Cooperative Control for Multi-Agent Systems in Target Recognition and Localization

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, with the rapid developments of sensor technology, computer technology, intelligent information processing technology and control theories and methods, target recognition and localization in multi-agent systems (MASs) has become a hot topic due to its widespread practical application, such as in unmanned aerial vehicle formation, search and rescue, environment monitoring, target tracking and so on. In particular, some technologies that require global information are not applicable when the targets are in a communication-constrained environment, such as underwater, indoors, on forest farms and in mountainous areas. Therefore, distributed cooperative control, in which only locally sensed and communicated information is used, has become a cutting-edge research focus in this field. Regarding the aim to achieve accurate target recognition and location while making control behavior with the characteristics of low cost, high performance and flexibility, and strong anti-interference ability, the question of how to design more advanced distributed cooperative control methods for MASs has great significance in current theoretical research and practical applications. In addition, as the targets that need to be recognized and located have become faster and more hidden, and the space of recognition and localization has become larger, cooperative control for MASs in target recognition and localization has become more challenging to design and analyze.

Dr. Yang Liu
Guest Editor

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• multi-agent systems
• cooperative control
• target recognition and localization
• distributed control