A Brief Overview of Flocking Control for Multi-agent Systems

In this paper, we firstly introduce two main models based on Boid Model: Vicsek Model and Couzin Model. Then, the more authoritative and representative flocking control algorithms by Olfati-Saber and Tanner are proposed. Moreover, more extensive researches of flocking algorithm are carried out. Finally, a short discussion is included to summarize the existing research and to propose several problem.

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