Ziyang Meng - Modelling, Analysis, and Control of Networked Dynamical Systems

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Rapid developments in digital systems, communication, and sensing technologies have led to the emergence of networked dynamical systems. These systems consist of a large number of interconnected subsystems (agents), which are required to cooperate in order to achieve a desirable global objective. Potential applications for such networked systems can be found in biology, social science, computer science, and engineering. As many applications are components of our infrastructure, how to control and coordinate agents in such networked systems is of great interest.

The revolutionary idea is that by carefully designing distributed control laws, a group of autonomous agents can achieve a collective task by cooperatively and locally exchanging information. Interactions are local in the sense that an agent can only interact with a subset of agents. Under such a distributed framework, this book aims to provide some recent results on modelling, analysis, control, and applications of networked dynamical systems. In particular, from a theoretical perspective, it is valuable to analyze some fundamental properties of emergent behaviors of networked dynamical systems. Typical emergent behaviors are observed in circuit networks, social networks, and biological networks. Precise mathematical models are introduced to reconstruct these group behaviors including synchronizing to a time-varying trajectory, clustering into different groups, flocking with alignment, separation, and cohesion properties. From a methodology perspective, it is essential to model networked dynamical systems in a realistic environment and to properly design their controls such that the overall objective is achieved even when there are only limited resources available. Systems with a variety of constraints are considered in this book. Typical constraints include those on dynamics, energy, communication, sensing, and control. From an application perspective, it is indispensable to implement the proposed distributed control algorithms into practical systems and adjust them depending on various engineering requirements. Typical applications include multiple unmanned airborne vehicles, spacecraft formation flying, heavy-duty vehicle platooning, smart grid, and social networks.

This book consists of four parts. The first part presents preliminaries in Chap. , where the cooperative attitude control problem of spacecraft formation flying, the rendezvous problem of multi-robot systems, and the energy resource coordination problem of power network are studied, respectively.

We would like to thank our colleagues and collaborators for their contributions to the works that form the basis of this book. In particular, we are indebted to Professors Wei Ren, Zongli Lin, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Yiguang Hong, Ming Cao, Brian D. O. Anderson, and Sandra Hirche for many useful discussions and professional advice. We thank Mr. Lei Xu and Dr. Yi Huang for their useful discussions and proofreading. We also acknowledge all members of ACCESS Linnaeus Centre at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Especially, we are thankful to Guodong Shi, Junfeng Wu, Kun Liu, Jie Lu, Weiguo Xia, Liquan Fu, Kin Cheong Sou, Xiangyu Meng, and Kezhi Li for their contributions and companionship during that wonderful time in Sweden. We would also like to thank our editors Professor Tamer Baar and Miss Dana Knowles for their help and professionalism. Finally, we acknowledge the support of our research by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants 61833009, 61873140, 61991403, and 61991400, Beijing Natural Science Foundation under grant JQ20013, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, and the Swedish Research Council. In addition, we acknowledge IEEE and Elsevier for granting us the permission to reuse materials from our publications copyrighted by these publishers in this book.