Special Session 100: 

Controlling collective dynamics: the Boltzmann-Bellman approach

Dante Kalise
Imperial College London
England
Co-Author(s):    Giacomo Albi
Abstract:
We study the synthesis of optimal control policies for large-scale multi-agent systems. The optimal control design induces a stabilizing action via an optimal feedback mapping. We study a wide class of optimal feedback controller which can be obtained from dynamic programming techniques. In order to circumvent the dimensionality issues associated to the control of large-scale agent-based models, we follow a Boltzmann approach. We generate (sub)optimal controls signals for the kinetic limit of the multi-agent dynamics, by sampling of the optimal solution of the control problem associated to two-agent dynamics. Numerical experiments assess the performance of the proposed design.