Coalitional Control: Cooperative Game Theory and Control

The evolution of information and communication technologies has yielded the means of sharing measurements and other information in an efficient and flexible way [1], which has enabled the size and complexity of control applications to increase [2]. At the same time, the improvements in the computational and communicational capabilities of control devices have fostered the development of noncentralized control architectures, already motivated by the inherent structural constraints of large-scale systems. Computer-based control approaches such as model predictive control (MPC) are visible beneficiaries of these advances and have registered a significant growth regarding both theoretical and applied fields [3], [4].