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Existing works on multi-agent time-varying optimization allow agents to asynchronously communicate and/or compute, but do not allow asynchronous sampling of objectives. Sampling can be difficult to synchronize, and we therefore present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Gabriel Behrendt , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Hale

We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

This paper delves into the investigation of a distributed aggregative optimization problem within a network. In this scenario, each agent possesses its own local cost function, which relies not only on the local state variable but also on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Jiaxu Liu , Song Chen , Shengze Cai , Chao Xu , Jian Chu

This paper addresses distributed average tracking for a group of heterogeneous physical agents consisting of single-integrator, double-integrator and Euler-Lagrange dynamics. Here, the goal is that each agent uses local information and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

We propose a distributed algorithm for multiagent systems that aim to optimize a common objective when agents differ in their estimates of the objective-relevant state of the environment. Each agent keeps an estimate of the environment and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Sina Arefizadeh , Ceyhun Eksin

The problem of distributed synthesis is to automatically generate a distributed algorithm, given a target communication network and a specification of the algorithm's correct behavior. Previous work has focused on static networks with an a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Béatrice Bérard , Benedikt Bollig , Patricia Bouyer , Matthias Függer , Nathalie Sznajder

A problem of distributed state estimation at multiple agents that are physically connected and have competitive interests is mapped to a distributed source coding problem with additional privacy constraints. The agents interact to estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

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

This paper considers the distributed robust control problems of uncertain linear multi-agent systems with undirected communication topologies. It is assumed that the agents have identical nominal dynamics while subject to different…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Lihua Xie , Xiangdong Liu

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

We propose a distributed control, in which many identical control agents are deployed for controlling a linear time-invariant plant that has multiple input-output channels. Each control agent can join or leave the control loop during the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Taekyoo Kim , Donggil Lee , Hyungbo Shim

In this work, we proposed a new dynamic distributed planning approach that is able to take into account the changes that the agent introduces on his set of actions to be planned in order to take into account the changes that occur in his…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zakaria Tolba

In this paper, we consider the cooperative output regulation problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems in the presence of communication constraints. Under standard assumptions on the agents dynamics, we propose a distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Abdelhamid Tayebi

A network of agents attempt to learn some unknown state of the world drawn by nature from a finite set. Agents observe private signals conditioned on the true state, and form beliefs about the unknown state accordingly. Each agent may face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Shahin Shahrampour , Mohammad Amin Rahimian , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper proposes distributed algorithms for solving linear equations to seek a least square solution via multi-agent networks. We consider that each agent has only access to a small and imcomplete block of linear equations rather than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Yi Huang , Ziyang Meng

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

In this paper, we study proximal type dynamics in the context of noncooperative multi-agent network games. These dynamics arise in different applications, since they describe distributed decision making in multi-agent networks, e.g., in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Carlo Cenedese , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Yu Kawano , Sergio Grammatico , Ming Cao

Distributed sensor networks have gained interest thanks to the developments in processing power and communications. Event-triggering mechanisms can be useful in reducing communication between the nodes of the network, while still ensuring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

We consider the setting of agents cooperatively minimizing the sum of local objectives plus a regularizer on a graph. This paper proposes a primal-dual method in consideration of three distinctive attributes of real-life multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Ziyi Yu , Nikolaos M. Freris

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-20 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Danilo Mandic