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This chapter overviews recent research results in distributed multi-agent coordination. Distributed coordination of multiple autonomous agents, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), has been a very active research topic in the systems and controls society. The recent research results in distributed multi-agent coordination are roughly categorized as consensus, distributed formation control, distributed optimization, distributed task assignment, distributed estimation and control, and intelligent coordination. A short discussion is given to propose several future research directions and problems that deserve further investigation.
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Ren, W., Cao, Y. (2011). Overview of Recent Research in Distributed Multi-agent Coordination. In: Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks. Communications and Control Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-169-1_2
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