An Overview of Swarm Coordinated Control

In recent years, with the rapid development of swarm control technology, the swarm system has shown broad application prospects in military, civil, and other fields, which has gradually become a research hotspot in the area of automatic control. To further promote the development of swarm technology, this article reviews the detail research on the swarm control, especially the results after 2018. In order to cover all the important and hot topics in the field of swarm control research, we conducted a literature search based on the Google Scholar and Web of Science databases and collected hundreds of articles on the swarm control for review. The topics include swarm, formation, consistency, topology switching, delay control, convergence time control, obstacle avoidance, path planning, etc. Besides, the evaluation methods and applications such as vicinagearth security are introduced. Then, based on the latest existing research methods and results, the future research directions are proposed, including survival-intelligence-based, learning-based, and heterogeneous-control-based. In conclusion, the main purpose of this article is to sort out the latest achievements in the development of swarm control technology, providing important research references for scholars.