Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: An Optimal and Robust Perspective

Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: An Optimal and Robust Perspective reports and encourages technology transfer in the field of cooperative control of multi-agent systems. The book deals with UGVs, UAVs, UUVs and spacecraft, and more. It presents an extended exposition of the authors’ recent work on all aspects of multi-agent technology. Modelling and cooperative control of multi-agent systems are topics of great interest, across both academia (research and education) and industry (for real applications and end-users). Graduate students and researchers from a wide spectrum of specialties in electrical, mechanical or aerospace engineering fields will use this book as a key resource.

Helps shape the reader's understanding of optimal and robust cooperative control design techniques for multi-agent systemsPresents new theoretical control challenges and investigates unresolved/open problems Explores future research trends in multi-agent systemsOffers a certain amount of analytical mathematics, practical numerical procedures, and actual implementations of some proposed approaches

Part One - About Cooperative Control

1. Introduction 2. Preliminaries

Part Two - Optimal Cooperative Control 3. Optimal consensus control of multiple integrator systems 4. Optimal cooperative tracking and flocking of multi-agent systems 5. Optimal formation control of multiple UAVs 6. Optimal coverage control of multi-robot systems

Part Three - Robust Cooperative Control

7. Robust consensus control of multi-agent systems with input delay 8. Robust consensus control of multi-agent systems with disturbance rejection 9. Robust consensus control nonlinear p-order integrator systems 10. Robust cooperative control of networked negative-imaginary systems