ABSTRACT
Cooperative control of swarm systems has received significant attention from both scientific and engineering communities in past two decades. Formation tracking control of swarm systems is an important technical support and approach for the emergence of swarm intelligence in the motion control level, and has practical potentials in numerous fields, such as cooperative surveillance with unmanned aerial vehicles, coordinated detection with unmanned ground vehicles, distributed space exploration with satellites, and so on. In this chapter, the backgrounds and motivations of formation tracking control for heterogeneous swarm systems are given firstly. Then, literature reviews on formation control of swarm systems are presented. Key problems and challenges to be investigated in this book are provided. Finally, the main contents and outline of this book are introduced.
