Dynamic coordination and distributed control design of multi-agent systems
多智能体系统动态协调与分布式控制设计

The main research objective of multi-agent systems is to investigate the inherent mechanism and principles of collective coordination phenomena based on the interaction between individuals, where control or feedback plays a key role in the coordination behavior of multi-agent systems. This paper discusses novel basic problems in multi-agent coordination, including output regulation, set coordination, and coverage. Two distributed output regulation methods and related results based on either distributed estimation or distributed internal model are emphasized for multi-agent systems; set aggregation and set optimization are then discussed intensively for the target set coordination of multi-agent systems; from the viewpoint of the covered objects, the research background and recent results about three kinds of coverages such as region coverage, boundary coverage, and target coverage are introduced, though there are various classifications for multiagent coverages. Finally, the paper also shows prospects for theoretical or application research of coordination control of multi-agent systems.