A distributed methodology for approximate uniform global minimum sharing
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Author(s)
Parisini, Thomas
Bin, michelangelo
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The paper deals with the distributed minimum sharing problem: a set of decision-makers compute the minimum of some local quantities of interest in a distributed and decentralized way by exchanging information through a communication network. We propose an adjustable approximate solution which enjoys several properties of crucial importance in applications. In particular, the proposed solution has good decentralization properties and it is scalable in that the number of local variables does not grow with the size or topology of the communication network. Moreover, a global and uniform (both in the initial time and in the initial conditions) asymptotic stability result is provided towards a steady state which can be made arbitrarily close to the sought minimum. Exact asymptotic convergence can be recovered at the price of losing uniformity with respect to the initial time.
Date Issued
2021-09-01
Date Acceptance
2021-05-13
Citation
Automatica, 2021, 131
ISSN
0005-1098
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Automatica
Volume
131
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Subjects
01 Mathematical Sciences
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 109777
Date Publish Online
2021-06-25