3. School of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A.;4. Decision and Control Sciences Group, Electronic Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
Abstract:
The decentralized stochastic control of a linear dynamic system consisting of several subsystems is considered. A two-level approach is used by the introduction of a coordinator who collects measurements from the local controllers periodically and in return transmits coordinating parameters. Two types of coordination are considered: open-loop feedback and closed loop. The resulting control laws are found to be intuitively attractive.