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This paper presents a framework for multi-agent navigation in structured but dynamic environments, integrating three key components: a shared semantic map encoding metric and semantic environmental knowledge, a claim policy for coordinating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Koen de Vos , Elena Torta , Herman Bruyninckx , Cesar Lopez Martinez , Rene van de Molengraft

Multi-agent large language model systems can tackle complex multi-step tasks by decomposing work and coordinating specialized behaviors. However, current coordination mechanisms typically rely on statically assigned roles and centralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhaoyang Guan , Huixi Cao , Ming Zhong , Eric Yang , Lynn Ai , Yongxin Ni , Bill Shi

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of 2nd order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is a subset of $R^3$ , with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Model checking of multi-agent systems (MAS) is known to be hard, both theoretically and in practice. A smart abstraction of the state space may significantly reduce the model, and facilitate the verification. In this paper, we propose and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Wojciech Jamroga , Yan Kim

In this paper, we study asynchronous consensus problems of continuous-time multi-agent systems with discontinuous information transmission. The proposed consensus control strategy is implemented only based on the state information at some…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xiao , Long Wang

In this paper, we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of communication links that change dynamically over time. Open multi-agent systems exhibiting the aforementioned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

This paper deals with solving distributed optimization problems with equality constraints by a class of uncertain nonlinear heterogeneous dynamic multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent with an uncertain dynamic model has limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Mohammad Saeed Sarafraz , Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei

In this paper, we study the consensus problem for continuous-time and discrete-time multi-agent systems in state-dependent switching networks. In each case, we first consider the networks with fixed connectivity, in which the communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Gangshan Jing , Yuanshi Zheng , Long Wang

We consider the problem of steering a multi-agent system to multi-consensus, namely a regime where groups of agents agree on a given value which may be different from group to group. We first address the problem by using distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Mattia Frasca

From autonomous driving to package delivery, ensuring safe yet efficient multi-agent interaction is challenging as the interaction dynamics are influenced by hard-to-model factors such as social norms and contextual cues. Understanding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Isaac Remy , David Fridovich-Keil , Karen Leung

Given a connected region in two-dimensional space where events of a certain kind occur according to a certain time-varying density, we consider the problem of setting up a network of autonomous mobile agents to detect the occurrence of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Rodrigo R. Esch , Fábio Protti , Valmir C. Barbosa

Model checking has found a role in the engineering of reactive systems. However, model checkers are still strongly limited by the size of the system description they can check. Here we present a technique in which a system is simplified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Glenn Bruns

A formal but intuitive framework is introduced to bridge the gap between data obtained from empirical studies and that generated by agent-based models. This is based on three key tenets. Firstly, a simulation can be given multiple formal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Chih-Chun Chen

It is an amazing fact that remarkably complex behaviors could emerge from a large collection of very rudimentary dynamical agents through very simple local interactions. However, it still remains elusive on how to design these local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Mohammad Karimadini , Hai Lin

This paper studies a consensus problem of multi-agent systems subjected to external disturbances over the clustered network. It considers that the agents are divided into several clusters. They are almost all the time isolated one from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Thiem V. Pham , Quynh T. T. Nguyen

This paper proposes a method for abstracting control systems by timed game automata, and is aimed at obtaining automatic controller synthesis. The proposed abstraction is based on partitioning the state space of a control system using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2010-12-24 Christoffer Sloth , Rafael Wisniewski

Complex scheduling problems require a large amount computation power and innovative solution methods. The objective of this paper is the conception and implementation of a multi-agent system that is applicable in various problem domains.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

This paper studies the tracking control problem of networked multi-agent systems under both multiple networks and event-triggered mechanisms. Multiple networks are to connect multiple agents and reference systems with decentralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Wei Ren , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper develops a dynamical framework for adaptive coordination in systems of interacting agents referred to here as Feedback-Coupled Memory Systems (FCMS). Instead of framing coordination as equilibrium optimization or agent-centric…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Stefano Grassi

Several Multi-Agent System (MAS) metamodels and languages have been proposed in the literature to support the development of agent-based applications. MAS metamodels are used to capture a collection of concepts the relevant entities and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Marx Viana , Paulo Alencar , Carlos Lucena