We present a formal framework for modeling and control of cooperative multiagent problem solving. Such a framework is crucial for understanding and evaluating various design choices based on first principles. This framework allows us to define precisely the notion of optimal cooperation and analyze its complexity. Communication decisions are introduced to allow agents to reason explicitly about...

We consider a distributed joint random access and power control scheme for interference management in wireless ad hoc networks. To derive decentralized solutions that do not require any cooperation among the users, we formulate this problem as non-cooperative joint random access and power control game, in which each user minimizes its average transmission cost with a given rate constraint. Usin...

Decentralized cooperative resource allocation schemes for robotic swarms are essential to enable high reliability in throughput data message exchanges. These require control signaling avoid half-duplex problems at the receiver and mitigate interference. We propose two schemes, device sequential group scheduling, introduce a design. observe that failure reception of these signals lead non-cooper...

Decentralized control strategies are popular candidates in microgrids control because of their reliability and performance. Conventionally, droop control (as a main decentralized strategy) is been utilized in order to prevent permanent droop of voltage and frequency after change in loads and also to share generated power between distributed generation units. In this paper, a new droop control s...

—Disaster relief networks are designed to be adaptable and resilient so to encompass the demands of the emergency service. Cognitive Radio enhanced ad-hoc architecture has been put forward as a candidate to enable such networks. Spectrum sensing, the cornerstone of the Cognitive Radio paradigm, has been the focus of intensive research, from which the main conclusion was that its performance can...

In this paper we present implementation and experiments of a decentralized cooperative exploration strategy developed by our research group. The exploration strategy is based on the construction of a roadmap of the explored area, with the associate safe region. No task decomposition/allocation is performed. The roadmap is incrementally built through a simple and efficient decentralized cooperat...

This paper solves a data-driven control problem for a flow-based distribution network with two objectives: a resource allocation and a fair distribution of costs. These objectives represent both cooperation and competition directions. It is proposed a solution that combines either a centralized or distributed cooperative game approach using the Shapley value to determine a proper partitioning o...

Drawing on the projected increase in computing power, solid-state storage and network communication capacity to be available on personal mobile devices, we propose to build and maintain without prior knowledge a fully distributed decentralized large-scale model of the physical world around us using probabilistic methods. We envisage that, by using the multimodal sensing capabilities of modern p...