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Consider a collaborative task carried out by two autonomous agents that are able to communicate over a noisy channel. Each agent is only aware of its own state, while the accomplishment of the task depends on the value of the joint state of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Arsham Mostaani , Osvaldo Simeone , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

An important class of cyber-physical systems relies on multiple agents that jointly perform a task by coordinating their actions over a wireless network. Examples include self-driving cars in intelligent transportation and production robots…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Fabian Mager , Dominik Baumann , Carsten Herrmann , Sebastian Trimpe , Marco Zimmerling

The distributed coordination problem of multi-agent systems is addressed in this paper under the assumption of intermittent communication between agents in the presence of time-varying communication delays. Specifically, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

In this paper, we consider the coordination control of a group of autonomous mobile agents with multiple leaders. Different interconnection topologies are investigated. At first, a necessary and sufficient condition is proved in the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiangping Hu , Yiguang Hong

A question we can ask of multi-agent systems is whether the agents' collective interaction satisfies particular goals or specifications, which can be either individual or collective. When a collaborative goal is not reached, or a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Karam Kharraz , Shaun Azzopardi , Gerardo Schneider , Martin Leucker

The multi-agent spatial coverage control problem encompasses a broad research domain, dealing with both dynamic and static deployment strategies, discrete-task assignments, and spatial distribution-matching deployment. Coverage control may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Solmaz Kia , Sonia Martinez

Current evaluations of agents remain centered around one-shot task completion, failing to account for the inherently iterative and collaborative nature of many real-world problems, where human goals are often underspecified and evolve. We…

A number of prototypical optimization problems in multi-agent systems (e.g., task allocation and network load-sharing) exhibit a highly local structure: that is, each agent's decision variables are only directly coupled to few other agent's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Robin Brown , Federico Rossi , Kiril Solovey , Michael T. Wolf , Marco Pavone

In collaborative robotic cells, a human operator and a robot share the workspace in order to execute a common job, consisting of a set of tasks. A proper allocation and scheduling of the tasks for the human and for the robot is crucial for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Andrea Pupa , Chiara Talignani Landi , Mattia Bertolani , Cristian Secchi

In this paper, we consider the coordination control of a group of autonomous mobile agents with multiple leaders. Different interconnection topologies are investigated. At first, a necessary and sufficient condition is proved in the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiangping Hu , Yiguang Hong , Linxin Gao

The recent major developments in information technologies have opened interesting possibilities for the effective management of multi-agent systems. In many cases, the important role of central control nodes can now be undertaken by several…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Filiberto Fele , José M. Maestre , Eduardo F. Camacho

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving various tasks, yet they often struggle with comprehensively addressing complex and vague problems. Existing approaches, including multi-agent LLM systems,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Sumedh Rasal , E. J. Hauer

Self-organization is a process where a stable pattern is formed by the cooperative behavior between parts of an initially disordered system without external control or influence. It has been introduced to multi-agent systems as an internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , John-Jules Meyer

In this paper, we present a solution to a design problem of control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Although existing learning-based methods assume that the number of agents is the same as that in the training environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Takamitsu Matsubara

This paper addresses a coordination problem between two agents (Agents $1$ and $2$) in the presence of a noisy communication channel which depends on an external system state $\{x_{0,t}\}$. The channel takes as inputs both agents' actions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Benjamin Larrousse , Samson Lasaulce , Michèle Wigger

In open agent systems, the set of agents that are cooperating or competing changes over time and in ways that are nontrivial to predict. For example, if collaborative robots were tasked with fighting wildfires, they may run out of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Adam Eck , Maulik Shah , Prashant Doshi , Leen-Kiat Soh

In this work we consider a generalization of the well-known multivehicle routing problem: given a network, a set of agents occupying a subset of its nodes, and a set of tasks, we seek a minimum cost sequence of movements subject to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jamison W. Weber , Dhanush R. Giriyan , Devendra R. Parkar , Dimitri P. Bertsekas , Andréa W. Richa

We consider the problem of distributing a centralised transition system to a set of asynchronous agents recognising the same language. Existing solutions are either manual or involve a huge explosion in the number of states from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

Natural, social, and artificial multi-agent systems usually operate in dynamic environments, where the ability to respond to changing circumstances is a crucial feature. An effective collective response requires suitable information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-09-29 David Mateo , Nikolaj Horsevad , Vahid Hassani , Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for addressing complex, distributed tasks in large language model (LLM)-driven applications. While prior research has focused on high-level architectural frameworks, the granular…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochun Wang , Sendong Zhao , Jingbo Wang , Zewen Qiang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu