Guest editorial special issue on cooperative control of multi-agents systems: Theory and applications

Multi-agent systems arise from modeling complex systems such as school of fish, flocking of birds, mobile sensor networks, formation of unmanned flight vehicles, smart grids etc. A multi-agent system consists of a group of agents. Each agent can be viewed as a subsystem of the multi-agent system. The behavior of a multi-agent system is not only determined the dynamics of each subsystem, but also by the network topology of the whole system. The multi-agent system is a challenging research area and has wide applications. The aim of this special issue is to solicit and report the latest developments in the study of multi-agent systems.