A study of supervisory constraints in a class of coordinated multiagent systems

We present a class of supervisory multiagent sys- tems in which each agent is based on an enhanced form of the intelligent agent paradigm called the Hybrid Intelligent Control Agent (HICA). A bound on supervisory input event rates neces- sary to preserve multiagent stability is obtained and studied in a pursuit-evasion simulation involving multiple autonomous un- manned vehicles.

[1]  Diana F. Spears,et al.  Adaptive Supervisory Control of Multi-agent Systems , 2000, FAABS.

[2]  K. Inan.  Asynchronous dynamical systems , 1989, Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,.

[3]  Panos J. Antsaklis,et al.  Lyapunov stability of a class of discrete event systems , 1994, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control..

[4]  Nicholas R. Jennings,et al.  A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development , 2004, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

[5]  Kingsley Fregene,et al.  HICA: A Framework for Distributed Multiagent Control , 2001 .

[6]  Stephen P. Boyd,et al.  Control of asynchronous dynamical systems with rate constraints on events , 1999, Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.99CH36304).

[7]  A. Michel,et al.  Lyapunov Stability of a Class of Discrete Event Systems , 1991 .

[8]  K. Kiriakidis,et al.  Adaptive supervisory control of interconnected discrete event systems , 2000, Proceedings of the 2000. IEEE International Conference on Control Applications. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37162).

[9]  K. Fregene,et al.  On the stability of coordinated multiagent systems with degraded communication , 2003, Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, 2003..

[10]  John Lygeros,et al.  Verified hybrid controllers for automated vehicles , 1998, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control..

[11]  M. Branicky.  Multiple Lyapunov functions and other analysis tools for switched and hybrid systems , 1998, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control..