Equilibrium Selection in Replicator Equations Using Adaptive-Gain Control
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2025
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Zino, L.
Ye, M.
Calafiore, G.C.
Rizzo, A.
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IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025; 70(10):6799-6814
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Lorenzo Zino, Mengbin Ye, Giuseppe C. Calafiore, Alessandro Rizzo
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In this article, we deal with the equilibrium selection problem, which amounts to steering a population of individuals engaged in strategic game-theoretic interactions to a desired collective behavior. In the literature, this problem has been typically tackled by means of open-loop strategies, whose applicability is limited by the need of accurate a priori information on the game and a lack of robustness to uncertainty and noise. Here, we overcome these limitations by adopting a closed-loop approach using an adaptive-gain control scheme within a replicator equation—a nonlinear ordinary differential equation that models the evolution of the collective behavior of the population. For most classes of 2-action matrix games, we establish sufficient conditions to design a controller that guarantees convergence of the replicator equation to the desired equilibrium, requiring limited a priori information on the game. Numerical simulations corroborate and expand our theoretical findings.
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