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Cooperative Control

A Post-Workshop Volume, 2003 Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control

  • Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion?
  • Presents how natural groupings such as fish schools, bird flocks etc. coordinate themselves and how this can be used for the organization of groupings of autonomous mobile agents
  • Useful for researchers, practitioners, as well as students in cooperative control
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS, volume 309)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales

    • Andrea L. Bertozzi, Mathieu Kemp, Daniel Marthaler
    Pages 25-42
  3. Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems

    • Rafael Fierro, Kirk Wesselowski
    Pages 63-78
  4. Modeling and Analysis of Cooperative Control Systems for Uninhabited Autonomous Vehicles

    • Jorge Finke, Kevin M. Passino, Sriram Ganapathy, Andrew Sparks
    Pages 79-102
  5. Extracting Interactive Control Algorithms from Group Dynamics of Schooling Fish

    • Daniel Grünbaum, Steven Viscido, Julia K. Parrish
    Pages 103-117
  6. Cooperative Control of Large Systems

    • Maziar E. Khatir, Edward J. Davison
    Pages 119-136
  7. Pursuit Strategies for Autonomous Agents

    • J.A. Marshall, Z. Lin, M.E. Broucke, B.A. Francis
    Pages 137-151
  8. Decentralized Coordination with Local Interactions: Some New Directions

    • Abubakr Muhammad, Magnus Egerstedt
    Pages 153-170
  9. Coordination Variables and Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems

    • Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, Timothy W. McLain
    Pages 171-188
  10. Collective Motion and Oscillator Synchronization

    • Rodolphe Sepulchre, Derek Paley, Naomi Leonard
    Pages 189-205
  11. Flocking in Teams of Nonholonomic Agents

    • Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie, George J. Pappas
    Pages 229-239
  12. Cooperative Control for Localization of Mobile Sensor Networks

    • Fan Zhang, Ben Grocholsky, Vijay Kumar, Max Mintz
    Pages 241-255
  13. The Multi-Agent Rendezvous Problem. An Extended Summary

    • J. Lin, A.S. Morse, B.D.O. Anderson
    Pages 257-289
  14. Back Matter

About this book

Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion and if so what might they be? This carefully edited book presents how natural groupings such as fish schools, bird flocks, deer herds etc. coordinate themselves and move so flawlessly, often without an apparent leader or any form of centralized control. It shows how the underlying principles of cooperative control may be used for groups of mobile autonomous agents to help enable a large group of autonomous robotic vehicles in the air, on land or sea or underwater, to collectively accomplish useful tasks such as distributed, adaptive scientific data gathering, search and rescue, or reconnaissance.

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