Title:
Behavior-based model predictive control for networked multi-agent systems

dc.contributor.advisor Egerstedt, Magnus B.
dc.contributor.author Droge, Greg Nathanael
dc.contributor.committeeMember Shamma, Jeff
dc.contributor.committeeMember Taylor, David
dc.contributor.committeeMember Wardi, Yorai
dc.contributor.committeeMember Kemp, Charles
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-22T15:30:21Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-22T15:30:21Z
dc.date.created 2014-05
dc.date.issued 2014-04-01
dc.date.submitted May 2014
dc.date.updated 2014-05-22T15:30:21Z
dc.description.abstract We present a motion control framework which allows a group of robots to work together to decide upon their motions by minimizing a collective cost without any central computing component or any one agent performing a large portion of the computation. When developing distributed control algorithms, care must be taken to respect the limited computational capacity of each agent as well as respect the information and communication constraints of the network. To address these issues, we develop a distributed, behavior-based model predictive control (MPC) framework which alleviates the computational difficulties present in many distributed MPC frameworks, while respecting the communication and information constraints of the network. In developing the multi-agent control framework, we make three contributions. First, we develop a distributed optimization technique which respects the dynamic communication restraints of the network, converges to a collective minimum of the cost, and has transients suitable for robot motion control. Second, we develop a behavior-based MPC framework to control the motion of a single-agent and apply the framework to robot navigation. The third contribution is to combine the concepts of distributed optimization and behavior-based MPC to develop the mentioned multi-agent behavior-based MPC algorithm suitable for multi-robot motion control.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51864
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Model predictive control
dc.subject Distributed optimization
dc.subject Networked-control
dc.subject Multi-agent control
dc.subject.lcsh Automatic control
dc.subject.lcsh Predictive control
dc.subject.lcsh Multiagent systems
dc.subject.lcsh Algorithms
dc.title Behavior-based model predictive control for networked multi-agent systems
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Egerstedt, Magnus B.
local.contributor.author Egerstedt, Magnus B.
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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