Informativity for centralized design of distributed controllers for networked systems

Recent work in data-driven control has led to methods that find stabilizing controllers directly from measurements of an unknown system. However, for multi-agent systems we are often interested in finding controllers that take their distributed nature into account. For instance, the full state might not be available for feedback at every agent. In order to deal with such information, we consider the problem of finding a feedback controller with a given block structure based on measured data. Moreover, we provide an algorithm that, if it converges, leads to a maximally sparse controller.