Cooperative Safety Control of Multiagent Systems

Distributed coordination in multi-agent systems has garnered significant attention from researchers across diverse fields like biology, physics, and engineering, driven by its critical applications such as satellite attitude alignment and cooperative control of unmanned aerial vehicles. However, designing cooperative safety control for these systems remains challenging, particularly when agents face faults and external disturbances. The fully actuated system approach, which has gained considerable interest for its effectiveness in simplifying control design and analysis, offers a promising framework for tackling complex safety control problems.

This book focuses on cooperative safety control design for multi-agent systems based on the fully actuated system approach. It presents recent theoretical advances and applications for addressing cooperative control problems under actuator faults and external disturbances. Key topics explored include prescribed-time control, prescribed performance control, and fault-tolerant game control. A central feature of the book is its proposal and utilization of the fully actuated system approach for cooperative safety control, offering distinct advantages by significantly reducing the complexity of control design and stability analysis.

This book is primarily designed for engineers, researchers, and postgraduate students who aspire to deepen their understanding of cooperative control in multi-agent systems. Additionally, it serves as a valuable reference for professionals in related fields such as multi-robot systems, unmanned aerial vehicle formations, and control engineering. Moreover, the content is well-suited for advanced courses or seminars focused on these subjects.

Prof. Ke Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2012. He is currently a full professor with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

He has published two books and over 100 referred international journal papers and conference papers. From May 2018 to April 2019, he was a visiting scholar in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at University of Kent. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Franklin Open. He was a recipient of the Second-Class Prize of National Natural Science Award of China. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamical systems and their applications.

Prof. Bin Jiang received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1995. He had ever been a Post-Doctoral Fellow, a Research Fellow, an Invited Professor, and a Visiting Professor in Singapore, France, USA, and Canada, respectively. He is currently the President of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholar Program with the Ministry of Education. He has authored eight books and over 200 referred international journal papers. His current research interests include intelligent fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control and their applications to helicopters, satellites, high-speed aircraft, and high-speed trains.

Dr. Jiang was a recipient of the Second-Class Prize of National Natural Science Award of China. He is a Fellow of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). He currently serves as a Senior Editor of International Journal of Control, Automation

and Systems, an Associate Editor or an Editorial Board Member for a number of journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Journal of the Franklin Institute, et al. He is also a Chair of Control Systems Chapter in IEEE Nanjing Section, a member of IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes

Yonghao Ma received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Guangzhou University (GZHU), Guangzhou, China in 2019 and the M.E. degree in control engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China in 2022. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China. His research interests include fault-tolerant control for multi-agent systems and adaptive control for distributed parameter systems.

Dr. Yuhang Xu received the B.Sc. degree in automation from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from NUAA in 2022. She was a visiting Ph.D. student at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus during 2019-2021. She is currently the postdoctor in NUAA. Her current research interests include fault-tolerant control and game control for multi-agent systems.

Yuan Lu received the M.S. degree in electric engineering from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, in 2023. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing. His current research interests include formation fault-tolerant control and task planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles.