From a functional standpoint, classic robots are not at all similar to biological systems. If
compared with rigid robots, animals' bodies look overly redundant, imprecise, and weak …

This paper presents a review of previous work within the field of spacecraft formation flying,
including modeling approaches and controller design. In addition, five new approaches for …

Multi-agent systems have numerous civilian, homeland security, and military applications;
however, for all these applications, communication bandwidth, sensing range, power …

Robust stability and control for systems that combine continuous-time and discrete-time
dynamics. This article is a tutorial on modeling the dynamics of hybrid systems, on the …

Thank you for opening the third edition of this monograph, dedicated to dissipative linear or
nonlinear, autonomous or time-varying, smooth or nonsmooth, single-valued or set-valued …

This article proposes and analyses distributed, leaderless, model-independent consensus
algorithms for networked Euler–Lagrange systems. We propose a fundamental consensus …

Passivity is an input–output property of dynamical systems. The concept generalizes
physical systems that cannot store more energy than the energy supplied from outside the …

Despite the emergence of many soft-bodied robotic systems, model-based feedback control
has remained an open challenge. This is largely due to the intrinsic difficulties in designing …

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transf-mation in scope
and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the? eld and the …

Robots are machines that have interested the general population throughout history. In
general, they are machines or devices that operate automatically or by remote control …