Across the globe, the past several years have seen a tremendous increase in the role of cooperative autonomous systems. The field of cooperative control and optimization has established itself as a part of many different scientific disciplines. The contents of this hugely important volume, which adds much to the debate on the subject, are culled from papers presented at the Seventh Annual International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, held in Gainesville, Florida, in January 2007.

Locating RF Emitters with Large UAV Teams.- Out-of-Order Sigma-Point Kalman Filtering for Target Localization Using Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Multi-cumulant Control for Zero-Sum Differential Games: Performance-Measure Statistics and State-Feedback Paradigm.- Decentralized Cooperative Optimization for Multi-criteria Decision Making.- Simultaneous Localization and Planning for Cooperative Air Munitions.- Second-Order Cone Programming (SOCP) Techniques for Coordinating Large-Scale Robot Teams in Polygonal Environments.- UAV Splay State Configuration for Moving Targets in Wind.- A Risk-Based Approach to Sensor Resource Management.- Constructing Optimal Cyclic Tours for Planar Exploration and Obstacle Avoidance : A Graph Theory Approach.- An Analysis and Solution of the Sensor Scheduling Problem.- Cooperative Vision Based Estimation and Tracking Using Multiple UAVs.- Waypoint Selection in Constrained Domains (for Cooperative Systems).- Cooperative Formation Flying in Autonomous Unmanned Air Systems with Application to Training.- Virtual Leader Based Formation Control of Multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs): Control Design, Simulation and Real-Time Experiment.- Cooperative Control of Multiple Agents and Search Strategy.- Real-Time Optimal Time-Critical Target Assignment for UAVs.- Sequential Inspection Using Loitering.- Distributed Cooperative Systems with Human Operator-in-the-Loop.- Decentralized Extremum-Seeking Control of Nonholonomic Vehicles to Form a Communication Chain.- An Adaptive Sequential Game Theoretic Approach to Coordinated Mission Planning for Aerial Platforms.- Characteristics of the Distribution of Hamming Distance Values Between Multidimensional Assignment Problem Solutions.- Robust Cooperative Visual Tracking: A Combined NonLinear Dimensionality Reduction/Robust Identification Approach.- A Lagrangian-Based Algorithm for a Combinatorial Motion Planning Problem.- A Random Keys Based Genetic Algorithm for the Target Visitation Problem.- Cooperative Rendezvous Between Active Autonomous Vehicles.