Title:

Population Dynamics Approach for Resource Allocation Problems

Advisor: Pavel, Lacra
Issue Date: Nov-2014
Abstract (summary): Resource allocation management has become a challenging problem in many aspects all around the world and can be more complicated by high production costs and scarcity of the resources. In this thesis, a water distribution system (WDS), as an example of resource distribution problems, has been investigated. To achieve an adequate level of service to satisfy the demands, the flow of water should be controlled. Here, we utilize a novel game-theoretic approach along with a convex-optimization-based controller to keep the WDS under control. The feedback interconnection of the WDS and controllers reaches an asymptotically stable equilibrium point where its stability analysis uses passivity concepts and the Lyapunov stability theorem for the closed-loop system. Furthermore, an improvement has been made to controllers to make the system robust to reject a certain type of disturbance and to converge to desired equilibrium points in the presence of disturbances.
Content Type: Thesis

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