Distributed Cooperative Control: Emerging Applications

Examines new cooperative control methodologies tailored to real–world applications in various domains such as in communication systems, physics systems, and multi–robotic systems

The book presents applications of distributed cooperative control in engineering and physics systems to address emerging needs for high efficiency distributed control systems. After introducing backgrounds and reviewing fundamental distributed consensus algorithms, the book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses networked communication systems, including the distributed consensus for quantized communication, cooperative spectrum sensing and distributed radio environment mapping for cognitive radio networks. The second part of the book presents cooperative control of multi–robotic systems, and discusses the source seeking and plume tracking problems by distributed cooperating robots. Cooperative control of multi–agent physics systems are addressed in the third part of the book, examining friction control of coupled nanoparticles and synchronization of coupled laser arrays.

Provides the fundamental mechanism for solving collective behaviors in naturally–occurring systems as well as cooperative behaviors in man–made systems Discusses cooperative control methodologies using real–world applications, including semi–conductor laser arrays, mobile sensor networks, and multi–robotic systems Includes results from the research group at the Stevens Institute of Technology to show how advanced control technologies can impact challenging issues, such as high energy systems and oil spill monitoring

Emerging Applications of Distributed Cooperative Control is written for control engineers, robotics researchers, graduate students and other professionals who are interested in dynamic systems and controls.

Yi Guo, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology. She has more than fifteen years of research experience in controls and robotics, and has taught robotics and controls courses for the past 10 years at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Guo has authored/co–authored over 100 peer–reviewed journal and conference papers. She is currently the Associate editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. Dr. Guo frequently presents at international conferences, and gave invited talks for students and other professionals.