EE 5330. Distributed Decision & Control (3-0), 3 hours credit.

Topics include cooperative decision and control algorithms for networked teams of dynamical agents on communication graphs. Included are local decision protocols that yield global team behavior, synchronization of dynamics including coupled oscillators and chaotic systems, analysis of stability and consensus convergence behaviors, and group decision and adversarial games on graphs.

Applications are to animal behaviors such as swarms, flocks, and schools, and to engineering systems such as: dynamical systems on communications networks, networked teams of autonomous systems and vehicles, and formation flight.

Companies hiring Control Engineers include Bell Flight, Ford Motors, Toyota Motors, Lockheed Martin, Samsung, AT&T, Ericsson, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.

Prerequisites: none.

Instructor: F.L. Lewis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and UTA Research Institute

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This course is in the EE SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS sequence

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