Using multiple robots to track a moving target is potentially beneficial because of the reduction in tracking uncertainty, increased coverage, and robustness to failure. Two problems arise immediately. First, these objectives are often at odds (e.g., the configuration of the robots that lead to the lowest uncertainty estimates of target pose may not be the best if one or more robots is disabled...

In this paper, a new voltage cooperative control strategy for distributed power generation system is proposed based on the multi-agent advantage actor-critic (MA2C) algorithm, which realizes flexible management and effective of energy. The attentional message processor (AACMP) extended into MA2C method to select important messages from all communication adaptively process efficiently. trained b...

The objective of meta-learning is to exploit the knowledge obtained from observed tasks improve adaptation unseen tasks. As such, meta-learners are able generalize better when they trained with a larger number and amount data per task. Given resources that needed, it generally difficult expect tasks, their respective data, necessary computational capacity be available at single central location...

Cooperative systems are ubiquitous nowadays. In a cooperative system, end users contribute resource to run the service instead of only receiving the service passively from the system. For example, users upload and comment pictures and videos on Flicker and YouTube, users submit and vote on news articles on Digg. As another example, users in BitTorrent contribute bandwidth and storage to help ea...

In this paper, the decentralized control of generalized systems is considered via a frequency domain approach. Firstly, based on the design of generalized decentralized observer-based controllers, a state-space representation of the decentralized Bezout identity is developed for generalized decentralized control systems with two control channels. Secondly, all the stabilizing decentralized cont...

Several traffic control approaches address the problem of reducing traffic jams. A class of them deals with coordination of traffic lights to allow vehicles traveling in a given direction to pass an arterial without stopping. However, in cities where the business centers are no longer located exclusively downtown, this approach is not appropriate: simple offline optimization of the synchronizat...