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Several mobile agents, modelled as deterministic automata, navigate in an infinite line in synchronous rounds. All agents start in the same round. In each round, an agent can move to one of the two neighboring nodes, or stay idle. Agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Younan Gao , Andrzej Pelc

In this paper we propose an application of adaptive synchronization of chaos to detect changes in the topology of a mobile robotic network. We assume that the network may evolve in time due to the relative motion of the mobile robots and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Nicola Bezzo , Patricio J. Cruz Davalos , Francesco Sorrentino , Rafael Fierro

This note concerns the evolution of multi-agent systems on networks over Riemannian manifolds. The motion of each agent is governed by the gradient descent flow of a disagreement function that is a sum of (squared) distances between pairs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Johan Markdahl

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

The group synchronization problem is to estimate unknown group elements at the vertices of a graph when given a set of possibly noisy observations of group differences at the edges. We consider the group synchronization problem on finite…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Bradley Stich

A robust nonlinear stochastic observer for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is proposed using the available uncertain measurements of angular velocity, translational velocity, and features. The proposed observer is posed on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Marium Tawhid , Ajay Singh Ludher , Hashim A. Hashim

The multi-agent system has been a hot topic in the past few decades owing to its lower cost, higher robustness, and higher flexibility. As a particular multi-agent system, the multiple rigid body system received a growing interest for its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 X. Jin , Daniel W. C. Ho , Y. Tang

Knowledge-based leader-following synchronization of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems is a challenging problem since the leader's dynamic information is unknown to any follower node. This paper proposes a learning-based fully…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Shimin Wang , Xiangyu Meng , Hongwei Zhang , Frank L. Lewis

We consider a zeroth-order distributed optimization problem, where the global objective function is a black-box function and, as such, its gradient information is inaccessible to the local agents. Instead, the local agents can only use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Yi Shen , Yan Zhang , Scott Nivison , Zachary I. Bell , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper aims to achieve scalable exact output and regulated output synchronization for discrete-time multi-agent systems in presence of disturbances and measurement noise with known frequencies. Both homogeneous and heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Zhenwei Liu , Meirong Zhang , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel

The paper considers a problem of consensus-based synchronization of uncertain parameter varying multi-agent systems. We present a method for constructing consensus-based synchronization protocol schedules for each agent to ensure it…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-14 V. Ugrinovskii

This paper considers the distributed optimization of a sum of locally observable, non-convex functions. The optimization is performed over a multi-agent networked system, and each local function depends only on a subset of the variables. An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Sandeep Kumar , Rahul Jain , Ketan Rajawat

In this paper, a consensus algorithm is proposed for interacting multi-agents, which can be modeled as simple Mechanical Control Systems (MCS) evolving on a general Lie group. The standard Laplacian flow consensus algorithm for double…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Akhil B Krishna , Farshad Khorrami , Anthony Tzes

The group synchronization problem involves estimating a collection of group elements from noisy measurements of their pairwise ratios. This task is a key component in many computational problems, including the molecular reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Noam Janco , Tamir Bendory

This paper addresses the oscillatory synchronization problem for multiple uncertain mechanical systems with a virtual leader, and the interaction topology among them is assumed to contain a directed spanning tree. We propose an adaptive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Hanlei Wang

This paper addresses distributed average tracking of physical second-order agents with nonlinear dynamics, where the interaction among the agents is described by an undirected graph. In both agents' and reference inputs' dynamics, there is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Sheida Ghapani , Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

In this paper, we present a distributed estimation setup where local agents estimate their states from relative measurements received from their neighbours. In the case of heterogeneous multi-agent systems, where only relative measurements…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingbo Wu , Valery Ugrinovskii , Frank Allgöwer

We present a method for estimating the maximal symmetry of a continuous regression function. Knowledge of such a symmetry can be used to significantly improve modelling by removing the modes of variation resulting from the symmetries.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-21 Louis G. Christie , John A. D. Aston

This paper considers the problem of solving a symmetric positive definite system of linear equations over a network of agents with arbitrary asynchronous interactions and membership dynamics. The latter implies that each agent is allowed to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Jie Lu , Choon Yik Tang