Multi-Agent Systems: Planning, Perception and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have become increasingly important in various scientific and engineering fields, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, swarm robotics, and traffic modeling. In these systems, planning helps agents to make informed decisions, perception enables them to understand their surroundings, and control ensures they execute the actions effectively. The growing interest in MAS is driven by the rising complexity of real-world challenges that require intelligent coordination among multiple agents. Integrating planning, perception, and control is at the core of advancing MAS, making research in this area both timely and crucial.

This Special Issue, ‘Multi-Agent Systems: Planning, Perception, and Control,’ aims to offer a platform for researchers and practitioners to share their insights on the latest developments, methodologies, and applications in the field of MAS. This very objective aligns seamlessly with one of the broader foci of MDPI, which is to advance knowledge and innovation in electronics, computer science, and engineering. MDPI has a longstanding tradition of publishing groundbreaking research, and we are confident that this Special Issue will continue this tradition.

We cordially invite submissions of original research articles and reviews that cover a wide range of topics related to the planning, perception, and control of multi-agent systems. While the list is not exhaustive, some suggested themes for submissions include the following:

• Multi-agent path planning and coordination;
• Perception and sensing in multi-agent systems;
• Strategies for controlling autonomous agents;
• Distributed control frameworks and paradigms;
• Applications of multi-agent systems in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities;
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in multi-agent systems;
• Ethical and societal considerations in MAS.

Dr. Arman Dabiri
Guest Editor

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• multi-agent systems
• autonomous vehicles
• optimization
• sensing and fusion
• path and trajectory planning algorithms
• perception algorithms and technologies
• control strategies
• robotics
• swarm intelligence
• machine learning