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MinMax Mean-Field Team Approach for a Leader-Follower Network: A Saddle-Point Strategy
Mohammad M. Baharloo, Jalal Arabneydi, Amir G. Aghdam
This paper investigates a soft-constrained MinMax control problem of a leader-follower network. The network consists of one leader and an arbitrary number of followers that wish to…
A Certainty Equivalence Result in Team-Optimal Control of Mean-Field Coupled Markov Chains
Jalal Arabneydi, Amir G. Aghdam
This paper studies a large number of homogeneous Markov decision processes where the transition probabilities and costs are coupled in the empirical distribution of states (also ca…
Optimal Dynamic Pricing for Binary Demands in Smart Grids: A Fair and Privacy-Preserving Strategy
Jalal Arabneydi, Amir G. Aghdam
Motivated by demand-side management in smart grids, a decentralized controlled Markov chain formulation is proposed to model a homogeneous population of users with binary demands (…
Near-Optimal Design for Fault-Tolerant Systems with Homogeneous Components under Incomplete Information
Jalal Arabneydi, Amir G. Aghdam
In this paper, we study a fault-tolerant control for systems consisting of multiple homogeneous components such as parallel processing machines. This type of system is often more r…
Near-Optimal Control Strategy in Leader-Follower Networks: A Case Study for Linear Quadratic Mean-Field Teams
Mohammad M. Baharloo, Jalal Arabneydi, Amir G. Aghdam
In this paper, a decentralized stochastic control system consisting of one leader and many homogeneous followers is studied. The leader and followers are coupled in both dynamics a…
Optimal Distributed Control for Leader-Follower Networks: A Scalable Design
Jalal Arabneydi, Mohammad M. Baharloo, Amir G. Aghdam
The focus of this paper is directed towards optimal control of multi-agent systems consisting of one leader and a number of followers in the presence of noise. The dynamics of ever…