The Stability Analysis of the Coordinated Hybrid Agent Framework

Author

Li, Howard ; Karray, Fakhri ; Basir, Otman ; Song, Insop

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont.

fYear

2005

fDate

27-29 June 2005

Firstpage

429

Lastpage

434

Abstract

The coordinated hybrid agent (CHA) framework for the control of multi-agent systems (MASs) has been used to model both the homogeneous and the heterogeneous multi-agent systems. In this framework, the control of the MASs is regarded as a decentralized control and coordination of agents. The CHA framework is able to implement coordination tasks for multi-agent systems. In this study, the stability of MASs modelled by the CHA framework is studied. Because each CHA can be regarded as a discrete event system (DES), we define the stability of CHA systems in the sense of Lyapunov as a logical DES. The necessary and sufficient conditions for CHA systems are presented

Keywords

Lyapunov methods; decentralised control; discrete event systems; multi-agent systems; stability; Lyapunov method; coordinated hybrid agent framework; coordination tasks; decentralized control; discrete event system; multi-agent system; stability analysis; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Design engineering; Discrete event systems; Distributed control; Intelligent control; Multiagent systems; Process control; Stability analysis; Weight control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on, Mediterrean Conference on Control and Automation

Conference_Location

Limassol

ISSN

2158-9860

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8936-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2005.1467053

Filename

1467053