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1. W. Ren and Y. Cao, Distributed
Coordination of Multi-agent Networks, Communications and Control
Engineering Series, Springer-Verlag, London, 2011
(ISBN: 978-0-85729-168-4). Springer
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2. W. Ren and R. W. Beard, Distributed
Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control, Communications and Control
Engineering Series, Springer-Verlag, London, 2008
(ISBN: 978-1-84800-014-8). Springer
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Book Chapters
W. Ren, R. W. Beard, and T. W. McLain, "Coordination Variables and
Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems," Proceedings of the
2003 Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control, Lecture Notes in Control and
Information Sciences series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
2005, vol. 309, pp. 171--188, PDF. Springer
Link
Surveys / Overview Papers
Y. Cao,
W. Yu, W. Ren, and G. Chen, “An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of
Distributed Multi-agent Coordination,” IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 9, no. 1, February 2013, pp.
427-438. PDF. Arxiv version: PDF.
W.
Ren, R. W. Beard, and E. M. Atkins, "Information Consensus in Multivehicle
Cooperative Control," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 27, No.
2, April, 2007, pp. 71-82. PDF.
Journal Publications
- J. Mei, W. Ren, G. Ma, and B. Li,
“Distributed Containment Control for Multiple Unknown Second-order
Nonlinear Systems with Application to Networked Lagrangian
Systems,” IEEE Transactions on
Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1885-1899, Sep
2015.
- Z. Li, Z. Duan, W. Ren, and G. Feng,
“Containment Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Multiple Leaders
of Bounded Inputs Using Distributed Continuous Controllers,” International Journal of Robust and
Nonlinear Control, vol. 25, no. 13, pp. 2101-2121, Sep 2015.
- W. Cao, J. Zhang, and W. Ren, “Leader-Follower
Consensus of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Unknown External Disturbances,”
Systems and Control Letters,
vol. 82, no. 8, pp. 64-70, August 2015.
- Y. Wang, L. Cheng, W. Ren, Z. Hou, and M. Tan, “Seeking Consensus in Networks of
Linear Agents: Communication Noises and Markovian Switching Topologies,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1374-1379, May 2015.
- Z. Li, G. Wen, Z. Duan, and W. Ren, “Designing
Fully Distributed Consensus Protocols for Linear Multi-agent Systems with
Directed Communication Graphs,” IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1152-1157,
April 2015.
- F. Chen, W. Ren, W. Lan, and G. Chen, “Distributed
Average Tracking for Reference Signals with Bounded Accelerations,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 863-869, March 2015.
- F. Chen, G. Feng, L. Liu, and W. Ren, “Distributed
Average Tracking of Networked Euler-Lagrange Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 547-552, February 2015.
- G. Wen, Z. Duan, W. Ren, and G. Chen, “Distributed
consensus of multi-agent systems with general linear node dynamics and
intermittent communications,” International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 24, no. 16, pp.
2438-2457, November 2014.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Finite-time Consensus
for Multi-agent Networks with Unknown Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics,” Automatica,
vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 2648-2656, October 2014.
- D. Yang, W. Ren, and X. Liu, “Fully
Distributed Adaptive Sliding-Mode Controller Design for Containment
Control of Multiple Lagrangian Systems,” Systems and Control Letters, vol.
72, no. 10, pp. 44-52, October 2014.
- W. Chen, X. Li, W. Ren, and C. Wen, “Adaptive
Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Unknown Identical Control Directions
Based on A Novel Nussbaum-Type Function,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 59, no. 7, pp.
1887-1892, July 2014.
- P. Lin and W. Ren, “Constrained Consensus in
Unbalanced Networks with Communication Delays,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 59, no. 3, pp.
775-781, March 2014.
- W. Yu, G. Chen, M. Cao, and W. Ren,
“Delay-induced Consensus and Quasi-Consensus in Multi-agent Dynamical
Systems,” IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers, vol. 60, no. 10, pp.
2679-2687, October 2013.
- Z. Meng, Z. Lin, and W. Ren, “Robust
Cooperative Tracking for Multiple Non-identical Second-order Nonlinear
Systems,” Automatica,
vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 2363-2372, August 2013.
- Z. Li, W. Ren, X. Liu, and L. Xie,
“Distributed Consensus of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Adaptive Dynamic
Protocols,” Automatica,
vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1986-1995, July 2013.
- W. Yu, W. Ren, W. Zheng, G. Chen, and J. Lu,
“Distributed Control Gains Design for Consensus in Multi-agent Systems
with Second-order Nonlinear Dynamics,” Automatica, vol. 49, no. 7,
July 2013, pp. 2107-2115.
- J. Mei, W. Ren, J. Chen, and G. Ma,
“Distributed Adaptive Coordination for Multiple Lagrangian
Systems under a Directed Graph without Using Neighbors’ Velocity
Information,” Automatica,
vol. 49, no. 6, June 2013, pp. 1723-1731.
- J. Mei, W. Ren, and G. Ma, “Distributed
Coordination for Second-order Systems with Nonlinear Dynamics Using only
Relative Position Measurements,” Automatica, vol. 49, no. 5, May 2013, pp. 1419-1427.
- Z. Li, X. Liu, W. Ren, and L. Xie,
“Distributed tracking control for linear multi-agent systems with a leader
of bounded unknown input,” IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 58, no. 2, February 2013, pp.
518-523. PDF.
- K. Liu, G. Xie, W. Ren, and L. Wang,
“Consensus for Multi-agent Systems with Inherent Nonlinear Dynamics under
Directed Topologies,” Systems and
Control Letters, vol. 62, no. 2, February 2013, pp. 152-162. PDF.
- Y. Cao, W. Yu, W. Ren, and G. Chen, “An Overview
of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-agent Coordination,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Informatics, vol. 9, no. 1, February 2013, pp. 427-438. PDF.
- F. Chen, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Distributed
average tracking of multiple time-varying reference signals with bounded
derivatives,” IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 12, December 2012, pp. 3169-3174. PDF.
- Y. Cao, W. Ren, and M. Egerstedt,
“Distributed Containment Control with Multiple Stationary or Dynamic
Leaders in Directed Networks,” Automatica, vol. 48, no. 8, August 2012, pp. 1586-1597.
PDF.
- V. Ghadiok, J. Goldin, and W. Ren, “On the
design and development of attitude stabilization, vision-based navigation,
and aerial gripping for a low-cost quadrotor,” Autonomous Robots, vol. 33, no. 1-2, August 2012, pp. 41-68. PDF.
- H. Zhao, W. Ren, D. Yuan, and J. Chen,
“Distributed Discrete-time Coordinated Tracking with Markovian Switching
Topologies,” Systems and Control
Letters, vol. 61, no. 7, July 2012, pp. 766-772. PDF.
- J. Li, W. Ren, and S. Xu, “Distributed
Containment Control with Multiple Dynamic Leaders for Double-integrator
Dynamics Using Only Position Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 6, June
2012, pp. 1553-1559. PDF.
- J. Mei, W. Ren, and G. Ma, “Distributed
Containment Control for Lagrangian Networks with
Parametric Uncertainties under a Directed Graph,” Automatica, vol. 48, no. 4,
April 2012, pp. 653-659. PDF.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordinated
Tracking with Reduced Interaction via a Variable Structure Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol. 57, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 33-48. PDF.
- Z. Meng, Z. Lin, and W. Ren,
“Leader-follower Swarm Tracking for Networked Lagrange Systems,” Systems and Control Letters, vol.
61, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 117-126. PDF.
- W. Yu, G. Chen, W. Ren, J. Kurths, and W. Zheng, “Distributed higher-order
consensus protocols in multi-agent dynamical systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems Part I: Regular Papers, vol. 58, no. 8, August 2011, pp.
1924-1932. PDF.
- Y. Cao, D. Stuart, W. Ren, and Z. Meng,
“Distributed Containment Control for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles with
Double-integrator Dynamics: Algorithms and Experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems
Technology, vol. 19, no. 4, July 2011, pp. 929-938. PDF.
- Z. Li, X. Liu, P. Lin, and W. Ren,
“Consensus of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Reduced-Order Observer-Based
Protocols,” Systems and Control Letters,
vol. 60, no. 7, July 2011, pp. 510-516. PDF.
- W. Yu, W. Zheng, G. Chen, W. Ren, and J.
Cao, “Second-order Consensus in Multi-agent Dynamical Systems with Sampled
Position Data,” Automatica,
vol. 47, no. 7, July 2011, pp. 1496-1503. PDF.
- J. Mei, W. Ren, and G. Ma, “Distributed
Coordinated Tracking with a Dynamic Leader for Multiple Euler-Lagrange
Systems,” IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 6, June 2011, pp. 1415-1421. PDF.
- P. Lin, K. Qin, Z. Li, and W. Ren,
“Collective Rotating Motions of Second-Order Multi-agent Systems in Three
Dimensional Space,” Systems and
Control Letters, vol. 60, no. 6, June 2011, pp. 365-372. PDF.
- Z. Meng, W. Ren, Y. Cao, and Z. You,
“Leaderless and Leader-following Consensus with Communication and Input
Delays under a Directed Network Topology,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B),
vol. 41, no. 1, February 2011, pp. 75-88. PDF.
- Z. Meng, W. Ren, and Z. You, “Distributed Finite-time Attitude
Containment Control for Multiple Rigid Bodies,” Automatica, vol. 46, no. 12,
December 2010, pp. 2092-2099. PDF.
- Z. Meng, W. Ren, and Z. You, “Decentralised
Cooperative Attitude Tracking Using Modified Rodriguez Parameters Based on
Relative Attitude Information,” International
Journal of Control, vol. 83, no. 12, December 2010, pp. 2427-2739.
PDF.
- F. Chen, W. Ren, and Y. Cao, “Surrounding Control in
Cooperative Agent Networks,” Systems
and Control Letters, vol. 59, no. 11, November 2010, pp. 704-712.
PDF.
- Y. Cao, D. Stuart, and W. Ren, “Co-ordinated Collective
Motion Patterns in a Discrete-time Setting with Experiments,” IET Control Theory and Applications,
vol. 4, no. 11, November 2010, pp. 2579-2591. PDF.
- Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Decentralized Finite-time
Sliding Mode Estimators and Their Applications in Decentralized
Finite-time Formation Tracking,” Systems
and Control Letters, vol. 59, no. 9, September 2010, pp. 522-529.
PDF.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Multi-vehicle Coordination for
Double-integrator Dynamics under Fixed Undirected/Directed Interaction in
a Sampled-data Setting,” International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 20, no. 9, June 2010,
pp. 987-1000. PDF.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Optimal Linear Consensus
Algorithms: An LQR Perspective,”
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B), Vol. 40,
No. 3, June 2010, pp. 819-830. PDF.
- Z. Meng, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Stability and Convergence
Analysis of Multi-Agent Consensus with Information Reuse,” International Journal of Control,
Vol. 83, No. 5, May 2010, pp. 1081-1092. PDF.
- L. Ballard, Y. Cao, and W. Ren, “Distributed
Discrete-time Coupled Harmonic Oscillators with Application to
Synchronized Motion Coordination,” IET
Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 5, May 2010, pp. 806–816.
PDF.
- Z. Meng, W. Yu, and W. Ren, “Discussion on: “Consensus
of Second-Order Delayed Multi-Agent Systems with Leader-Following,” European Journal of Control, Vol.
16, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 200-202 (invited paper). PDF.
- Y. Cao, Y. Li, W. Ren, and Y. Chen, “Distributed
Coordination of Networked Fractional-order Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B),
Vol. 40, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 362-370. PDF.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Multi-agent Consensus Using Both
Current and Outdated States with Fixed and Undirected Interaction,” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic
Systems, Vol. 58, No. 1, April 2010, pp. 95-106 PDF.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Formation Control for
Fractional-order Systems: Dynamic Interaction and Absolute/Relative
Damping,” Systems and Control
Letters, Vol. 59, No. 3-4, March-April 2010, pp. 233-240.
PDF.
- W. Ren, “Distributed Cooperative Attitude
Synchronization and Tracking for Multiple Rigid Bodies,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems
Technology, Vol. 18, No. 2, March 2010, pp. 383-392. PDF.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Sampled-Data Discrete-time
Coordination Algorithms for Double-Integrator Dynamics under Dynamic
Directed Interaction,” International
Journal of Control, Vol. 83, No. 3, March 2010, pp. 506-515. PDF.
- W. Ren, “Consensus Tracking under Directed Interaction
Topologies: Algorithms and Experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 18, No.
1, January 2010, pp. 230-237. PDF.
- Wei Ren, “Distributed Leaderless Consensus Algorithms
for Networked Euler-Lagrange Systems,” International
Journal of Control, Vol. 82, No. 11, November 2009, pp. 2137–2149. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Collective Motion from Consensus with
Cartesian Coordinate Coupling," IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, Vol. 54, No. 6, June 2009, pp. 1330-1335. PDF.
- Yongcan Cao, Wei Ren, and Yan Li, "Distributed
Discrete-time Coordinated Tracking with a Time-varying Reference State and
Limited Communication," Automatica,
Vol. 45, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 1299-1305. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Synchronization of Coupled Harmonic
Oscillators with Local Interaction," Automatica,
vol. 44, no. 12, December 2008, pp. 3195-3200. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "On Consensus Algorithms for
Double-integrator Dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, Vol. 53, No. 6, July 2008, pp. 1503-1509. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Haiyang Chao, William Bourgeous,
Nathan Sorensen, and YangQuan Chen,
"Experimental Validation of Consensus Algorithms for Multivehicle
Cooperative Control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems
Technology, Vol. 16, No. 4, July 2008, pp. 745-752. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Nathan Sorensen, "Distributed
Coordination Architecture for Multi-robot Formation Control," Robotics
and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 324-333, 2008. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Decentralization of Virtual Structures
in Formation Control of Multiple Vehicle Systems via Consensus
Strategies," European Journal of Control, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.
1-11, 2008. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Yongcan Cao, "Simulation and
Experimental Study of Consensus Algorithms for Multiple Mobile Robots with
Information Feedback," Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing,
Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 73-87, 2008. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Ji-Sang Sun, Randal W. Beard, and Timothy W.
McLain, "Experimental Validation of an Autonomous Control System on a
Mobile Robot Platform," IET Control Theory & Applications,
Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 1621-1629, November 2007. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Kevin L. Moore, and YangQuan
Chen, "High-Order and Model Reference Consensus Algorithms in
Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems," ASME Journal of
Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 129, No. 5, pp.
678-688, September 2007. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Multi-vehicle Consensus with a
Time-varying Reference State," Systems & Control Letters,
Vol. 56, No. 7-8, July, 2007, pp. 474-483. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Ella Atkins, "Distributed
Multi-Vehicle Coordinated Control via Local Information Exchange," International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 17, No. 10-11, July,
2007, pp. 1002-1033. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, and Ella Atkins,
"Information Consensus in Multivehicle Cooperative Control:
Collective Group Behavior through Local Interaction," IEEE Control
Systems Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 2, April, 2007, pp. 71-82. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "On Constrained Nonlinear Tracking
Control of a Small Fixed-wing UAV," Journal of Intelligent and
Robotic Systems, Vol. 48, No. 4, April 2007, pp. 525-537. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Consensus Strategies for Cooperative
Control of Vehicle Formations," IET Control Theory &
Applications, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 505-512. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Formation Keeping and Attitude Alignment
for Multiple Spacecraft through Local Interactions," AIAA Journal
of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 2, March-April 2007,
pp. 633-638. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Distributed Attitude Alignment in
Spacecraft Formation Flying," International Journal of Adaptive
Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 21, No. 2-3, March-April, 2007,
pp. 95-113. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Trajectory Tracking Control for a
Miniature Fixed-wing Unmanned Air Vehicle," International Journal
of Systems Science, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2007, pp. 361-369. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Consensus seeking in
multiagent systems under dynamically changing
interaction topologies," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
Vol. 50, No. 5, May 2005, pp. 655-661. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Trajectory Tracking
for Unmanned Air Vehicles with Velocity and Heading Rate
Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology,
vol. 12, no. 5, September, 2004, pp. 706-716. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Formation Feedback
Control for Multiple Spacecraft via Virtual Structures," IEE
Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 151, No. 3, May,
2004, pp. 357-368. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Decentralized Scheme
for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure Approach," AIAA
Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 27, No. 1,
January-February, 2004, pp. 73-82. PDF.
Conference
Papers
- J. Mei, W. Ren, and G. Ma, “Distributed Coordinated
Tracking for Multiple Euler-Lagrange Systems,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Georgia, AL, December
2010 (to appear).
- W. Yu, G. Chen, and W. Ren, “Delay-induced
Quasi-Consensus in Multi-agent Dynamical Systems,” Chinese Control Conference, Beijing, China, July 2010 (to
appear).
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordinated Tracking
via a Variable Structure Approach - Part I: Consensus Tracking,” American Control Conference,
Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 4744-4749.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordinated Tracking
via a Variable Structure Approach - Part II: Swarm Tracking,” American Control Conference,
Baltimore, MD, June 2010, pp. 4750-4755.
- Z. Meng, W. Ren, Y. Cao, and Z. You, “Some Stability
and Boundedness Conditions for Second-order Leaderless and
Leader-following Consensus with Communication and Input Delays,” American Control Conference,
Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 574-579.
- Z. Meng, W. Ren, and Z. You, “Distributed Finite-time
Containment Control for Multiple Lagrangian
Systems,” American Control
Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 2885-2890.
- Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Decentralized Finite-time
Sliding Mode Estimators with Applications to Formation Tracking,” American Control Conference,
Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 4610-4615.
- Y. Cao, D. Stuart, W. Ren, and Z. Meng, “Distributed
Containment Control for Double-integrator Dynamics: Algorithms and
Experiments,” American Control
Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010, pp. 3830-3835.
- F. Chen, W. Ren, and Z. Lin, “Multi-agent Coordination
with Cohesion, Dispersion, and Containment Control,” American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June-July 2010,
pp. 4756-4761.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Containment Control with Multiple
Stationary or Dynamic Leaders under a Directed Interaction Graph,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Shanghai, China, December 2009, pp. 3014-3019.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Distributed Coordination of
Fractional-order Systems with Extensions to Directed Dynamic Networks and
Absolute/Relative Damping,” IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009,
pp. 7125-7130.
- Z. Meng, W. Ren, and Z. You, “Decentralized Cooperative
Attitude Tracking Using Modified Rodriguez Parameters,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Shanghai, China, December 2009, pp. 853-858.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “Sampled-Data Formation Control under
Dynamic Directed Interaction,” American
Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009, pp. 5186-5191.
- Y. Cao and W. Ren, “LQR-based Optimal Linear Consensus
Algorithms,” American Control
Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009, pp. 5204-5209.
- L. Ballard and W. Ren, “Dynamic Formation Algorithms
and Experiments,” The 4th IEEE
Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Xi’an, China,
May 2009, pp. PDF.
- W. Ren, “Collective Motion from Consensus with
Cartesian Coordinate Coupling - Part I: Single-integrator Kinematics,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 2008, pp. 1006-1011. PDF.
- W. Ren, “Collective Motion from Consensus with
Cartesian Coordinate Coupling - Part II: Double-integrator Dynamics,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 2008, pp. 1012-1017. PDF.
- W. Ren and Y. Cao, “Convergence of Sampled-data
Consensus Algorithms for Double-integrator Dynamics,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico,
December 2008, 3965-3970. PDF.
- Y. Cao, Y. Li, W. Ren, and Y. Chen, “Distributed
Coordination Algorithms for Multiple Fractional-order Systems,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 2008, pp. 2920-2925. PDF.
- Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Y. Li, “Distributed Discrete-time
Consensus with a Time-varying Reference State,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu,
HI, August 2008 (Paper No. AIAA 2008-7174). PDF.
- Y. Cao, W. Ren, and Y. Chen "Multi-Agent Consensus
Using Both Current and Outdated States," IFAC World Congress,
Seoul, Korea, July 2008, pp. 2874-2879. PDF.
- H. Chao, M. Baumann, A. Jensens,
Y. Chen, Y. Cao, W. Ren, and M. McKee, "Band-reconfigurable
Multi-UAV-based Cooperative Remote Sensing for Real-time Water Management
and Distributed Irrigation Control," IFAC World Congress,
Seoul, Korea, July 2008, pp. 11744-11749. PDF.
- Larry Ballard and Wei Ren, "Experiments with
Coupled Harmonic Oscillators with Local Interaction," IEEE/ASME
International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Xi'an,
China, July 2008, pp. 716-721. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Consensus Tracking under Directed
Interaction Topologies: Algorithms and Experiments," American
Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008, pp. 742-747. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "On Consensus Algorithms for
Double-integrator Dynamics," IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007, pp. 2295-2300. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Distributed Attitude Synchronization for
Multiple Rigid Bodies with Euler-Lagrange Equations of Motion," IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007,
pp. 2363-2368. PDF.
- Haiyang Chao, YangQuan Chen,
and Wei Ren, "Consensus of Information in Distributed Control of a
Diffusion Process using Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations," IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007, pp. 1441-1446. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Haiyang Chao, William Bourgeous,
Nathan Sorensen, and YangQuan Chen,
"Experimental Implementation and Validation of Consensus Algorithms
on a Mobile Actuator and Sensor Network Platform," IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Montreal,
CA, October 2007, pp. 171-176. PDF.
- Y. Cao, W. Ren, N. Sorensen, L. Ballard, A. Reiter, and
J. Kennedy, “Experiments in Consensus-based Distributed Cooperative
Control of Multiple Mobile Robots,” IEEE International Conference on
Mechatronics and Automation, Harbin, China, August 2007, pp.
2819-2824. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Consensus Seeking in Multi-vehicle
Systems with a Time-varying Reference State," American Control
Conference, New York City, July 2007, pp. 717-722. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Second-order Consensus Algorithm with
Extensions to Switching Topologies and Reference Models," American
Control Conference, New York City, July 2007, pp. 1431-1436. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Synchronized Multiple Spacecraft Rotations:
A Revisit in the Context of Consensus Building," American Control
Conference, New York City, July 2007, pp. 3174-3179. PDF.
- Nathan Sorensen and Wei Ren, "A Unified Formation
Control Scheme with a Single or Multiple Leaders," American
Control Conference, New York City, July 2007, pp. 5412-5418. PDF.
- Yashodhan Tarte, YangQuan Chen, Wei Ren, and Kevin L. Moore,
"Fractional Horsepower Dynamometer - a General Purpose
Hardware-In-The-Loop Real-Time Simulation Platform for Nonlinear Control
Research and Education," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
San Diego, CA, December 2006, pp. 3912-3917. PDF.
- Wei Ren and YangQuan Chen,
"Leaderless Formation Control for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles,"
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit,
Keystone, CO, August 2006, AIAA Paper no. 2006-6069. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Distributed Attitude Consensus among
Multiple Networked Spacecraft," American Control Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, June 2006, pp. 1760-1765. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Consensus Based Formation Control
Strategies for Multi-vehicle Systems," American Control Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, June 2006, pp. 4237-4242. PDF.
- Nathan Sorensen and Wei Ren, "Rendezvous Problem
in Multi-vehicle Systems: Information Relay and Local Information Based
Strategies," IEEE Mountain Workshop on Adaptive and Learning
Systems, Logan, UT, July 2006. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Consensus Building in Multi-vehicle
Systems with Information Feedback," IEEE International Conference
on Mechatronics and Automation, Luoyang, China, June 2006, pp. 37-42.
PDF.
- Haiyang Chao, YangQuan Chen,
and Wei Ren, "A Study of Grouping Effect On Mobile Actuator Sensor
Networks for Distributed Feedback Control of Diffusion Process Using
Central Voronoi Tessellations," IEEE
International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Luoyang,
China, June 2006, pp. 769-774. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Cooperative Control Design Strategies with
Local Interactions," IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing, and
Control, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April
2006. PDF.
- Wei Ren, "Decentralization of Coordination
Variables in Multi-vehicle Systems," IEEE Conference on
Networking, Sensing, and Control, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, April 2006. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Kevin L. Moore, and YangQuan
Chen, "High-order Consensus Algorithms in Cooperative Vehicle
Systems," IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2006. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, and Derek B. Kingston,
"Multi-agent Kalman Consensus with Relative
Uncertainty," American Control Conference, Portland, OR, 2005,
pp. 1865-1870. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, and Ella Atkins, “A Survey of
Consensus Problems in Multi-agent Coordination,” American Control
Conference, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 1859-1864. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Satisficing Approach
to Human-in-the-Loop Safeguarded Control," American
Control Conference, 2005, Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 4923-4928. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Ji-Sang Sun, Randal W. Beard, and Timothy W.
McLain, "Nonlinear Tracking Control for Nonholonomic
Mobile Robots with Input Constraints: An Experimental Study," American Control Conference, 2005,
Portland, OR, 2005, pp. 4985-4990. PDF.
- Derek B. Kingston, Wei Ren, and Randal W. Beard,
"Consensus Algorithms are Input-to-State Stable," American Control Conference, Portland,
OR, 2005, pp. 1686-1690. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Ella Atkins, “Second-order Consensus
Protocols in Multiple Vehicle Systems with Local Interactions”, AIAA
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, San
Francisco, CA, August, 2005, Paper No. AIAA-2005-6238. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Ella Atkins, “Nonlinear Trajectory Tracking
for Fixed Wing Unmanned Air Vehicles via Backstepping
and Parameter Adaptation”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Conference and Exhibit, San Francisco, CA, 2005, Paper No.
AIAA-2005-6196. PDF.
- W. Ren and E. Atkins, "Coordination of Multiple
Micro-Air Vehicles Using Consensus Schemes," AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Arlington, VA, September
2005, Paper No. AIAA-2005-7067. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Constrained
Nonlinear Tracking Control For Small Fixed-wing
Unmanned Air Vehicles," American Control Conference, Boston,
MA, 2004, pp. 4663-4668. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Consensus of
Information Under Dynamically Changing Interaction Topologies," American
Control Conference, Boston, MA, 2004, pp. 4939-4944. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "CLF-based Tracking
Control for UAV Kinematic Models with Saturation Constraints," IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, 2003, pp. 3924-3929.
PDF.
- Derek Kingston, Randal Beard, Timothy McLain, Michael
Larsen, and Wei Ren, "Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Small
Fixed Wing UAVs," AIAA 2nd Unmanned Unlimited Systems,
Technologies, and Operations--Aerospace, Land, and Sea Conference and
Workshop & Exhibit, San Diego, CA, September, 2003, Paper no.
AIAA-2003-6559. PDF.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "A Decentralized
Scheme for Spacecraft Formation Flying via the Virtual Structure
Approach," American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June,
2003, pp. 1746-1751. PDF.
- Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard, and J. Willard Curtis
"Satisficing Control for Multi-agent Formation Maneuvers," IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2002, pp.
2433--2438, Postscript.
- Wei Ren and Randal W. Beard, "Virtual Structure
based Spacecraft Formation Control with Formation Feedback," AIAA
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, Monterey,
CA, August 2002, AIAA Paper no. 2002-4963, PDF.
Ph.D.
Dissertation
Wei Ren,
"Consensus Seeking, Formation Keeping, and Trajectory Tracking in Multiple
Vehicle Cooperative Control," Doctoral Dissertation, Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department, Brigham Young University, August 2004, PDF.