Reference

References of Dynamics and Formation of Multi-Agent Systems

Dissertation:

Paper:

Motivations from Biological Behaviors and Motions

Tamas Vicsek, Andras Czirok, Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen, and Ofer Shochet, ''Novel type of phase transition in a system of self-driven particles,'' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 75, No. 6, , pp. 1226-1229, Aug 7, 1995 (PDF)
Pete Seiler, Aniruddha Pant, and Karl Hedrick, ''Analysis of bird formations,'' in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 118-123, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, December 2002 (PDF)
K.M. Passino, ''Biomimicry of bacterial foraging for distributed optimization and control,'' IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 52-67, June 2002 (PDF) (10/10/04)
D.J. DeRosier, ''The turn of the screw: The bacterial flagellar motor,'' Cell, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 17-20, Apr. 1998 (PDF) (10/10/04)
R. Losick, D. Kaiser, ''Why and how bacteria communicate,'' Scientific American, Vol. 276, No. 2, pp. 68-73, Feb. 1997 (PDF) (10/10/04)
H.C. Berg, ''Motile behavior of bacteria,'' Physics Today, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 24-29, Jan. 2000 (PDF) (10/10/04)
T.-M. Yi, Y. Huang, M.I. Simon, and J. Doyle, ''Robust perfect adaption in bacterial chemotaxis through integral feedback control,'' Proc. of National Academy of Sciences of USA (PNAS), Vol. 77, No. 9, pp. 4649-4653, Apr. 2000 (PDF) (10/10/04)
A. Stevens, ''A stochastic cellular automation modeling gliding and aggregation of myxobacteria,'' SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 172-182, 2000 (PDF) (10/10/04)

Motivations: Simulations of Attraction and Repulsion

David C. Brogan and Jessica K. Hodgins, ''Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics,'' Autonomous Robots, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 137-153, 1997 (PDF)
G. Flierl, D. Grunbaum, S. Levin, and D. Olson, ''From Individuals to Aggregations the Interplay between Behavior and Physics,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 196, pp. 397-454, Feb. 1999 (PDF)
A. Mogilner, L. Edelsein-Keshet, L. Bent, A. Spiros, ''Mutual interactions, potentials, and individual distance in a social aggregation,'' Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 353-389, Sep. 2003 (PDF)
J.H. Reif and H. Wang, ''Social potential fields: A distributed behavioral control for autonomous robots,'' Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 171-194, May 1999 (PDF) (10/10/04, 10/25/04)

String and Mesh Stability:

W.S. Levine and M. Athans, ''On the optimal error regulation of a string of moving vehicles,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 355-361, July 1966 (PDF)
D. Swaroop and J.K. Hedrick, ''String stability of interconnected systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 349-357, March 1996 (PDF)
A. Pant, P. Seiler, and J.K. Hedrick, ''Mesh stability of look-ahead interconnected systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 403-407, Feb. 2002 (PDF)

Formation:

M. Egerstedt and X. Hu, ''Formation constrained multi-agent control,'' IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 947-951, Dec. 2001 (PDF)
J.P. Desai, J.P. Ostrowski, and V. Kumar, ''Modeling and control of formations of nonholonomic mobile robots,'' IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 905-908, Dec. 2001 (PDF)
D.M. Stipanovic, G. Inalhan, R. Teo, and C.J. Tomlin, ''Decentralized overlapping control of a formation of unmanned aerial vehicles,'' Automatica, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 1285-1296, Aug. 2004 (PDF)
A. Jadbabaie, Jie Lin, and Stephen A. Morse, ''Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, \ Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 988-1001, June 2003 (PDF)
Andrey V. Savkin, ''Coordinated collective motion of groups of autonomous mobile robots: analysis of Vicsek's model,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 981-983, June 2004 (PDF)
Shahab Sheikholeslam, and Charles A. Desoer, ''Control of interconnected nonlinear dynamical systems: The platoon problem,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 806-810, June 1992 (PDF)
S.S. Stankovic, M.J. Stanojevic, and D.D. Siljak, ''Decentralized overlapping control of a platoon of vehicles,'' IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 816-832, Sep. 2000 (PDF)
Jonathan R. T. Lawton, Randal W. Beard, and Brett J. Young, ''A Decentralized Approach to Formation Maneuvers,'' IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 933-941, Dec. 2003 (PDF)
P. Ogren, M. Egerstedt, and X. Hu, ''A Control Lyapunov Function Approach to Multiagent Coordiantion,'' IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 847-851, Oct. 2002 (PDF)
P. Ogren, E. Fiorelli, and N.E. Leonard, ''Cooperative Control of Mobile Sensor Networks: Adaptive Gradient Climbing in a Distributed Environment,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1292-1302, Aug. 2004 (PDF)
I. Suzuki and M. Yamashita, ''Distributed anonymous mobile robots: formation of geometric patterns,'' SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1347-1363, Mar.-Apr. 1999 (PDF) (10/10/04)
J.A. Fax and R.M. Murray, ''Information flow and cooperative control of vehicle formations,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1465-1476, Sep. 2004 (PDF) (10/10/04)
R. Olfati-Saber and R.M. Murray, ''Consensus problems in networks of agents with switching topology and time-delays,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1520-1533, Sep. 2004 (PDF) (10/10/04)

Biological Groups, Swarms, Flocking:

Y. Liu and K.M. Passino, ''Stable social foraging swarms in a noisy environment,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 30-44, Jan. 2004 (PDF) (10/10/04)
Y. Liu, K.M. Passino and M. Polycarpou, ''Stability analysis of one-dimensional asynchronous swarms,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 48, No. 10, pp. 1848-1854, Oct. 2003 (PDF) (10/10/04)
V. Gazi and K.M. Passino, ''Stability analysis of swarms,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 692-697, Apr. 2003 (PDF) (10/10/04)

Architecture:

Randal W. Beard, Jonathan Lawton, and Fred Y. Hadaegh, ''A Coordination Architecture for Spacecraft Formation Control,'' IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 777-790, Nov. 2001 (PDF)

Communication issues:

Y. Liu, K.M. Passino, and M.M. Polycarpou, ''Stability analysis of M-dimensional asynchronous swarms with a fixed communication topology,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 76-95, Jan. 2003 (PDF)
John Lygeros, Datta N. Godbole, and Mireille Broucke, ''A Fault Tolerant Control Architecture for Automated Highway Systems,'' IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 205-219, Mar. 2000 (PDF)
Datta N. Godbole, Jon Lygeros, Ekta Singh, A. Deshpande, and Antonia E. Lindsey, ''Communication Protocols for a Fault-Tolerant Automated Highway System,'' IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 787-800, Sep. 2000 (PDF)
L.A. Montestruque and P. Antsaklis, ''Stability of model-based networked control systems with time-varying transmission times,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1562-1572, Sep. 2004 (PDF) (10/10/04)
K. Li and J. Baillieul, ''Robust quantization for digital finite communication bandwidth (DFCB) control,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1573-1584, Sep. 2004 (PDF) (10/10/04)
N. Elia, ''When bode meets shannon: control-oriented feedback communication schemes,'' IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1477-1488, Sep. 2004 (PDF) (10/10/04)

Intelligent Transportaion Systems:

R.E. Fenton and R.J. Mayhan, ''Automated highway studies at The Ohio State University--An overview,'' IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 100-113, Feb. 1991 (PDF) (not available)
J.G. Bender, ''An overview of systems studies of automated highway systems,'' IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 82-99, Feb. 1991 (PDF) (not available)
D. Swaroop and J.K. Hedrick, ''Constant spacing strategies for platooning in automated highway systems,'' ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control Vol. 121, pp. 462-470, 1999 (PDF) (not available)
D. Swaroop, J.K. Hedrick, C.C. Chen, and P. Ioannou, ''A comparison of spacing and headway control laws for automatically controller vehicles,'' Vehicle System Dynamics, Vol. 23, pp. 597-625, 1994 (PDF) (not available)
S. Darbha and K.R. Rajagopal, ''Intelligent cruise control systems and traffic flow stability,'' Transportation Research C, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 329-352, Dec. 1999 (PDF) (not available)
J.K. Hedrick and D. Swaroop, ''Dynamic coupling in vehicles under automatic control,'' Vehicle System Dynamics, Vol. 23, pp. 209-220, 1994 (PDF) (not available)

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