Zhongkui Li holds a BS from the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China and a Ph.D from Peking University, Beijing, China. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, China. Previously he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Beijing Institute of Technology, and held visiting positions at City University of Hong Kong, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the recipient of the Natural Science Award (First Prize) from the Ministry of Education of China in 2011 and the National Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award of China in 2012. His article (coauthored with Z.S. Duan and G.R. Chen) received the 2013 IET Control Theory & Applications Premium Award (Best Paper).Zhisheng Duan holds an MS from Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China, and a Ph.D from Peking University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Cheung Kong scholar at Peking University, and is with the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering. Previously he was a postdoctor with Peking University; a visiting professor with Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and a visiting professor with City University of Hong Kong, China. He has been the recipient of the Chinese Control Conference Guan Zhao-Zhi Award and the Natural Science Award (First Prize) from the Ministry of Education of China. He obtained the outstanding National Natural Science Foundation in China, and was selected into the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities by the Ministry of Education of China. He has published over 100 papers in, and been an associate editor and advisory board member of, numerous international referred journals and conferences.

"... offer[s] a systematic framework for designing distributed controllers for multi-agent systems having linear agent dynamics. ... This monograph is certainly for a specialist in multi-agent systems. It will be useful to researchers and to advanced course control engineers where multi-agent systems are covered. It’s useful as a reference text and it has a good bibliography."—Control Technology Consortium (ACTC) E-News, May 2015 Edition

• Introduction and Mathematical Background. Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems: Continuous-Time Case. Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems: Discrete-Time Case. H∞ and H2 Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems. Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems Using Distributed Adaptive Protocols. Distributed Tracking of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with a Leader of Possibly Nonzero Input. Containment Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Multiple Leaders. Distributed Robust Cooperative Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Matching Uncertainties. Global Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Lipchitz Non-Linear Dynamics. Bibliography.

Zhongkui Li holds a BS from the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China and a Ph.D from Peking University, Beijing, China. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, China. Previously he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Beijing Institute of Technology, and held visiting positions at City University of Hong Kong, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the recipient of the Natural Science Award (First Prize) from the Ministry of Education of China in 2011 and the National Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award of China in 2012. His article (coauthored with Z.S. Duan and G.R. Chen) received the 2013 IET Control Theory & Applications Premium Award (Best Paper).Zhisheng Duan holds an MS from Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China, and a Ph.D from Peking University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Cheung Kong scholar at Peking University, and is with the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering. Previously he was a postdoctor with Peking University; a visiting professor with Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and a visiting professor with City University of Hong Kong, China. He has been the recipient of the Chinese Control Conference Guan Zhao-Zhi Award and the Natural Science Award (First Prize) from the Ministry of Education of China. He obtained the outstanding National Natural Science Foundation in China, and was selected into the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities by the Ministry of Education of China. He has published over 100 papers in, and been an associate editor and advisory board member of, numerous international referred journals and conferences.

"... offer[s] a systematic framework for designing distributed controllers for multi-agent systems having linear agent dynamics. ... This monograph is certainly for a specialist in multi-agent systems. It will be useful to researchers and to advanced course control engineers where multi-agent systems are covered. It’s useful as a reference text and it has a good bibliography."—Control Technology Consortium (ACTC) E-News, May 2015 Edition

• Introduction and Mathematical Background. Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems: Continuous-Time Case. Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems: Discrete-Time Case. H∞ and H2 Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems. Consensus Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems Using Distributed Adaptive Protocols. Distributed Tracking of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with a Leader of Possibly Nonzero Input. Containment Control of Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Multiple Leaders. Distributed Robust Cooperative Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Matching Uncertainties. Global Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Lipchitz Non-Linear Dynamics. Bibliography.