One of the main practical problems on cooperative robots is the complexity of integrating a large amount of expensive velocity/force sensors. In this paper, the control of cooperative robots using only joint measurements is considered to manipulate an object firmly. Experimental results are shown. Copyright c ©2005 IFAC

This paper proposes a new motivation for information sharing in a decentralized channel consisting of a single manufacturer and two competing retailers. The manufacturer provides a common product to the retailers at the same wholesale price. Both retailers add their own values to the product and distribute it to consumers. Factors such as retail prices, values added to the product, and local ad...

A key problem in cooperative control is the convergence to a common value of the systems, which is called the consensus or agreement problem. Among recent results in cooperative control of multi-agent dynamic systems, the method used can be categorized in either graph theory or matrix theory based techniques, and the agent dynamics is either a single/double integrator or a linear system transfo...

The theory of agreement or consensus problems for multi-agent systems has emerged as a challenging new area of research in recent years. It is a basic yet fundamental problem in decentralized control of networks of dynamic agents and has attracted great attention of researchers. This is partly due to its broad applications in cooperative control of unmanned air vehicles, formation control of mo...

This paper studies the application of nonlinear cooperative control theory to the attitude synchronization problem. To this end, explicit conditions, in terms of vector nonlinear differential inequalities, is presented firstly to ensure both the Lyapunov stability and asymptotically cooperative stability for a certain class of heterogeneous nonlinear system. Then, decentralized control algorith...

This paper presents a novel decentralized control design method for spatially interconnected systems with external disturbances and model uncertainties. The uncertainties in both local subsystems and their interconnections are considered. Sufficient conditions are presented for the stability of spatially interconnected systems with guaranteed performance. The condition for the existence of dece...

We propose a new Markov team decision model to the decentralized control of cooperative multi-agent systems with imperfect communication. Informational classes capture system’s communication semantics and uncertainties about transmitted information and stochastic transmission models, including delayed and lost messages, summarize characteristics of communication devices and protocols. This mode...

We study the coordination of actions and the allocation of pro…t in distribution chains under decentralized control. We consider distribution chains in which a single supplier supplies goods for replenishment of stocks of several retailers who, in turn, sell these goods to their own separate markets. The goal of the supplier and the retailers is to maximize their individual pro…ts. Since the op...