among... View full abstract»

• Distributed Continuous-Time Convex Optimization on Weight-Balanced Digraphs

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):781 - 786
Cited by:  Papers (68)
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This technical note studies the continuous-time distributed optimization of a sum of convex functions over directed graphs. Contrary to what is known in the consensus literature, where the same dynamics works for both undirected and directed scenarios, we show that the consensus-based dynamics that solves the continuous-time distributed optimization problem for undirected graphs fails to converge ... View full abstract»

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University of Notre Dame