Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization Proceedings of the
Across the globe, the past several years have seen a tremendous increase in the role of cooperative autonomous systems. The field of cooperative control and optimization has established itself as a part of many different scientific disciplines (military s
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Michael J. Hirsch, Panos M. Pardalos, Robert Murphey, Don Grundel (Eds.)
Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization
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Series Advisory Board F. Allgöwer, P. Fleming, P. Kokotovic, A.B. Kurzhanski, H. Kwakernaak, A. Rantzer, J.N. Tsitsiklis
Editors Dr. Michael J. Hirsch
Dr. Robert Murphey GNC Branch, Munitions Directorate AFRL 101 W. Eglin Blvd., Ste. 331 Eglin AFB, FL 32542 USA Email: [email protected]
Raytheon, Inc. P.O. Box 12248 St. Petersburg, FL 33733 USA Email: [email protected]
Dr. Panos M. Pardalos Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Florida P.O. Box 116596 Gainesville, FL 32611 USA Email: [email protected]
Dr. Don Grundel AAC/ENA 101 W. Eglin Blvd., Ste. 383 Eglin AFB, FL 32542 USA Email: [email protected]
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Preface
Optimal control of cooperative systems continues to be at the forefront of research initiatives in the military sciences. Recently, cooperative system research has expanded from the military domain to other engineering disciplines, including drug design and disaster recovery. While there exist many powerful techniques for optimal cooperative control problems, this area is still considered one of the most difficult in the applied sciences. Thus, there must be continual improvements and new insight directed to the modeling and analysis of optimal cooperative control problems. This present volume, as well as volumes from previous years, clearly illustrate novel solutions from some of the best and brightest optimal cooperative control researchers. This volume represents the most recent in a series of publications discussing recent research an
