Distributed Cooperative Control and Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems

Qing Wang received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in control science and engineering from the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. She is currently a lecturer at the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include multi-agent systems, nonlinear systems, intelligent control, and distributed optimization. Bin Xin received the B.S. degree in information engineering and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2004 and 2012, respectively. He was an academic visitor at the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre at the University of Manchester from 2011 to 2012. He is currently a professor at the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology. His current research interests include search and optimization, evolutionary computation, unmanned systems, and multi-agent systems. Jie Chen received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in control theory and control engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1986, 1996, and 2001, respectively. He was the President of Tongji University, Shanghai, China, during 2018-2023. He is a Professor with the Control Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology and Tongji University, where he serves as the Director of the National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems (KAIUS). He is the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. His current research interests include complex systems, multiagent systems, multiobjective optimization and decision, and constrained nonlinear control.

• Introduction.- Disturbance observer-based sliding mode control for multi-agent systems with mismatched uncertainties.- Observer-based containment for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with time-delayed protocols.- Robust output containment control of multi-agent systems with unknown heterogeneous nonlinear uncertainties in directed networks.- Distributed event-based consensus control of multi-agent system with matching nonlinear uncertainties.