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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Preliminaries and Literature Review
• Preliminaries
• Overview of Recent Research in Distributed Multi-agent Coordination
• Part II: Emergent Problems in Distributed Multi-agent Coordination
• Collective Periodic Motion Coordination
• Collective Tracking with a Dynamic Leader
• Containment Control with Multiple Leaders
• Part III: Emergent Models in Distributed Multi-agent Coordination
• Networked Lagrangian Systems
• Networked Fractional-order Systems
• Part IV Emergent Issues in Distributed Multi-agent Coordination
• Sampled-data Setting
• Optimality Aspect
• Time Delay.