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1Published in "IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine 6(3): 67 -85 , 2008" which should be cited to refer to this work.

This paper addresses the formation maneuver control problem of leader-follower multi-agent systems with highorder integrator dynamics. A distributed output feedback formation maneuver controller is proposed to achieve desired maneuvers so that the scale, orientation, translation, and shape of formation can be manipulated continuously, where the followers do not need to know or estimate the time-varying maneuver parameters only known to the leaders. Compared with existing relative-measurement-based formation maneuver control, the advantages of the proposed method are that it is output (relative output) feedback based and shows how to realize different types of formation shape. In addition, it can be applied to nongeneric and non-convex nominal configurations and the leaders are allowed to be maneuvered. It is worth noting that the proposed method can also be extended to general linear multiagent systems under some additional conditions. The theoretical results are demonstrated by a simulation example.

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Thermostatically controlled appliances (TCAs) have great thermal storage capability and are therefore excellent demand response (DR) resources to solve the problem of power fluctuation caused by renewable energy. Traditional centralized management is affected by communication quality severely and thus usually has poor realtime control performance. To tackle this problem, a hierarchical and distributed control strategy for TCAs is established. In the proposed control strategy, target assignment has the feature of self-regulating, owing to the designed target assignment and compensating algorithm which can utilize DR resources maximally in the controlled regions and get better control effects. Besides, the model prediction strategy and customers' responsive behavior model are integrated into the original optimal temperature regulation (OTR-O), and OTR-O will be evolved into improved optimal temperature regulation. A series of case studies have been given to demonstrate the control effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

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