CPS: Small: Fundamental Limitations for Classes of Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems

CPS：小型：协作多智能体系统类别的基本限制

• 批准号: 1035271
• 负责人: James Freudenberg
• 金额: $ 48.14万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1035271&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPS; Small; Fundamental; Limitations; Classes

The objective of this research is to study such properties of classes of cooperative multi-agent systems as stability, performance, and robustness. Multi-agent systems such as vehicle platoons and coupled oscillators can display emergent behavior that is difficult to predict from the behavior of individual subsystems. The approach is to develop and extend the theory of fundamental design limitations to cover multi-agent systems that communicate over both physical and virtual communication links. The theory will further describe known phenomena, such as string instability, and extend the analysis to other systems, such as harmonic oscillators. The theory will be tested and validated in the Michigan Embedded Control Systems Laboratory. The intellectual merit of the proposed research will be the development of tools that delineate tradeoffs between performance and feedback properties for control systems involving mixes of human and computer agents and classes of hardware dynamics, controllers, and network topology. The contribution to system behavior of each agent?s realization in hardware (constrained by Newton's laws) and realization in software and communications (subject to the constraints discovered by Shannon and Bode) will be assessed. The broader impacts of the proposed research will be a significant impact on teaching, both at the University of Michigan and at ETH Zurich. At each school, popular teaching laboratories allow over 100 students per year, from diverse backgrounds, to learn concepts from the field of embedded networked distributed control systems. New families of haptic devices will enable the research to be transferred into these teaching laboratories.

本研究的目的是研究合作多智能体系统的稳定性，性能和鲁棒性等性质。多智能体系统，如车辆排和耦合振荡器可以显示紧急的行为是很难预测的单个子系统的行为。该方法是开发和扩展的基本设计限制的理论，以涵盖多代理系统，通过物理和虚拟通信链路进行通信。该理论将进一步描述已知的现象，如弦不稳定性，并将分析扩展到其他系统，如谐振子。该理论将在密歇根嵌入式控制系统实验室进行测试和验证。所提出的研究的智力价值将是开发工具，描绘控制系统的性能和反馈特性之间的权衡，涉及混合的人类和计算机代理和类的硬件动态，控制器和网络拓扑结构。每个代理对系统行为的贡献？的实现在硬件（牛顿定律的约束）和实现在软件和通信（受香农和波德发现的约束）将进行评估。 拟议研究的更广泛影响将对密歇根大学和苏黎世联邦理工学院的教学产生重大影响。在每所学校，受欢迎的教学实验室每年允许来自不同背景的100多名学生学习嵌入式网络分布式控制系统领域的概念。新的触觉设备系列将使研究能够转移到这些教学实验室。