A comprehensive review of the state of the art in the control of multi-agent systems theory and applications
The superiority of multi-agent systems over single agents for the control of unmanned air water and ground vehicles has been clearly demonstrated in a wide range of application areas. Their large-scale spatial distribution robustness high scalability and low cost enable multi-agent systems to achieve tasks that could not successfully be performed by even the most sophisticated single agent systems.
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications provides a wide-ranging review of the latest developments in the cooperative control of multi-agent systems theory and applications. The applications described are mainly in the areas of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Throughout the authors link basic theory to multi-agent cooperative control practice illustrated within the context of highly-realistic scenarios of high-level missions without losing site of the mathematical background needed to provide performance guarantees under general working conditions. Many of the problems and solutions considered involve combinations of both types of vehicles. Topics explored include target assignment?? target tracking?? consensus?? stochastic game theory-based framework?? event-triggered control?? topology design and identification?? coordination under uncertainty and coverage control.