The project aims at developing new methods and algorithms for analysis and distributed cooperative control design of autonomous vehicle formations, and networks of heterogeneous systems, sensors, and actuators.

Main problems to be investigated include: platooning of driverless trucks and passenger cars, simulation and verification by complex models with realistic dynamics, output synchronization of heterogeneous agents in the presence of disturbances, more complex distributed control structures involving more Laplacians, distributed system estimation and control using networks of sensors and actuators, and adaptive state-synchronization distributed control with coupling gain adaptation.

Project results shall be published only in leading scientific journals and presented at most prestigious conferences. Applications of the project results are expected in many eras of engineering, including control of real platoons of driverless trucks or passenger cars, through various applications of networked systems in industry and society, to the activities now referred to as Industry 4.0.