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The paper is devoted to the approximate consensus problem for networks of nonlinear agents with switching topology, noisy and delayed measurements. In contrast to the existing stochastic approximation-based control algorithms (protocols), a…

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In this paper, formation control for reduced attitude is studied, in which both stationary and rotating regular tetrahedron formation can be achieved and are asymptotically stable under a large family of gain functions in the control.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Silun Zhang , Wenjun Song , Fenghua He , Yiguang Hong , Xiaoming Hu

In this paper, we study consensus problem in multi-agent system with directed topology by event-triggered feedback control. That is, at each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the information from its latest observations…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-04-07 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

A solution is provided in this note for the adaptive consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown and non-identical control directions assuming a strongly connected underlying graph topology. This is achieved with the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Haris E. Psillakis

A generic feature of bounded confidence type models is the formation of clusters of agents. We propose and study a variant of bounded confidence dynamics with the goal of inducing unconditional convergence to a consensus. The defining…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Dylan Weber , Sebastien Motsch , GuanLin Li

This work proposes a novel 2-D formation control scheme for acyclic triangulated directed graphs (a class of minimally acyclic persistent graphs) based on bipolar coordinates with (almost) global convergence to the desired shape. Prescribed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Farhad Mehdifar , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Julien M. Hendrickx , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we investigate the fixed-time behavioral control problem for a team of second-order nonlinear agents, aiming to achieve a desired formation with collision/obstacle~avoidance. In the proposed approach, the two behaviors(tasks)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Ning Zhou , Xiaodong Cheng , Zhongqi Sun , Yuanqing Xia

Attitude control systems naturally evolve on nonlinear configuration spaces, such as S^2 and SO(3). The nontrivial topological properties of these configuration spaces result in interesting and complicated nonlinear dynamics when studying…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

The complex tasks such as surveillance, construction, search and rescue can benefit of the maneuverability of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to obtain robust, cooperative system behavior and formation control is a prominent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-09 I. Kagan Erunsal , Rodrigo Ventura , Alcherio Martinoli

In this paper, we first study the leader-following output synchronization problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching networks. Our approach integrates the output-based adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Jie Huang

We consider the interplay of disorder and interactions upon the gapless surface states of 3D topological superconductors. The combination of topology and superconducting order inverts the action of time-reversal symmetry, so that extrinsic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-05-07 Matthew S. Foster , Hong-Yi Xie , Yang-Zhi Chou

In this work, we present solutions to the flocking and target interception problems of multiple nonholonomic unicycle-type robots using the distance-based framework. The control laws are designed at the kinematic level and are based on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Milad Khaledyan , Tairan Liu , Marcio de Queiroz

This letter studies a distributed collision avoidance control problem for a group of rigid bodies on a sphere. A rigid body network, consisting of multiple rigid bodies constrained to a spherical surface and an interconnection topology, is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Tatsuya Ibuki , Sean Wilson , Aaron D. Ames , Magnus Egerstedt

This work proposes a cooperative strategy for a group of quadrotors interacting over ring digraphs with macro-vertices of size two. Consensus for a group of general double integrators has been initially investigated, and it has been proved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Sahaya Aarti Dennisselvan , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Dwaipayan Mukherjee

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

In this paper, we present an original set of flocking rules using an ecologically-inspired paradigm for control of multi-robot systems. We translate these rules into a constraint-driven optimal control problem where the agents minimize…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

In this article, we investigate the convergence behavior of two classes of gathering protocols with fixed circulant topologies using tools from dynamical systems. Given a fixed number of mobile entities moving in the Euclidean plane, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Raphael Gerlach , Sören von der Gracht , Michael Dellnitz

Despite the great success of using gradient-based controllers to stabilize rigid formations of autonomous agents in the past years, surprising yet intriguing undesirable collective motions have been reported recently when inconsistent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Hector Garcia de Marina , Ming Cao , Bayu Jayawardhana

We study the problem of consensus emergence in multi-agent systems via external feedback controllers. We consider a set of agents interacting with dynamics given by a Cucker-Smale type of model, and study its consensus stabilization by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Dante Kalise

This paper focuses on a model for opinion dynamics, where the influence weights of agents evolve in time. We formulate a control problem of consensus type, in which the objective is to drive all agents to a final target point under suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Nastassia Duteil , Benedetto Piccoli