Efficient Control for Cooperation: Communication, Learning and Robustness in Multi-Agent Systems

Besides facing the same challenges as single-agent systems, the distributed nature of complex multi-agent systems sparks many questions and problems revolving around the constraints imposed by communication. The idea that multi-agent systems require communication to access information, to coordinate or simply to sense the environment they are...

Timing is everything: Analysis and synthesis of traffic patterns in event-triggered control

Event-triggered control (ETC) and self-triggered control (STC) are sample-and-hold control paradigms in which sensor data is only updated to the controller when necessary, often aperiodically, in contrast to the well-established periodic sampling paradigm. In ETC, a state-dependent event triggers a transmission, while in STC the controller...

Grasping the Sampling Behaviour of Event-Triggered Control: Self-Triggered Control, Abstractions and Formal Analysis

A fundamental challenge in networked control systems is reducing the amount of communications of each system in the network, so that bandwidth and energy are used efficiently. To address the challenge, the research community has shifted its focus to Event-Triggered Control (ETC), in which communication between the control system's different...