Communication Design for Coordinated Control with a Non-Standard Information Structure

Feasible suboptimal communication designs for prediction are studied with a non-classical information structure in the coordinated vehicle formation control context. Recasting the prediction design and bandwidth assignment problems as a single Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) problem is the main consideration of this paper. The non-classical information structure arises because of the limited ability to get information from neighbouring vehicles. A simple example is given and several interesting design issues are then discussed.