ControlInformation Theory

Decentralized Control & Information

Revisiting Witsenhausen's Counterexample and beyond.

The Counterexample

Witsenhausen's counterexample has puzzled control theorists for decades. It shows that linear controllers are not always optimal for LQG problems with non-classical information structures.

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Anytime Capacity

We also explored the concept of Anytime Capacity—a necessary condition for stabilizing unstable systems over noisy channels.

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