Control of Multi-agent Systems: Theory and Simulations with Python

This textbook teaches control theory for multi-agent systems. Readers will learn the basics of linear algebra and graph theory, which are then developed to describe and solve multi-agent control problems. The authors address important and fundamental problems including:

• consensus control;

• coverage control;

• formation control;

• distributed optimization; and

• the viral spreading phenomenon.

Students' understanding of the core theory for multi-agent control is enhanced through worked ex...