An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-Agent Coordination

This paper reviews some main results and progress in distributed multi-agent coordination, focusing on papers published in major control systems and robotics journals since 2006. Distributed coordination of multiple vehicles, including unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, and unmanned...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial informatics Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 427 - 438
Main Authors: Cao, Yongcan, Yu, Wenwu, Ren, Wei, Chen, Guanrong
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.02.2013
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithm design and analysis
Communities
Control systems
Delay
Delay effects
Distributed coordination
Focusing
formation control
Heuristic algorithms
multi-agent system
Multiagent systems
Network topology
Optimization
sensor network
Unmanned
Unmanned ground vehicles
Vehicle dynamics
Vehicles
ISSN:1551-3203, 1941-0050
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Summary:This paper reviews some main results and progress in distributed multi-agent coordination, focusing on papers published in major control systems and robotics journals since 2006. Distributed coordination of multiple vehicles, including unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, and unmanned underwater vehicles, has been a very active research subject studied extensively by the systems and control community. The recent results in this area are categorized into several directions, such as consensus, formation control, optimization, and estimation. After the review, a short discussion section is included to summarize the existing research and to propose several promising research directions along with some open problems that are deemed important for further investigations.
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ISSN:1551-3203
1941-0050
DOI:10.1109/TII.2012.2219061