Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems and Security Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Multi-agent systems (MAS) and cyber-physical systems (CPS), as complex networked systems from a mathematical viewpoint, have become global hot topics. With the rapid development of computing and communication technologies, the complexity of mathematical problems for MAS and CPS has increased dramatically in the control community. Although academic researchers and industrial engineers have made enormous efforts to study the cooperative control problem of MAS and the security control problem of CPS, the corresponding solutions remain to be found. Therefore, new methods and techniques for cooperative control of MAS and security control of CPS are urgently needed.

This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of MAS and CPS. This Special Issue aims to collect the latest research achievements in MAS and CPS as well as their possible applications in various domains.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Consensus/formation control of MAS;
• Cooperative control of stochastic MAS;
• Observer-based cooperative control of MAS;
• Privacy-preserving solutions for CPS;
• Methods for detection of cyber-physical attacks;
• Stochastic control of MAS/CPS;
• Data-driven control and optimization for MAS/CPS.

Prof. Dr. Jun Huang
Dr. Yueyuan Zhang
Dr. Yuan Sun
Dr. Yankai Li
Guest Editors

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