Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Distributed Control and Estimation of Networked Agent Systems


Publishing date
23 Aug 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
05 Apr 2013

Lead Editor

1Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China

2Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, ITM, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, The Netherlands

3Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

4School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

5School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia


Distributed Control and Estimation of Networked Agent Systems

Description

Most of the real-world large-scale systems can be modeled as networked agent systems, where examples include biological systems, multivehicle systems, and distributed sensor systems. Recently, distributed control and estimation of networked agent systems have found extensive applications in various domains including distributed computing, formation control, spacecraft control, distributed sensor networks, and smart grids. Since each individual agent in the networked agent systems has limited computational and sensing abilities, distributed control and estimation design have more significant potential advantages than centralized ones in the context of networked agent systems. Furthermore, it has been shown that the abundance of embedded computational and sensing resources in networked agent systems enables enhanced operational effectiveness through cooperative teamwork in real applications.

The main focus of this special issue will be on new and existing distributed control and estimation approaches in networked agent systems, which will certainly become an international forum for researchers in all branches of applied mathematics as well as control engineering to present, share, and summarize the most recent developments and ideas on related topics in distributed control and estimation of networked agent systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Consensus, flocking, and swarming control of networked agent systems
  • Synchronization of complex networks
  • Modeling, identification, and optimization of networked agent systems
  • Distributed filter and estimation of large-scale sensor networks
  • Event-triggered-based coordination
  • Distributed diagnosis and fault-tolerant control
  • Distributed adaptive control
  • Collective control with uncertain disturbances
  • Coordination with communication constraints
  • Distributed control and design in smart grids
  • Distributed prediction control in networked agent systems
  • Distributed model predictive control

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 287917
  • - Editorial

Distributed Control and Estimation of Networked Agent Systems

Wenwu Yu | Ming Cao | ... | Xinghuo Yu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 451960
  • - Research Article

Synchronizability of Small-World Networks Generated from a Two-Dimensional Kleinberg Model

Yi Zhao | Jianwen Feng | Jingyi Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 461924
  • - Research Article

Impulsive Pinning Markovian Switching Stochastic Complex Networks with Time-Varying Delay

Chen Xu | Jingyi Wang | ... | Yi Zhao
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 703414
  • - Research Article

A Hybrid Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Cluster-Based Systems

Moharram Challenger | Elif Haytaoglu | ... | Kayhan Erciyes
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 586091
  • - Research Article

Nonfragile Guaranteed Cost Control and Optimization for Interconnected Systems of Neutral Type

Heli Hu | Dan Zhao | Qingling Zhang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 192351
  • - Research Article

State Consensus Analysis and Design for High-Order Discrete-Time Linear Multiagent Systems

Yanrong Ge | Yangzhou Chen | ... | Zhonghe He
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 498739
  • - Research Article

Design of an Attitude and Heading Reference System Based on Distributed Filtering for Small UAV

Long Zhao | Qing Yun Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 505794
  • - Research Article

Capacity Analysis for Parallel Runway through Agent-Based Simulation

Yang Peng | Gao Wei | Sun Jun-Qing
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 186934
  • - Research Article

Approximate Analytical Solutions of Fractional Perturbed Diffusion Equation by Reduced Differential Transform Method and the Homotopy Perturbation Method

Zhoujin Cui | Zisen Mao | ... | Pinneng Yu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 208609
  • - Research Article

Synchronization of Intermittently Coupled Dynamical Networks

Gang Zhang | Guanrong Chen
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