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The problem of multi-agent formation control for target tracking is considered in this paper. The target is an irregular dynamic shape approximated by a circle with moving centre and varying radius. It is assumed that there are n agents and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Joana Fonseca , Jieqiang Wei , Karl H. Johansson , Tor Arne Johansen

This study proposes a distributed algorithm that makes agents' adaptive grouping entrap multiple targets via automatic decision making, smooth flocking, and well-distributed entrapping. Agents make their own decisions about which targets to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Chen Wang , Minqiang Gu , Wenxi Kuang , Dongliang Wang , Weicheng Luo , Zhaohui Shi , Zhun Fan

An important goal for swarming research is to create methods for predicting, controlling and designing swarms, which produce collective dynamics that solve a problem through emergent and stable pattern formation, without the need for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-17 Jason Hindes , George Stantchev , Klimka Szwaykowska Kasraie , Ira B. Schwartz

Swarm robotic systems utilize collective behaviour to achieve goals that might be too complex for a lone entity, but become attainable with localized communication and collective decision making. In this paper, a behaviour-based distributed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Akshaya C S , Karthik Soma , Visweswaran B , Aditya Ravichander , Venkata Nagarjun PM

Over the past few decades, the research community has been interested in the study of multi-agent systems and their emerging collective dynamics. These systems are all around us in nature, like bacterial colonies, fish schools, bird flocks,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-12 Gourab Kumar Sar , Dibakar Ghosh

Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behavior of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yuxuan Liu , Scott G. McCalla , Hayden Schaeffer

The emerging collective motions of swarms of interacting agents are a subject of great interest in application areas ranging from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we conduct a careful analysis of the collective dynamics of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-04 Klementyna Szwaykowska , Luis Mier-y-Teran Romero , Ira B. Schwartz

Swarm robotic systems are currently being used to address many real-world problems. One interesting application of swarm robotics is the self-organized formation of structures and shapes. Some of the key challenges in the swarm robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yasir R. Darr , Muaz A. Niazi

The self-organizing behavior of swarms of inter- acting particles or agents is a topic of intense research in fields extending from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we carry out a systematic study of how the stable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-02 Klimka Szwaykowska , Christoffer Heckman , Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero , Ira B. Schwartz

Central to all machine learning algorithms is data representation. For multi-agent systems, selecting a representation which adequately captures the interactions among agents is challenging due to the latent group structure which tends to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jennifer Hobbs , Matthew Holbrook , Nathan Frank , Long Sha , Patrick Lucey

We study the formation control problem for a group of mobile agents in a plane, in which each agent is modeled as a kinematic point and can only use the local measurements in its local frame. The agents are required to maintain a geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Chen Wang , Shuai Li , Weiguo Xia , Jinan Sun , Guangming Xie

Formation strategy is one of the most important parts of many multi-agent systems with many applications in real world problems. In this paper, a framework for learning this task in a limited domain (restricted environment) is proposed. In…

Collective behavior, and swarm formation in particular, has been studied from several perspectives within a large variety of fields, ranging from biology to physics. In this work, we apply Projective Simulation to model each individual as…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Andrea López-Incera , Katja Ried , Thomas Müller , Hans J. Briegel

A multi-agent system comprises numerous agents that autonomously make decisions to collectively accomplish tasks, drawing significant attention for their wide-ranging applications. Within this context, formation control emerges as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Anna Fujioka , Masaki Ogura , Naoki Wakamiya

The task of searching for and tracking of multiple targets is a challenging one. However, most works in this area do not consider evasive targets that move faster than the agents comprising the multi-robot system. This is due to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Hian Lee Kwa , Jabez Leong Kit , Roland Bouffanais

Swarming systems, such as drone fleets and robotic teams, exhibit complex dynamics driven by both individual behaviors and emergent group-level interactions. Unlike traditional multi-agent domains such as pedestrian crowds or traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minah Lee , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Geometric pattern formation is an important emergent behavior in many applications involving large-scale multi-agent systems, such as sensor networks deployment and collective transportation. Attraction/repulsion virtual forces are the most…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Andrea Giusti , Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

This paper addresses the problem of formation control and tracking a of desired trajectory by an Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems. It is inspired by recent results by Qingkai et al. and adopts an event-triggered control strategy to reduce…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christophe Viel , Sylvain Bertrand , Michel Kieffer , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

An approach for coalition formation of multi-agent pursuit based on neural network and AGRMF model is proposed.This paper constructs a novel neural work called AGRMF-ANN which consists of feature extraction part and group generation part.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Zhaoyi Pei , Songhao Piao , Mohammed Ei Souidi

The safe control of multi-robot swarms is a challenging and active field of research, where common goals include maintaining group cohesion while simultaneously avoiding obstacles and inter-agent collision. Building off our previously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Brooks A. Butler , Chi Ho Leung , Philip E. Paré
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