BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2002-414 ENTRY:: January 15, 2002 ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science TITLE:: Decentralized Control for Coordinated flow of Multi-Agent Systems TYPE:: Technical Report (paper) REVISION:: 1 AUTHOR:: Crespi, Valentino AUTHOR:: Cybenko, George AUTHOR:: Santini, Massimo AUTHOR:: Rus, Daniela DATE:: January 2002 RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to Technical Report Librarian Department of Computer Science Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2002-414.ps.Z RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2002-414.pdf ABSTRACT:: This paper describes a distributed algorithm for coordinating the flow of a mass of vehicles approaching a highway exit or a tollbooth. We provide the problem formulation, a general methodology for distributed control and an instantiation of this methodology to the coordinated flow problem. We analyze our algorithm and provide experimental data. END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2002-414