This thesis contains material from 4 papers submitted to and published in the following peer-reviewed journals in which I am listed as an author. Chapter 3 is submitted to IET Control Theory & Applications as Y. Zou, C. Wen, and M. Guan. "Distributed output feedback consensus tracking control of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots with directed communication graph and sensor faults," The contributions of the co-authors are as follows: • I prepared the drafts of the manuscript, designed the control algorithm and performed the simulations. • Prof. Wen provided comments on the algorithm design and revised the manuscript drafts. • Mr. Guan assisted in simulations and revision of the manuscript. Chapter 4 is submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems as Y. Zou, C. Wen, and C. Deng. "Distributed output feedback consensus tracking control of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots with only position information of leader," The contributions of the co-authors are as follows: • I prepared the drafts of the manuscript, designed the control algorithm and performed the simulations.