Cooperative Networks : Control and Optimization

by Pardalos, Panos; Grundel, Don; Murphey, Robert A.; Prokopyev, Oleg

• ISBN13: 9781847204530
• ISBN10: 1847204538
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-08
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Summary

Cooperative networks have gained a tremendous amount of attention over the last several years because of their existence not only in biological, social and economic arenas, but because of direct applications in many more areas such as communications, robotics and military sciences. This volume reflects a cross-fertilization of ideas from a broad set of disciplines and creativity from a diverse array of scientific and engineering research. While the benefits of networks in general have been recognized for quite some time, the idea of cooperative networks has several novel implications. Because distributed processing by heterogeneous nodes promises significant increases in system capability, performance and efficiency, research has intensified with a breadth of promising applications. Topics in this volume include networks of unmanned vehicles in uncertain environments, networks subject to eavesdropping and jamming, optimal node task-allocation, network complexity analysis, cooperative search involving multiple unmanned vehicles, and cooperative communications in ad-hoc networks, optimal control and optimization in man-in-the-loop scenarios. A broad array of readers, including faculty, graduate students and researchers interested in optimization, computer science, engineering, the social and behavioral sciences and related applications in cooperative systems will find this volume of great value.

Table of Contents

Token-based approach for scalable team coordination

Consensus controllability for coordinated multi-agent systems

Decentralized cooperative optimization for systems coupled through the constraints

Consensus building in cooperative control with information feedback

Levy flights in robot swarm control and optimization

Eavesdropping and jamming communication networks

Network algorithms for the dual of the constrained shortest path problem

Towards an irreducible theory of complex systems

Complexity of a system as a key to its optimization

GRASP with path-relinking for the cooperative communication problem on ad hoc networks

Optimal control of an ATR module - equipped MAV/human operator team

An investigation of a dynamic sensor-motion strategy

Market based adaptive task allocations for autonomous agents

Cooperative persistent surveillance search algorithms using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles

Social networks for effective teams

Optimization approaches for vision-based path planning for autonomous micro-air vehicles in urban environments

Cooperative stabilization and tracking for linear dynamic systems

Index

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