... by relying on local information is very challenging. Although centralized methods are generally efficient or optimal, they face the issue of scalability and are often impractical. Given the challenge of finding an efficient decentralized controller that uses only local information to accomplish a global task...

...Carlos Villegas; Martin Corless; Wynita Griggs; Robert Shorten A basic problem in the design of control systems is the lack of simple effective methods for designing decentralized control systems that are robust with respect to certain types of structural uncertainties. Here, we present one...

... during a different time period). Hierarchy by abstraction: Agent 5’s actuation temporarily failed and recovered As shown in Sec. 5 , under the decentralized control, the formation and maneuver are not decoupled from each other any more. This simulation is to show the effect...

... or (ii) systems possessing minimum phase “block” transmission zeros. Accordingly, two types of decentralized controllers are applied to achieve reliable control for these two categories of systems. Simulation examples are also included to illustrate the properties of the reliable control system. 24...

.... The article includes the derivation of optimal integral controllers for general linear descriptor systems and a detailed study on decentralized control for thermal networks. Feasibility of decentralized control is established via two theorems regarding stability and decentralized integral controllability...