Nonlinear Oscillator Synchronization and Multi-Agent Cooperative Control on Compact Manifolds and Complex Networks
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dynamics and control; nonlinear oscillator synchronization; spacecraft attitude control; multi-agent cooperative control; complex networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of cross-disciplinary research in the areas of multi-agent cooperative control on compact manifolds, nonlinear oscillator synchronization, and complex network optimization for improved synchrony. Compact manifolds include the circle or torus for phase synchronization, Lie groups that are relevant for rigid body consensus and quantum synchronization, and strange attractors for chaos synchronization. The areas of overlap between these separate research areas motivate the cross-pollination of analytical, numerical, and experimental methods traditionally associated with a single area. We welcome the submission of recent strategies associated with the cooperative control of rigid body multi-vehicle systems on Lie groups SO(3) and SE(3) and their tangent bundles; the utilization of nonlinear agent dynamics and coupling functions with time delay, time-varying coefficients, and fractional-order derivatives and integrals for improved synchronization; and the optimization of various types of complex networks, including temporal, switching, scale-free, small-world, and multi-layer/multiplex/hypergraph networks, which enable advances to be made across discipline boundaries. In particular, we encourage the submission of novel strategies that address unique issues associated with achieving consensus or synchronization on compact manifolds in a globally continuous manner via Morse–Lyapunov functions, the incorporation of higher-order interactions, and the optimization of networks and coupling parameters to improve various metrics of synchrony.
Prof. Dr. Eric Butcher
Guest Editor
Dr. Sabina Adhikari
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- multi-agent cooperative control
- compact manifolds
- nonlinear oscillator synchronization
- complex networks
- time delay
- fractional-order dynamics
- higher-order interactions
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