This book highlights cooperative coverage control approaches of
multi-agent systems in uncertain environments and their applications in
various fields. A novel theoretical formulation of multi-agent coverage
is proposed to fulfill the coverage task via divide-and-conquer scheme.
By taking workload partition and sweeping operations simultaneously, a
distributed sweep coverage algorithm of multi-agent systems is developed
to cooperatively complete the workload on the given region, and its
input-to-state stability is guaranteed in theory. Moreover, the coverage
performance is evaluated by estimating the error between the actual
coverage time and the optimal time. Three application scenarios are
presented to demonstrate the advantages of cooperative coverage control
approaches in missile interception, intelligent transportation systems
and environment monitoring, respectively.