Distributed Control, Optimization, and Game of UAV Swarm Systems

Dear Colleagues,

UAV swarm systems can also be named as 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 has been a hot research topic in many scientific communities, especially the control and robotics communities. How to design the controller or protocol using only neighboring relative information is the main challenge. Distributed control, optimization, and game of UAV swarm systems is promising due to that the emerging behavior has the features of 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 obtain sound results on this topic.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about distributed control, optimization, and game of UAV swarm systems. The journal and the special issue does not consider the publication of manuscripts related to military operations/applications or that have any explicit reference to military organization.

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. Yongzhao Hua
Dr. Jianglong Yu
Dr. Chao Sun
Guest Editors

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• UAV swarm systems
• distributed control
• formation control
• distributed optimization
• intelligent motion planning
• swarm game
• distributed nash equilibrium seeking