Introduction to Distributed Control

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In this lecture, we take a look at the problem of distributed control. We will begin by seeing why the problem is hard. Then we will look at one obvious approach towards solving the problem. Other approaches to the problem will also be mentioned.

Lecture Materials

• Lecture: Introduction to Distributed Control

Reading

• Please refresh the material covered by Henrik a couple of weeks ago[1].

• Consensus algorithms will be covered in detail in the class next week. We will also touch upon one such algorithm in passing. For more details, you can read this paper.[2].

• Additional references are mentioned in the lecture notes. I particularly recommend references 11, 12 and 25. Most of the cited papers are available using IEEE Xplore[3]. If you are unable to obtain any, please send me [4] a mail.