Towards privacy-preserving cooperative control via encrypted distributed optimization

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Hauptverfasser: Binfet, Philipp, Adamek, Janis, Schlüter, Nils, Darup, Moritz Schulze
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author Binfet, Philipp
Adamek, Janis
Schlüter, Nils
Darup, Moritz Schulze
author_facet Binfet, Philipp
Adamek, Janis
Schlüter, Nils
Darup, Moritz Schulze
contents Cooperative control is crucial for the effective operation of dynamical multi-agent systems. Especially for distributed control schemes, it is essential to exchange data between the agents. This becomes a privacy threat if the data is sensitive. Encrypted control has shown the potential to address this risk and ensure confidentiality. However, existing approaches mainly focus on cloud-based control and distributed schemes are restrictive. In this paper, we present a novel privacy-preserving cooperative control scheme based on encrypted distributed optimization. More precisely, we focus on a secure distributed solution of a general consensus problem, which has manifold applications in cooperative control, by means of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). As a unique feature of our approach, we explicitly take into account the common situation that local decision variables contain copies of quantities associated with neighboring agents and ensure the neighbor's privacy. We show the effectiveness of our method based on a numerical case study dealing with the formation of mobile robots.
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spellingShingle Towards privacy-preserving cooperative control via encrypted distributed optimization
Binfet, Philipp
Adamek, Janis
Schlüter, Nils
Darup, Moritz Schulze
Systems and Control
Cooperative control is crucial for the effective operation of dynamical multi-agent systems. Especially for distributed control schemes, it is essential to exchange data between the agents. This becomes a privacy threat if the data is sensitive. Encrypted control has shown the potential to address this risk and ensure confidentiality. However, existing approaches mainly focus on cloud-based control and distributed schemes are restrictive. In this paper, we present a novel privacy-preserving cooperative control scheme based on encrypted distributed optimization. More precisely, we focus on a secure distributed solution of a general consensus problem, which has manifold applications in cooperative control, by means of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). As a unique feature of our approach, we explicitly take into account the common situation that local decision variables contain copies of quantities associated with neighboring agents and ensure the neighbor's privacy. We show the effectiveness of our method based on a numerical case study dealing with the formation of mobile robots.
title Towards privacy-preserving cooperative control via encrypted distributed optimization
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13953