Abstract
The Cooperative Control of Multiagent Systems course will illustrate the various attributes needed in such systems and the complexity inherent to the design. Cooperative systems are currently limited in capacity and in availability, partly due to this so-called complexity and to the multifaceted nature of design and analysis. This course will focus on the well-known problem of multiagent path planning, with brief discussions of advanced techniques for formation flight health management. The optimization problem and its solution will be cast in the framework of dynamic programming and Markov decision processes, typical of problems of optimization under uncertainty. A discussion of the results of numerical simulations, integrating decision-making with closed-loop dynamics of the air vehicles, for both formation flight and path planning, will conclude the course.

Educational Course Subject Areas
Robotics & Automation ,  Artificial Intelligence ,  Aerospace

Keywords
Cooperative Control ,  Multiagent Systems ,  Path Planning ,  Control ,  Unmanned vehicle ,  Urban Operation ,  Markov Decision Process ,  Formation Flight ,  Cooperative Health Management ,  Fault Detection ,  Dynamic Programming