Robot Swarms: Dynamics and Control

This chapter provides a brief overview of modeling and control of multi-robot systems or simply robot swarms, from a dynamics and control perspective. First some commonly used agent dynamic models are described and some swarm coordination and control problems are presented. Then, commonly used control design approaches are summarized and some related swarm robotic applications are discussed. The chapter provides an extensive list of references to help the readers find detailed information on most recent key studies in the field.