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Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

A Scale-Free Protocol Design

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  • Provides current research of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Presents a scale-free Protocol Design
  • Gives an overview over recent research on Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 248)

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This monograph represents the outcome of research effort of the authors on scalable synchronization of large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). Cooperative control of multi-agent systems has been growing in popularity and is highly interdisciplinary in recent years. The application of synchronization of MAS includes automobile systems, aerospace systems, multiple-satellite GPS, high-resolution satellite imagery, aircraft formations, highway traffic platooning, industrial process control with multiple processes, and more. Most of the proposed protocols in the literature for synchronization of MAS require some knowledge of the communication network such as bounds on the spectrum of the associated Laplacian matrix and the number of agents. These protocols suffer from scale fragility wherein stability properties are lost for large-scale networks or when the communication graph changes.

 

In the past few years, the authors of this monograph have worked on developing scale-free protocol design for various cases of MAS problems. The key contribution of the monograph is to offer a scale-free design framework and provide scale-free protocols to achieve synchronization, delayed synchronization, and almost synchronization in the presence of input and communication delays, input saturation and external disturbances. The scale-free design framework solely is based on the knowledge of agent models and does not depend on information about the communication network such as the spectrum of the associated Laplacian matrix or size of the network.

 

Drawing upon their extensive work in this area, the authors provide a thorough treatment of agents with higher-order dynamics, different classes of models for agents, and the underlying networks representing actions of the agents. The high technical level of their presentation and their rigorous mathematical approach make this monograph a timely and valuable resource that will fill a gap in theexisting literature.

Reviews

“The contents of this book are drawn from the research of the authors and their coworkers which also includes application of their scale-free design to power grid systems. It can be served as a good reference book for practicing engineers, graduate students, and researchers in the field of MAS.” (Peijun Wang, zbMATH 1518.93003, 2023)

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

    Zhenwei Liu

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Donya Nojavanzadeh, Ali Saberi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

  • Book Subtitle: A Scale-Free Protocol Design

  • Authors: Zhenwei Liu, Donya Nojavanzadeh, Ali Saberi

  • Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12954-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12953-7Published: 23 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12956-8Published: 23 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12954-4Published: 22 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2198-4182

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 392

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 116 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Complexity

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