Networked Guidance and Control for Mobile Multi-Agent Systems: A Multi-Terminal (network) Information Theoretic Approach (Renewal)
Abstract
Our results are categorized into two groups: ( Group A was the main focus, and B are preliminary results creating the foundation for future research)A) We discovered new methods to analyze and design optimal distributed estimation systems and decentralized controllers. We have discovered new principles and insights that have contributed to systematic methods for the design of more efficient distributed tracking and decentralized control systems. More recently, we obtained new methods to design and analyze the performance of systems in which the operation of a constitutive component incurs additional costs or is contingent on shared resources or utilization levels that depend on previous actions. Examples include 1) remote estimation (or distributed tracking) systems in which the wireless transmission of data from the sensors to a base station is either costly or is powered by batteries recharged by energy harvesting and 2)Remote sensing in which information is sent from the sensors to a base-station across a shared wireless network in which simultaneous transmissions cause a destructive interference event commonly called 'collision'. Our published articles describe our overarching formulation and progressively more general results on these problems. Our focus is on structural results that can be leveraged to reduce the complexity of the design process significantly.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 16, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1085636
Entities
People
- Nuno C. Martins
Organizations
- University of Maryland