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Data-Based Optimal Control of Multi-Agent Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Design Approach

Optimization and Control 2019-05-21 v2

Abstract

This paper studies optimal consensus tracking problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. By introducing tracking error dynamics, the optimal tracking problem is reformulated as finding a Nash-equilibrium solution of a multi-player games, which can be done by solving associated coupled Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. A data-based error estimator is designed to obtain the data-based control for the multi-agent systems. Using the quadratic functional to approximate the every agent's value function, we can obtain the optimal cooperative control by input-output (I/O) QQ-learning algorithm with value iteration technique in the least-square sense. The control law solves the optimal consensus problem for multi-agent systems with measured input-output information, and does not rely on the model of multi-agent systems. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.1711.11422,
  title  = {Data-Based Optimal Control of Multi-Agent Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Design Approach},
  author = {Jilie Zhang and Zhanshan Wang and Hongwei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.11422},
  year   = {2019}
}

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