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Given a population of interconnected input-output agents repeatedly exposed to independent random inputs, we talk of correlated variability when agents' outputs are variable (i.e., they change randomly at each input repetition) but…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-15 Marcela Ordorica Arango , Alessio Franci

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

We study the stabilization of networked control systems with asynchronous sensors and controllers. Offsets between the sensor and controller clocks are unknown and modeled as parametric uncertainty. First we consider multi-input linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Masashi Wakaiki , Kunihisa Okano , Joao P. Hespanha

We address the synchronization problem in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, agents can join or leave the network over time, and the interaction structure may evolve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Pelin Sekercioglu , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper investigates the linear output regulation problem with both the exosystem and the plant fully unknown. A data-driven regulator is proposed to achieve asymptotic regulation and closed-loop stability without performing model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Shangkun Liu , Lei Wang , Bowen Yi

This paper studies multi-agent systems with nonlinear consensus protocols, i.e., only nonlinear measurements of the states are available to agents. The solutions of these systems are understood in Filippov sense since the possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Jieqiang Wei , Xinlei Yi , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

We consider the problem of multi-agent consensus where some agents are subject to faults/attacks and might make updates arbitrarily. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued (i.e., quantized) states under directed communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

This paper considers the containment control problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and multiple leaders whose control inputs are possibly nonzero and time varying. Based on the relative states of neighboring agents, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Wei Ren , Gang Feng

This paper proposes a decentralized controller for large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances, where agents must satisfy Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications requiring cooperation among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper studies regulated state synchronization of homogeneous networks of non-introspective agents in presence of unknown nonuniform input delays. A scale-free protocol is designed based on additional information exchange, which does…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Zhenwei Liu , Donya Nojavanzadeh , Dmitri Saberi , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel

This paper proposes an approach to addresses the control challenges posed by a fault-induced uncertainty in both the dynamics and control input effectiveness of a class of hierarchical nonlinear systems in which the high-level dynamics is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Sina Ameli , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

The paper deals with the data-based design of state-feedback controllers that solve the output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear systems. Inspired by recent developments in model-based output regulation design techniques and in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Zhongjie Hu , Claudio De Persis , John W. Simpson-Porco , Pietro Tesi

Distributed control algorithms are known to reduce overall computation time compared to centralized control algorithms. However, they can result in inconsistent solutions leading to the violation of safety-critical constraints. Inconsistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Julius Beerwerth , Maximilian Kloock , Bassam Alrifaee

This paper solves the robust hybrid output regulation problem for arbitrary uncertain hybrid MIMO linear systems with periodic jumps without the restrictive assumptions used in all previous works on the subject. A necessary condition for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Giovanni de Carolis , Sergio Galeani , Mario Sassano

In this paper, we investigate scale-free delta-level coherent output synchronization for multi-agent systems (MAS) operating under bounded disturbances or noises. We introduce an adaptive scale-free framework designed solely based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Anton A. Stoorvogel , Ali Saberi , Donya Nojavanzadeh

Within the area of multi-agent systems, normative systems are a widely used framework for the coordination of interdependent activities. A crucial problem associated with normative systems is that of synthesising norms that effectively…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Javier Morales , Michael Wooldridge , Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar , Maite López-Sánchez

In this paper the robust cooperative output regulation problem for multi-agent systems (MAS) with general heterodirectional hyperbolic PIDE-ODE agents is considered. This setup also covers networks of ODEs with arbitrarily long input and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Jakob Gabriel , Joachim Deutscher

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse

This paper presents a novel control strategy for the coordination of a multi-agent system subject to high-level goals expressed as linear temporal logic formulas. In particular, each agent, which is modeled as a sphere with 2nd order…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper studies output feedback consensus protocol design problems for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs. We consider both leaderless and leader-follower consensus with a leader whose control input is nonzero and bounded.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Yuezu Lv , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Jie Chen