Multiagent Task Coordination Using a Distributed Optimization Approach

Abstract

In this project, several fundamental research topics have been carried out for developing multiagent task coordination strategies under a distributed optimization framework. The proposed subjects are critical to the development of engineered multiagent systems such as robotic networks, sensor networks, and computer networks, and they are import ant to both military and civilian applications. The objectives of the proposed research are three - folds: perform systematic controllability analysis for multiagent networks which may have nonlinear dynamics, design distributed optimal and adaptive coordination protocols in the presence of various model and communication uncertainties, and conduct computer simulation and experimental validation of the proposed designs using mobile robotic platforms. The project renders novel methods for discontinuous cooperative control under least restrictive sensing/communications and communication delays, approximate dynamic programming based optimal cooperative control, adaptive cooperative control of uncertain multiagent systems, and distributed formation control and coverage controls of multiple mobile robots with kinematic constraints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA622435

Entities

People

  • Jing Wang
  • Morrison Obeng
  • Thomas Yang

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cooperative Control
  • Differential Equations
  • Information Systems
  • Linear Systems
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Network Topology
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control