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1. Introduction

Author : Hossein Rastgoftar

Published in: Continuum Deformation of Multi-Agent Systems

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Formation control has received considerable attentions during the past two decades. Some applications like formation flight, transportation engineering, air traffic control, gaming, maneuvering in a hazardous environment, and environmental sampling have been listed in literature for formation control. Formation control in a multi-agent system (MAS) has many advantages [91]. For example, keeping formation increases robustness and efficiency of a system reduces the cost of a system, and results in better fault tolerance and capability of reconfiguration [6, 8, 9, 19, 140].

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Title: Introduction
Author: Hossein Rastgoftar
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Continuum Deformation of Multi-Agent Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-41593-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-41594-9

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41594-9_1