Distributed intelligent control theory of hybrid systems

We discuss advances in multiple-agent, distributed control of interactive processes. Our multiple agent hybrid control architecture approach is a new technology with broad applicability since it integrates the application of logic (set-based) and continuous-time models of complex system behavior. The Kohn-Nerode approach (1992, 1993) for integration of hybrid systems emphasizes online synthesis of automata which will meet current constraints. A key feature of the approach is that the evolution of the behavior trajectory of the automata (e.g. the behavior trajectory of agent i) is continuous in the carrier manifold. We provide an example of our results by discussing the case of multiple agents involved in the engagement of multiple targets, the agent behavior is continuous with respect to the multiple engagement process models whose potentials determine the portion of time the process is active in a time interval.<>