Control and Signaling in Distributed Linear Control Systems Allowing Choices*

Abstract—Distributed choice-based control systems are those where the controls exerted by the agents depend on the choices they have individually selected. They form an interesting class of decentralized systems in which control strategies are entangled with information structures. This paper focuses on linear systems that are jointly manipulated by multiple agents. We show how target-realizing controls depend on the information possessed by the agents and how control actions can serve as signaling tools. Related issues including feasibility and optimality of control laws are discussed. I