Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 586
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAV; cooperative control; distributed optimization; game theory and NE seeking; security and resilience
Interests: reach-avoid differential games; neuro-symbolic stochastic games; multi-agent reinforcement learning
Interests: resilient control of swarm system; security for cyber–physical systems; fault-tolerant control
Interests: cooperative control; intelligent decision-making; task allocation and trajectory planning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue of Drones on “Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems (2nd Edition)”.
UAV swarm systems can also be named multi-UAV systems consisting of multiple UAVs with neighboring interactions and have broad potential applications in various areas, such as intelligent transportation, disaster rescue, and cooperative detection. Distributed control, optimization, and game of UAV swarm systems have been a hot research topic in many scientific communities, especially the control and robotics communities. The main challenge is designing the controller or protocol using only neighboring relative information. Distributed control, optimization, and game of UAV swarm systems are promising because the emerging behavior features low cost, high scalability and flexibility, great robustness, and easy maintenance. Motivated by the facts stated above, more and more researchers are devoting themselves to obtaining sound results on this topic.
This Special Issue aims to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about distributed control, optimization, and game of UAV swarm systems.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Distributed control;
- Formation control;
- Distributed optimization;
- Intelligent motion planning;
- Game of UAV swarm systems;
- Distributed Nash equilibrium seeking.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Zhi Feng
Dr. Rui Yan
Dr. Yishi Liu
Dr. Xiaoduo Li
Dr. Qing Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAV swarm systems
- distributed control
- formation control
- distributed optimization
- intelligent motion planning
- swarm game
- distributed Nash equilibrium seeking
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