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A distributed adaptive control strategy is developed for heterogeneous multiagent systems in nonlinear Brunovsky form with \({\pd}\)-dimensional $n^{\text{th}}$-order dynamics, operating under time-triggered switching communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Armel Koulong , Ali Pakniyat

This paper gives convex conditions for synthesis of a distributed control system for large-scale networked nonlinear dynamic systems. It is shown that the technique of control contraction metrics (CCMs) can be extended to this problem by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Humberto Stein Shiromoto , Max Revay , Ian R. Manchester

We study distributed control for a network of nonlinear, differentially flat subsystems subject to dynamic coupling. Although differential flatness simplifies planning and control for isolated subsystems, the presence of coupling can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Fengjun Yang , Jake Welde , Nikolai Matni

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

This paper presents a novel dynamic coverage control algorithm allowing a group of robots to track an optimal-deployment configuration for arbitrary time-varying density functions. Building on singular perturbation theory, the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Brandon Bao , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

We present a sequential distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme for cooperative control of multi-agent systems with dynamically decoupled heterogeneous nonlinear agents subject to individual constraints. In the scheme, we explore…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Matthias Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

The goal of this report is to define abstractions for multi-agent systems with feedback interconnection in their dynamics. In the proposed decentralized framework, we specify a finite or countable transition system for each agent which only…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Dimitris Boskos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

This paper investigates a distributed formation tracking control law for large-scale networks of mechanical systems. In particular, the formation network is represented by a directed communication graph with leaders and followers, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 N. Javanmardi , P. Borja , M. J. Yazdanpanah , J. M. A. Scherpen

This paper addresses the problem of distance- and orientation-based formation control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in 3D space, under static and undirected communication topologies. More specifically, we design a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Alexandros Nikou , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Unlike the case with identical neighboring agents whose actions are mirrored, the problem of distributed formation control design with heterogeneous sensing is not straightforward. In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Jin Chen , Bayu Jayawardhana , Hector Garcia de Marina

This paper proposes an approach to addresses the control challenges posed by a fault-induced uncertainty in both the dynamics and control input effectiveness of a class of hierarchical nonlinear systems in which the high-level dynamics is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Sina Ameli , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

In this paper, we investigate the distributed optimal control problem for a kind of nonlinear multi-agent systems. In particular,both the state and the system dynamic structures of each agent are private and can only be shared among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Ruixue Li , Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Xun Li , Juanjuan Xu

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative formation control for multi-agent systems with limited resources. We consider a team of robots tasked with achieving a desired formation from an arbitrary initial configuration. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Evangelos Psomiadis , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, a distributed tracking control scheme with distributed estimators has been developed for a leader-follower multi-agent system with measurement noises and directed interconnection topology. It is supposed that each follower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Jiangping Hu , Gang Feng

This paper considers an internal model based distributed control approach to the cooperative output regulation problem of heterogeneous linear time-invariant multiagent systems over fixed directed communication graph topologies. First, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Selahattin Burak Sarsilmaz , Tansel Yucelen

This paper presents a distributed algorithm for controlling the deployment of a team of mobile agents in formations whose shapes can be characterized by a broad class of polygons, including regular ones, where each agent occupies a corner…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Hector Garcia de Marina , Bayu Jayawardhana , Ming Cao

Distributed formation maneuver control refers to the problem of maneuvering a group of agents to change their formation shape by adjusting the motions of partial agents, where the controller of each agent only requires local information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Tao He , Gangshan Jing

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji