Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science
              Volume              3362006
Group Coordination and Cooperative Control Editors:

• Kristin Y. Pettersen,
• Jan Tommy Gravdahl,
• Henk Nijmeijer
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ISBN: 978-3-540-33468-2 (Print) 978-3-540-33469-9  (Online)

About this book
The topics of Group Coordination and Cooperative Control are currently attracting considerable interest. With proper coordination, the motion of a group of relatively simple and inexpensive agents can cover a larger operational area and achieve complex tasks exceeding the abilities of a single agent. This enables applications such as teams of robots for de-mining operations, aerospace formation flying for survey, fleets of AUVs for oceanographic mapping, and ships doing coordinated towing operations.
Inspired by the progress in the field, a Workshop on Group Coordination and Cooperative Control was organised in Tromsø, Norway, 2006 to focus on theoretic challenges raised by group coordination and cooperation, and lay a foundation for future research.
This volume contains the contributions of the workshop. The book covers a wide range of subjects within the area of group coordination and cooperative control, and forms a valuable and up-to-date text on the newer trends in group coordination and cooperative control.