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Graph-based environments pose unique challenges to multi-agent reinforcement learning. In decentralized approaches, agents operate within a given graph and make decisions based on partial or outdated observations. The size of the observed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jannis Weil , Zhenghua Bao , Osama Abboud , Tobias Meuser

We consider the optimal multi-agent persistent monitoring problem defined by a team of cooperating agents visiting a set of nodes (targets) on a graph with the objective of minimizing a measure of overall node state uncertainty. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Nan Zhou , Christos G. Cassandras , Xi Yu , Sean B. Andersson

A distributed adaptive control strategy is developed for heterogeneous multiagent systems in nonlinear Brunovsky form with \({\pd}\)-dimensional $n^{\text{th}}$-order dynamics, operating under time-triggered switching communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Armel Koulong , Ali Pakniyat

Large-scale multi-agent communication has long faced a scalability bottleneck: fully connected networks require quadratic complexity, yet existing sparse topologies rely on hand-crafted rules. This paper treats the communication graph…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingkai Luo , Yulin Shao

We present consensus analysis of systems with single integrator dynamics interacting via time-varying graphs under the event-triggered control paradigm. Event-triggered control sparsifies the control applied, thus reducing the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-03 S. Arun Kumar , N. R. Chowdhury , S. Srikant , J. Raisch

We analyze the dynamics of multi-agent collective behavior models and their control theoretical properties. We first derive a large population limit to parabolic diffusive equations. We also show that the non-local transport equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Umberto Biccari , Dongnam Ko , Enrique Zuazua

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

This paper addresses the positive synchronization of interconnected systems on undirected graphs. For homogeneous positive systems, a static feedback protocol design is proposed, based on the Linear Regulator problem. The solution to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Alba Gurpegui , Mark Jeeninga , Emma Tegling , Anders Rantzer

Propagation of transition fronts in models of coupled oscillators with non-degenerate on-site potential is usually considered in terms of travelling waves. We show that the system dynamics can be reformulated as an implicit map structure,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-08-08 I. B. Shiroky , O. V. Gendelman

In many multi-agent systems of practical interest, such as traffic networks or crowd evacuation, control actions cannot be exerted on all agents. Instead, controllable leaders must indirectly steer uncontrolled followers through local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Davide Salzano , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

In this paper, scalable controller design to achieve output synchronization for a heterogeneous discrete-time nonlinear multi-agent system is considered. The agents are assumed to exhibit potentially nonlinear dynamics but share linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Xin Mao , Dan Wang , Wei Chen , Li Qiu

This paper addresses the challenge of network synchronization under limited communication, involving heterogeneous agents with different dynamics and various network topologies, to achieve consensus. We investigate the distributed adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Moh. Kamalul Wafi , Milad Siami

Many transitional wall-bounded shear flows are characterised by the coexistence in state-space of laminar and turbulent regimes. Probing the edge boundary between the two attractors has led in the last decade to the numerical discovery of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-20 Ashley P. Willis , Yohann Duguet , Oleh Omel'chenko , Matthias Wolfrum

This paper develops a control-theoretic framework for analyzing agentic systems embedded within feedback control loops, where an AI agent may adapt controller parameters, select among control strategies, invoke external tools, reconfigure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Ali Eslami , Jiangbo Yu

Recent work in data-driven control has led to methods that find stabilizing controllers directly from measurements of an unknown system. However, for multi-agent systems we are often interested in finding controllers that take their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Jaap Eising , Jorge Cortes

In this paper, we develop a variational method to track and make predictions about a real-world system from continuous imperfect observations about this system, using an agent-based model that describes the system dynamics. By combining the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Wen Dong

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 problem of distributed controller synthesis for formation control of multi-agent systems is considered. The agents (single integrators) communicate over a communication graph and a decentralized linear feedback structure is assumed. One…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Ameer K. Mulla , Rachel K. Kalaimani , Debraj Chakraborty , Madhu N. Belur

Graph models provide efficient tools to capture the underlying structure of data defined over networks. Many real-world network topologies are subject to change over time. Learning to model the dynamic interactions between entities in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Amirhossein Javaheri , Jiaxi Ying , Daniel P. Palomar , Farokh Marvasti

The goal of this work is to propose an extension of the popular leader-follower framework for multi-agent collective tracking and formation maintenance in presence of a time- varying leader. In particular, the leader is persistently…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Antonio Franchi , Paolo Robuffo Giordano