Recent years have witnessed great advancements in the science and technology of
autonomy, robotics, and networking. This paper surveys recent concepts and algorithms for …

Control problems such as multirobot control, distributed intelligence, swarm intelligence,
distributed decision, distributed cognition, congestion control in networks, collective motion …

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 paper addresses task allocation to coordinate a fleet of autonomous vehicles by
presenting two decentralized algorithms: the consensus-based auction algorithm (CBAA) …

This paper studies the multi-robot task assignment problem in which a fleet of dispersed
robots needs to efficiently transport a set of dynamically appearing packages from their initial …

Clustering strategies are becoming increasingly relevant to boost the scalability of
distributed control methods by focusing the cooperation efforts on highly coupled agents …

This paper proposes a resource-based task allocation algorithm for multi-robot systems.
During mission operations, robots continuously consume their resources which must be …

Multiple robot cooperation is a challenging and critical issue in robotics. To conduct the
cooperative hunting by multirobots in unknown and dynamic environments, the robots not …

Multi-robot systems have huge potential for practical applications, which include sensor
networks, area surveillance, environment map**, and so forth. In many applications …

This paper studies the precedence-constrained task assignment problem for a team of
heterogeneous vehicles to deliver packages to a set of dispersed customers subject to …