TY - JOUR
T1 - Functional Role of Synchronization
T2 - A Mean-Field Control Perspective
AU - Mehta, Prashant
AU - Meyn, Sean
N1 - This research was supported by AFOSR under Grant No. FA9550-23-1-0060 and NSF under Grant Nos. 2336137 (Mehta) and 2306023 (Meyn). Acknowledgements
PY - 2025/2
Y1 - 2025/2
N2 - The broad goal of the research surveyed in this article is to develop methods for understanding the aggregate behavior of interconnected dynamical systems, as found in mathematical physics, neuroscience, economics, power systems and neural networks. Questions concern prediction of emergent (often unanticipated) phenomena, methods to formulate distributed control schemes to influence this behavior, and these topics prompt many other questions in the domain of learning. The area of mean field games, pioneered by Peter Caines, are well suited to addressing these topics. The approach is surveyed in the present paper within the context of controlled coupled oscillators.
AB - The broad goal of the research surveyed in this article is to develop methods for understanding the aggregate behavior of interconnected dynamical systems, as found in mathematical physics, neuroscience, economics, power systems and neural networks. Questions concern prediction of emergent (often unanticipated) phenomena, methods to formulate distributed control schemes to influence this behavior, and these topics prompt many other questions in the domain of learning. The area of mean field games, pioneered by Peter Caines, are well suited to addressing these topics. The approach is surveyed in the present paper within the context of controlled coupled oscillators.
KW - Coupled oscillators
KW - feedback particle filter
KW - interacting particle systems
KW - mean-field games
KW - synchronization
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U2 - 10.1007/s11424-025-4502-z
DO - 10.1007/s11424-025-4502-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105000319230
SN - 1009-6124
VL - 38
SP - 313
EP - 337
JO - Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
JF - Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
IS - 1
ER -