Saverio Bolognani: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2021

Award: The Golden Owl
Name Dr. Saverio Bolognani
Address
Institut für Automatik
ETH Zürich, ETL K 13.2
Physikstrasse 3
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 632 58 86
E-mailbsaverio@ethz.ch
URLhttp://www.bsaver.io
DepartmentInformation Technology and Electrical Engineering
RelationshipLecturer

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
227-0694-00LGame Theory and Control4 credits2V + 2US. Bolognani
AbstractGame Theory is the study of strategic decision making, and was used to solve problems in economics by John Nash (A Beautiful Mind) and others. We study concepts and methods in Game Theory, and show how these can be used to solve control design problems. The course covers non-cooperative dynamic games and Nash equilibria, and emphasizes their use in control applications.
ObjectiveFormulate an optimal control problem as a noncooperative dynamic game, compute mixed and behavioural strategies for different equilibria.
ContentIntroduction to game theory, mathematical tools including convex optimisation and dynamic programming, zero sum games in matrix and extensive form, pure and mixed strategies, minimax theorem, nonzero sum games in normal and extensive form, numerical computation of mixed equilibrium strategies, Nash and Stackelberg equilibria, potential games, infinite dynamic games, differential games, behavioral strategies and informational properties for dynamic games, aggregative games, VCG mechanism.
Lecture notesWill be made available from SPOD or course webpage.
LiteratureBasar, T. and Olsder, G. Dynamic Noncooperative Game Theory, 2nd
Edition, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1998. Available through ETH Bibliothek directly at http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/1.9781611971132.
Prerequisites / NoticeControl Systems I (or equivalent). Necessary methods and concepts from optimization will be covered in the course.
227-0920-00LSeminar in Systems and Control0 credits1SS. Bolognani, R. D'Andrea, J. Lygeros, R. Smith
AbstractCurrent topics in Systems and Control presented mostly by external speakers from academia and industry.
Objectivesee above