DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HARDWARE AGENT IN A CONTROL SITUATION HAVING A PLURALITY OF HARDWARE AGENTS

A device and method for controlling a hardware agent in a control situation having a plurality of hardware agents. The method includes ascertaining of a potential function by a first neural network; ascertaining of a control scenario for a control situation from a plurality of possible control scenarios by a second neural network; ascertaining a common action sequence for the plurality of hardware agents by seeking an optimum of the ascertained potential function over the possible common action sequences of the ascertained control scenario; and controlling at least one of the plurality of hardware agents in accordance with the ascertained common action sequence.