We review the observations and the basic laws describing the essential aspects of collective
motion—being one of the most common and spectacular manifestation of coordinated …

The unmanned aerial vehicle formation plays a crucial role in numerous applications, such
as reconnaissance, agricultural plant protection, and electric power inspection. This paper …

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 …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

Recent advances in technology are delivering robots of reduced size and cost. A natural
outgrowth of these advances are systems comprised of large numbers of robots that …

The leader-following consensus problem of higher order multi-agent systems is considered.
In the system, the dynamics of each agent and the leader is a linear system. The control of …

This note considers the problem of information consensus among multiple agents in the
presence of limited and unreliable information exchange with dynamically changing …

The purpose of this article is to provide a tutorial overview of information consensus in
multivehicle cooperative control. Theoretical results regarding consensus-seeking under …

Traditionally, much of the study of networks has focused on structural features. Indeed,
mathematical subjects such as graph theory have a rich history of investigating network …

We provide a model (for both continuous and discrete time) describing the evolution of a
flock. Our model is parameterized by a constant beta capturing the rate of decay-which in …