MagdiSadek Mahmoud - Control Design of Multiagent Discrete-Time Systems

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In our academic career, we have benefited from listening, discussing, and collaborating with several colleagues across the globe. Therefore, the various topics discussed in this book have constituted an integral part of our academic research investigations in the Distributed Control Group (DCG) at KFUPM. In writing this volume, we took the approach of referring within the text to papers and/or books from which I learned some concepts, ideas, and methods. We further complemented this by adding some remarks and notes within and at the end of each chapter to shed some light on other related results. To this end, we apologize in advance in case we committed injustice and assure all of the colleagues that any mistake was definitely unintentional.

This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in control systems design including robust, reliable, and resilient methods with the hope to provide a guided tour through discrete-time multiagent system results and a source of new research problems. The senior author had the privilege of teaching graduate courses on distributed control, multiagent systems, and networked control systems at different institutions including Cairo University (Egypt), University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UK), Kuwait University (Kuwait), KFUPM (Saudi Arabia). The course notes, updated and expanded over years, were instrumental in generating different chapters of this book, and valuable comments and suggestions as well as several detailed critiques made by graduate students were greatly helpful. For the development of the book, the authors are immensely pleased for many stimulating discussions and interactions with colleagues, students, and friends worldwide which have definitely enriched my knowledge and experience.

We would appreciate any comments, questions, criticisms, or corrections that readers may take the trouble of communicating to msmahmoud@kfupm.edu.sa or magdisadekmahmoud@gmail.com.

For over a decade, the proposed use of multiagent systems (MAS) to address challenges in engineering disciplines has been reported in IEEE transactions and conference papers. MAS technology is now being developed for a range of applications including diagnostics [].