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Minimum Attention Control (MAC) is a control technique that provides minimal input changes to meet the control objective. Mathematically, the zero norm of the input changes is used as a constraint for the given control objective and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Ganesh Teja Theertham , Santhosh Kumar Varanasi , Phanindra Jampana

The guaranteed-performance consensualization for high-order linear and nonlinear multiagent systems with switching topologies is respectively realized in a completely distributed manner in the sense that consensus design criteria are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jianxiang Xi , Cheng Wang , Hao Liu , Le Wang

This work aims to address the design of fully distributed control protocols for stochastic consensus, and, for the first time, establishes the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the path-dependent and highly nonlinear closed-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xuping Hou , Xiaofeng Zong , Yong He

This work shows an approach to achieve output consensus among heterogeneous agents in a multi-agent environment where each agent is subject to input constraints. The communication among agents is described by a time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Chong Jin Ong , Bonan Hou

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

In this work we propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) formulation that splits constraints in two different types. Motivated by safety considerations, the first type of constraint enforces a control-invariant set, while the second type…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Allan Andre do Nascimento , Han Wang , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Kostas Margellos

In this paper, we consider the resilient multi-dimensional consensus and distributed optimization problems of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of both agent-based and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The considered agent-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Hongjian Chen , Changyun Wen , Xiaolei Li

This article addresses the problem of average consensus in a multi-agent system when the desired consensus quantity is a time varying signal. Recently, the EDCHO protocol leveraged high order sliding modes to achieve exact consensus under a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés

This paper considers the consensus performance improvement problem of networked general linear agents subject to external disturbances over Markovian randomly switching communication topologies. The consensus control laws can only use its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Jingyao Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Jianping Zeng

We address the multi-agent persistent monitoring problem defined on a set of nodes (targets) interconnected over a network topology. A measure of mean overall node state uncertainty evaluated over a finite period is to be minimized by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Shirantha Welikala , Christos G. Cassandras

Control co-design (CCD) is a technique for improving the closed-loop performance of systems through the coordinated design of both plant parameters and an optimal control policy. While model predictive control (MPC) is an attractive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Austin L. Nash , Herschel C. Pangborn , Neera Jain

This paper concerns the consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with linear or linearized dynamics. An observer-type protocol based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents is proposed. The consensus of such a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

We consider the synthesis problem of a multi-agent system under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications representing bounded-time tasks that need to be satisfied recurrently over an infinite horizon. Motivated by the limited approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper presents a novel approach for resilient distributed consensus in multiagent networks when dealing with adversarial agents imprecision in states observed by normal agents. Traditional resilient distributed consensus algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Christopher A. Lee , Waseem Abbas

This paper investigates a robust positive consensus problem for a class of heterogeneous high-order multi-agent systems subject to external inputs. Compared with existing multi-agent consensus results, the most distinct feature of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Ruonan Li , Yutao Tang , Shurong Li

We propose a receding horizon control strategy that readily handles systems that exhibit interval-wise total energy constraints on the input control sequence. The approach is based on a variable optimization horizon length and contractive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Eduardo Arvelo , Nuno C. Martins

In this work we study a distributed optimal output consensus problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems where the agents aim to reach consensus with the purpose of minimizing the sum of private convex costs. Based on output…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Li Li , Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie

This paper considers the multi-dimensional consensus in networked systems, where some of the agents might be misbehaving (or faulty). Despite the influence of these misbehaviors, the benign agents aim to reach an agreement while avoiding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Jiaqi Yan , Xiuxian Li , Yilin Mo , Changyun Wen

In this paper, we formulate and solve a randomized optimal consensus problem for multi-agent systems with stochastically time-varying interconnection topology. The considered multi-agent system with a simple randomized iterating rule…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this technical note, we investigate an optimal output consensus problem for heterogeneous uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems. The considered agents are described by high-order nonlinear dynamics subject to both static and dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Yutao Tang , Xinghu Wang