Advanced Distributed Consensus for Multiagent Systems

Table of Contents

1. An Overview 2. Consensus over Fixed Networks 3. Consensus in Multiagent Systems over Time-Varying Networks 4. Distributed Consensus of Multiagent Systems 5. Consensus over Vulnerable Networks 6. Consensus on State-Dependent Fuzzy Graphs 7. Distributed Consensus on State-Dependent Evolutionary Graphs 8. Multivehicle Cooperative Control 9. Path Planning in Autonomous Ground Vehicles 10. Path Planning in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles

Authors

Magdi S. Mahmoud Distinguished Professor, Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Magdi S. Mahmoud is a distinguished professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He has been faculty member at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang), and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK (Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of 51 books, inclusive book-chapters, and author/co-author of more than 610 peer-reviewed papers. He is a fellow of the IEE and a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK). He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networked control systems, fault-tolerant systems, cyberphysical systems, and information technology. Mojeed O. Oyedeji King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Systems Engineering Department, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Mojeed Oyedeji is presently a post-doctoral candidate at the Control & Instrumentation Engineering (CIE) Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He obtained his PhD and MSc Degrees in Systems and Control Engineering from KFUPM in 2020 and 2017 respectively. His research interests are in the fields of renewable energy, distributed and model predictive control, and artificial intelligence. Yuanqing Xia Professor, School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Yuanqing Xia has worked in the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, since 2004, first as an associate professor, and, since 2008, as a professor. He is a Yangtze River Scholar and Chair Professor of the Beijing Institute of Technology since 2016. His current research interests are in the fields of networked control systems, robust control, sliding mode control, active disturbance rejection control, biomedical signal processing, and cloud control systems.