Publisher's Synopsis
Subject and importance: Distributed coordination in multi-agent systems has received much attention from multidisciplinary researchers in a wide range, including biology, physics, and engineering. This is partly due to its wide applications to attitude alignment of satellites, cooperative control of unmanned aerial vehicles, and so on. Despite their wide applicability, there are still a number of challenges faced by multiagent systems, including cooperative control for agents against faults and external disturbances. This "Open access" book focuses on cooperative safety control design for multiagent systems. It is essential for engineers, researchers, and postgraduates seeking to master the cooperative control of multiagent systems. It provides recent theoretical results and applications of the cooperative control for multiagent systems subjected to multiple faults and external disturbances in the framework of the fully actuated system approach.
Content summary and key points: Several important topics are studied, such as prescribed-time control, formation control, and fault-tolerant game control. This "Open access" book intends to provide the readers with a good understanding of cooperative safety control based on the fully actuated system approach. The special feature of this "Open access" book is that a fully actuated approach is proposed for the cooperative safety control of multi-agent systems, which is beneficial for reducing the complexity of control design and stability analysis.
Benefits and prerequisites: Interested readers can learn a novel approach to cooperative safety control of multiagent systems, and this book can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of multi-robot cooperation, unmanned aerial vehicle formation, control engineering, etc.
