IEEE Paper, 18 Apr 05

Agenda

• Discuss papers we came up with last time
• Add new papers to the list that we think we should read
  • Include papers from ACC 2005
• Discuss common themes
• Set agenda for next meeting

Discussion of papers

Viscek This is the paper that Ali cites and so everyone cites it. In the physics community, this is cited correctly. In controls, this paper is often credited with things that aren't really in the paper. Deals with alignment in flocking behavior. Position of agenda matters (who are your neighbors). Uses a completely nonlinear protocol as his alignment rule. Agents move with velocity v in the plane. Looks at effects of change in density and change in noise. Some further work on crowd control (published in Nature) using similar tools (purely computational).	Takeaways for our paper Early example of a protocol Focused on alignment (common problem)	Related papers Jadbabaie Blondel et al (incorrect citation?)
Tabuada Currently at Notre Dame. Alex cited this in this thesis. Was done in the context of nonholonomic vehicle. What graphs would you set up to enable meaningful controls. Started with acyclic graphs. Paper was never accepted into a journal.	Takeaways for our paper Might not cite this; Action (Demetri): look for follow up work (if any). If we can't find something more recent that is significant, probably won't include Effects of dynamics (especially nonlinear)	Related papers Naomi Leonard Action (Richard): look for other papers on this topic
Fax Would be nice to see more work in the area of performance and observer structure. Various follow-on results have not yet been followed up. Getting information from different sources (potentially at different times). Action (Alex): look at papers that cite this one (google scholar) and make sure we understand what further results have been achieved.	Takeaways for our work Starting point for Laplacian	Related papers Double graph model by Zhipu?
Olfati-Saber We can use this paper for the basic definitions that we want to include.	Takeaways for our work Basic problem definition Initial setting for switching, time delays Role of balanced graphs?	Related papers Switching: Jadbabaie, Moreau, Beard Time delays: Moreau (recent)
Moreau Admits nonlinear update laws Makes use of properties of stochastic matrices

Common themes

"Protocols" for concensus and cooperation

• Distributed setting (doesn't require complete connectivity)

Laplacians and Graph Theory

• Introduce Laplacian by average consensus example
• Role of lamba_2 in performance

Continuous versus Discrete

• Are they solving the same problem?

Agenda for next meeting

Original plan:

• List tools
• Open problems
• Outline paper

Revised plan: