Special Section on Control Theory Fundamentals of Multi-Agent Systems

Editors:
David Casbeer
Air Force Research Laboratory
United States
david.casbeer@afrl.af.mil

Dejan Milutinović
University of California, Santa Cruz
United States
dejan@ucsc.edu

Tansel Yucelen
University of South Florida
United States
yucelen@lacis.team

Submission Window: 15 Feb 2025 – 1 May 2025

As technology develops to allow integration of mobility, computing, and communication on single platforms, we have entered a new era in which teams of agents, physical robots, or sets of control laws interact with each other to influence their states, motions or actions to cooperatively perform tasks in an array of civilian and military applications. The topics of this special section are control theory and experimental results addressing the emergence of desirable outcomes in multi-agent, robotic, or complex control systems, as well as fundamental limitations for achieving the emergence. Results based on nonlinear control, optimal control, game theory, and other areas of control theory and machine learning are also in the scope of the section.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions addressing two or more agents with a clear relevance to multi-agent systems.

Topics of interest for this special issue include and are not limited to:

  > Distributed control under spatiotemporal constraints
  > Coordination and motion planning for multi-agent systems
  > Coordination and collaboration in heterogeneous multi-agent systems
  > Cooperative manipulation
  > Game theory approaches to multi-vehicle systems
  > Resilient decision-making for autonomous multi-agent systems
  > Machine learning approaches for multi-agent systems
  > Control or machine learning approaches for control action synergies
  > Distributed decision-making
  > Optimization in multi-agent systems

Special Section Schedule:

  > Special Section Submission Window: 1 February 2025 – 1 May 2025
  > Notification of reviews and recommendations: 10 weeks after initial submission
  > Final notification of regular papers: 20 weeks after initial submission
  > Manuscript publication on IEEE Xplore: 24 weeks after initial submission
  > Review process starts at time of manuscript submission

Submission Site: https://css.paperplaza.net/journals/ojcs/scripts/login.pl
Length: 10-15 pages, not including references. Justification of longer papers is required.
Discounts: The first 10 published papers in this volume of the special section are eligible to receive a 50% discount on article processing charges (APCs).

Guest Senior Editors

Name: David Casbeer
Affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

Name: Dejan Milutinović
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Name: Tansel Yucelen
Affiliation: University of South Florida, United States

Guest Associate Editors

Name: David Casbeer
Affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

Name: K. Merve Dogan
Affiliation: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States

Name: Solmaz S. Kia
Affiliation: University of California, Irvine, United States

Name: Ahmet T. Koru
Affiliation: University of Texas at Arlington, United States

Name: Dejan Milutinović
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Name: Pavankumar Tallapragada
Affiliation: Indian Insitute of Science, India

Name: Alexander Von Moll
Affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

Name: Isaac Weintraub
Affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

Name: Tansel Yucelen
Affiliation: University of South Florida, United States

Name: Minghui Zhu
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, United States