Networked piecewise-affine control systems

网络在我们的世界中无处不在。从编队飞行的候鸟，到社会群体、无线网络、万维网，例子不胜枚举。特别是，控制系统领域，这是本提案的重点，提供了一个重要的潜力，了解，分析，设计和控制网络是自组织和完全自主的。 对于这些多智能体网络，最近的性能和可靠性的要求，导致控制工程师从一个单一的集中式控制器的设计移动到几个本地化的控制器的设计。在该方法中，每个代理具有专用控制器，该专用控制器使用通信网络与来自其他代理的控制器共享信息。具有分散能力的网络控制的主要优点之一是，在一个控制器发生故障的情况下，网络的分散架构为系统提供可靠性，而如果单个集中式控制器发生故障，则会使整个系统处于危险之中。

Networks are pervasive in our world. From migrating birds flying in formation, to social groups, wireless networks, world-wide web, the examples are endless. In particular, the area of control systems, which is the focus of this proposal, offers an important potential to understand, analyze, design and control networks that are self-organizing and fully autonomous. For these multi-agent networks, recent demands on performance and reliability have caused control engineers to move from the design of a single centralized controller to the design of several localized controllers. In this approach, each agent has a dedicated controller that shares information with controllers from other agents using the communication network. One of the main advantages of networked control with decentralized capabilities is that in case of one controller having a fault, the decentralized architecture of the network offers reliability to the system whereas if a single centralized controller fails it will put the entire system into jeopardy.