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In this paper, we address the distributed pose estimation problem for multi-agent systems, where the agents have unknown static positions and time-varying orientations. The interaction graph is assumed to be directed and acyclic with two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Mouaad Boughellaba , Abdelhamid Tayebi

For distributed estimations in a sensor network, the consistency and accuracy of an estimator are greatly affected by the unknown correlations between individual estimates. An inconsistent or too conservative estimate may degrade the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-10 Yizhi Zhou , Xufan Liu , Xuan Wang

This paper proposes a double-layered framework (or form of network) to integrate two mechanisms, termed consensus and conservation, achieving distributed solution of a linear equation. The multi-agent framework considered in the paper is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

Efforts in this paper seek to combine graph theory with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) as a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to determine forward-in-time, real-time, approximate optimal controllers for distributed multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Huyen Dinh , Patrick Walters , Warren Dixon

We consider a convex unconstrained optimization problem that arises in a network of agents whose goal is to cooperatively optimize the sum of the individual agent objective functions through local computations and communications. For this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-11 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Asuman Ozdaglar , John N. Tsitsiklis

Inspired and underpinned by the idea of integral feedback, a distributed constant gain algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to solve convex optimization problems with local linear constraints. Assuming agent interactions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

The paper considers the problem of cooperative estimation for a linear uncertain plant observed by a network of communicating sensors. We take a novel approach by treating the filtering problem from the view point of local sensors while the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-18 M. Zamani , V. Ugrinovskii

This paper studies a distributed state estimation problem for both continuous- and discrete-time linear systems. A simply structured distributed estimator (comprising interconnected local estimators) is first described for estimating the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Lili Wang , Ji Liu , Brian B. O. Anderson , A. Stephen Morse

Classical distributed estimation scenarios typically assume timely and reliable exchanges of information over the sensor network. This paper, in contrast, considers single time-scale distributed estimation via a sensor network subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Usman A. Khan , Mohammad Pirani , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based distributed control of linear time-invariant multi-channel systems subject to unknown inputs. A distributed observer-based control framework is proposed, within which observer nodes and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ganghui Cao , Xunyuan Yin

This paper addresses the problem of distributed learning of average belief with sequential observations, in which a network of $n>1$ agents aim to reach a consensus on the average value of their beliefs, by exchanging information only with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Kaiqing Zhang , Yang Liu , Ji Liu , Mingyan Liu , Tamer Başar

We present a novel distributed probabilistic bisection algorithm using social learning with application to target localization. Each agent in the network first constructs a query about the target based on its local information and obtains a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Athanasios Tsiligkaridis , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

This paper presents a distributed Koopman operator learning framework for modeling unknown nonlinear dynamics using sequential observations from multiple agents. Each agent estimates a local Koopman approximation based on lifted data and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Ali Azarbahram , Shenyu Liu , Gian Paolo Incremona

We consider a power-constrained sensor network, consisting of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC), that is deployed for the purpose of estimating a common random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

Due to the expanding scope of machine learning (ML) to the fields of sensor networking, cooperative robotics and many other multi-agent systems, distributed deployment of inference algorithms has received a lot of attention. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Kinjal Bhar , He Bai , Jemin George , Carl Busart

Distributed aggregative optimization methods are gaining increased traction due to their ability to address cooperative control and optimization problems, where the objective function of each agent depends not only on its own decision…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ziqin Chen , Magnus Egerstedt , Yongqiang Wang

For a multi-agent system state estimation resting upon noisy measurements constitutes a problem related to several application scenarios. Adopting the standard least-squares approach, in this work we derive both the (centralized) analytic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Marco Fabris , Giulia Michieletto , Angelo Cenedese

Community detection in networks has drawn much attention in diverse fields, especially social sciences. Given its significance, there has been a large body of literature with approaches from many fields. Here we present a statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-18 Lijun Peng , Luis Carvalho

We present distributed algorithms that can be used by multiple agents to align their estimates with a particular value over a network with time-varying connectivity. Our framework is general in that this value can represent a consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Angelia Nedić , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo A. Parrilo

Executing actions in a correlated manner is a common strategy for human coordination that often leads to better cooperation, which is also potentially beneficial for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, the recent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dingyang Chen , Qi Zhang