this paper deals with leader-following and leaderless consensus problems of high-order multi-input/multi-output (mimo) multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics in the presence of uncertain external disturbances. the agents may have different dynamics and communicate together under a directed graph. a distributed adaptive method is designed for both cases. the structures of the contro...

Humanitarian organizations pre-position relief items in pre-disaster and distribute them to the affected areas in post-disaster. Improper planning of emergency operations causes more deaths in post-disaster. In this paper, the problem of relief item pre-positioning and multi-period distribution planning is addressed considering lateral transhipment among distribution centres to improve the effi...

A new algorithm is proposed for computing locally the linearizing output of single-input and multi-input nonlinear affine system. The algorithm modifies the extended Goursat normal form to iteratively obtain the successive integrations of one dimensional distributions of control system. The algorithm takes ideas from both vector field approach of feedback linearization and exterior differential...