Emerging Applications of Distributed Cooperative Control

The book presents emerging applications of cooperative control in communication systems, physics systems, and multi-robotic systems. This book develops new cooperative control methodologies tailored to real world applications in various domains, which include semi-conductor laser arrays, mobile sensor networks, and multi-robotic systems. The authors show that advanced control technologies can make a significant impact in addressing challenging issues facing the human society, such as high energy systems, and oil spill monitoring.