Advances in Theories and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Multiagent systems are universal in the real world, including multirobot, smart grid, and various other types of networked control systems. The distributed control of multiagent systems featuring sparse, flexible, and low-cost communication networks has become the most appealing control method, granted by its fast information development and communication technologies with fruitful results reported in the literature, such as distributed optimization, distributed estimation, distributed learning, etc.

This Special Issue focuses on the presentation of innovative results for multiagent systems characterized by key distinguished features such as unreliable and intermittent communication structures, static and dynamic agent dynamics, complex and multicontrol objectives, unstructured external disturbances and attacks, local and neighboring time-delays, etc. The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect selected papers reporting on topics including the latest distributed control frameworks, paradigms, and schemes for multiagent systems, ranging from theoretical analyses to practical applications, with a particular emphasis on multirobot systems and smart grid systems, such as distributed task assignment, collective simultaneous localization and mapping, rigid formation; the cooperative hunting of multiple unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned arial vehicles, unmanned surface vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, spacecrafts; and hierarchical voltage/current/power/load sharing for inverter-interfaced large-scale AC/DC islanded/grid-tied smart grid systems, where the distributed generators can be wind, solar, battery, supercapacitor, flywheel, or other sources.

Prof. Dr. He Cai 
Guest Editor

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