Title :
Coordinated Control with Distributed Observations
Author :
Walrand, J. ; Varaiya, P.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
Abstract :
A model for coordinated control with distributed observations is proposed. M observers answer the questions of one coordinator about their observations of a Markov process. The optimization problem is to dynamically select the optimal questions so as to maximize some performance function.
Keywords :
Control systems; Database systems; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Information theory; Laboratories; Markov processes; Optimal control; Random variables; Sensor systems;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 1983
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
