This paper proposes a distributed coordination mechanism between local feedback controllers that adapt the switching times of traffic lights at neighboring intersections. Some heavily loaded intersections are designated “leader intersections”. There, a local control agent sets switching times to minimize the expected queues, knowing vehicle passing times at local upstream sensors only, and send...

This paper is concernedwith a leader–follower stochastic differential gamewith asymmetric information, where the information available to the follower is based on some sub-σ -algebra of that available to the leader. Such kind of game problem has wide applications in finance, economics and management engineering such as newsvendor problems, cooperative advertising and pricing problems. Stochasti...

A symmetry position/force hybrid control framework for cooperative object transportation tasks with multiple humanoid robots is proposed in this paper. In a leader-follower type cooperation, follower robots plan their biped gaits based on the forces generated at their hands after a leader robot moves. Therefore, if the leader robot moves fast (rapidly pulls or pushes the carried object), some o...

This paper investigates the relationship between trade and economic development using a two-country, non-scale-growth model. Depending on the share of the expenditure for manufactured goods, we obtain two different results with regard to long-run production patterns. If the share of the expenditure is less than or equal to half, the leader country diversifies while the follower country asymptot...

We propose a distributed adaptive fuzzy iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm to deal with coordination control problems in leader-following multi-agent systems in which each follower agent has unknown dynamics and a non-repeatable input disturbance. The ILC protocols are designed with distributed initial-state learning and it is not necessary to fix the initial value at the beginning of e...

We propose a generic framework for an active leader-follower surveillance system. The system can ingest inputs from a variety of multimodal leader sensors: Radars, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), or cameras. Rule and learning based pattern recognition techniques are performed on the leader sensors to infer unusual behaviors and events. In order to calibrate the follower PTZ cameras to t...

Imperfect synchrony between male calls occurs in the acoustically interacting bushcricket Mecopoda elongata, and males establishing the temporal leadership attract more females in choice experiments. An asymmetrical representation of leader and follower signals in pairs of direction-selective neurons of the auditory pathway was suggested to represent the neural basis for the preference of femal...

In this contribution we discuss the application of Model Predictive Control (MPC) to achieve a connected network formation spacecrafts. A set three spacecrafts are used in-plane which initially in network. Two scenarios including control and with collision avoidance leader-follower configuration is addressed through simulation studies. The aspect MPC stability connectivity also briefly context ...

In this paper, the time-varying formation tracking problem of general linear multi-agent system is discussed. A distributed protocol based on Riccati inequalities with adaptive coupling weights among follower agents and leader agent designed for a leader-following under fixed switching topologies. The configuration involved in paper expressed as bounded piecewise continuously differentiable vec...

By mobilizing the theoretical field of decision-making and empirical study 15 cases, this article highlights analyzes recurrence conjugal interactions leading to decision undertake as a couple. The results show that spouse who initiates project becomes ‘leader’, while other positions himself, more or less voluntarily, ‘follower’. This configuration induces renunciation on part follower, followe...