Topics These lecture notes are intended primarily for graduate students interested in
network systems, distributed algorithms, and cooperative control. The objective is to answer …

We present a survey of formation control of multi-agent systems. Focusing on the sensing
capability and the interaction topology of agents, we categorize the existing results into …

Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a
distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of …

This article addresses the cooperative target enclosing problem of ring-networked
underactuated autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). The target velocity is unavailable, and …

Various randomized consensus algorithms have been proposed in the literature. In some
case randomness is due to the choice of a randomized network communication protocol. In …

A navigation functions' based methodology, established in our previous work for centralized
multiple robot navigation, is extended to address the problem of decentralized navigation. In …

The interrelationship between control and communication theory is becoming of
fundamental importance in many distributed control systems, such as the coordination of a …

This work presents a contribution to the solution of the average agreement problem on a
network with quantized links. Starting from the well‐known linear diffusion algorithm, we …

This article studies an optimal dynamic formation problem for heterogeneous affine
nonlinear systems. The nonidenticality in agents and the requirement for dynamic spatial …