Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks Emergent Problems, Models, and Issues /

• Main Authors: Ren, Wei (Author), Cao, Yongcan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Series: Communications and Control Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Automation.; Electrical engineering.; Control.; Systems Theory, Control.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Multi-agent systems have numerous civilian, homeland security, and military applications; however, for all these applications, communication bandwidth, sensing range, power constraints, and stealth requirements preclude centralized command and control. The alternative is distributed coordination, wh...