This mini-symposium will concentrate on applications of rigidity theory to the the creation of architectures for the distributed control of groups of autonomous mobile robots (such as unmanned aerial vehicles) that enable them to accomplish a common goal in the absence of a centralised control (e.g, systems moving indoors, underwater or in other GPS-denied environments performing surveillance, search-and-rescue or collective transport operations). While rigidity theory has already provided valuable insights into these problems, many modern rigidity-based techniques have not yet been fully exploited by control theorists.

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