This paper provides a review of the consensus problem as one of the most challenging
issues in the distributed control of the multi-agent systems (MASs). In this survey, firstly, the …

In this paper, a cooperative time-varying formation maneuvering problem with connectivity
preservation and collision avoidance is investigated for a fleet of autonomous surface …

In real-world applications, industrial cranes commonly suffer from effects caused by the so-
called double-pendulum phenomenon in many situations. However, at present, the double …

To steer a group of agents to maneuver with the desired collective forms, this article studies
the affine formation maneuver control of high-order multiagent systems using a two-layered …

In this paper, for achieving the discounted optimal feedback stabilization of a nonlinear
overhead crane system, we establish an intelligent control strategy to obtain the solution of …

The containment maneuvering of marine surface vehicles has two objectives. The first one is
to force the marine vehicles to follow a convex hull spanned by multiple parameterized …

Nowadays, advances in different fields of technology have increased demands for reliable
controllers. Uncertainty and disturbances, which are inevitable in most real‐world systems …

To drive a group of agents to maneuver continuously with the desired collective forms, this
paper addresses a distributed formation maneuver control problem of directed networked …

This paper develops optimal control protocols for the distributed output synchronization
problem of leader-follower multiagent systems with an active leader. Agents are assumed to …

Presently, ship-mounted cranes are playing more and more important roles in modern
ocean transportation and logistics. Different from traditional land-fixed crane systems, ship …