This paper presents three trajectory tracking control strategies for unicycle‐type robots based on a leader‐followers scheme. The leader robot converges asymptotically to a smooth trajectory, while the follower robots form an undirected open‐chain configuration at the same time. It is also shown that the orientation angles of all the robots converge to the same value. The...

We describe the service-for-prestige theory of leadership, which proposes that voluntary leader-follower relations evolved in humans via a process of reciprocal exchange that generated adaptive benefits for both leaders and followers. We propose that although leader-follower relations first emerged in the human lineage to solve problems related to information sharing and social coordination, th...

Multi-leader multi-follower games are a class of hierarchical games in which a collection of leaders compete in a Nash game constrained by the equilibrium conditions of another Nash game amongst the followers. The resulting equilibrium problem with equilibrium constraints is complicated by nonconvex agent problems and therefore providing tractable conditions for existence of global or even loca...

This paper presents an integrated guidance and control design for formation flight using a combination of adaptive output feedback and backstepping techniques without an underlying time-scale separation assumption. We formulate the problem as an adaptive output feedback control problem for a line-of-sight (LOS) based formation flight configuration of a leader and a follower aircraft. The design...

The intent of this research is to generate a set of non-dominated policies from which one of two agents (the leader) can select a most preferred policy to control a dynamic system that is also affected by the control decisions of the other agent (the follower). The problem is described by an infinite horizon, partially observed Markov game (POMG). The actions of the agents are selected simultan...

Handling Editor: Ronald Riggio Authentic leadership theory posits that the authenticity of leaders and followers is influenced by their personal histories. Attachment theory states that individuals have internal working models that are influenced by both early developmental experiences and relationships later in life. These models guide how people interact with close others and tend toward thre...

A basic model of commitment is to convert a game in strategic form into a “leadership game” where one player commits to a strategy to which the other player chooses a best response, with payoffs as in the original game. This paper studies subgame perfect equilibria of such leadership games for the mixed extension of a finite game, where the leader commits to a mixed strategy. In a generic two-p...

<p>This paper studies the containment control problem of leader-follower configuration in a multi-agents system included with type nonlinearity such as Lipschitz respect to continuous-time and directed spanning forest communication network topology. A state feedback controller is designed proposed theory Laplacian structure where it utilizes relative information each agent. The ensures th...

This article is concerned with the study of scalability in nonlinear heterogeneous networks affected by communication delays and disturbances. After formalizing notion scalability, we give two sufficient conditions to assess this property. Our results can be used leader-follower leaderless allow us consider case when desired configuration system changes over time. We show how our turned into de...