Explicit Agent-Level Optimal Cooperative Controllers for Dynamically Decoupled Systems with Output Feedback

Abstract: We consider a dynamically decoupled network of agents each with a local output-feedback controller. We assume each agent is a node in a directed acyclic graph and the controllers share information along the edges in order to cooperatively optimize a global objective. We develop explicit state-space formulations for the jointly optimal networked controllers that highlight the role of the graph structure. Specifically, we provide generically minimal agent-level implementations of the local controllers along with intuitive interpretations of their states and the information that should be transmitted between controllers.