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Designing learning algorithms that are resistant to perturbations of the underlying data distribution is a problem of wide practical and theoretical importance. We present a general approach to this problem focusing on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Andreas Maurer , Daniela A. Parletta , Andrea Paudice , Massimiliano Pontil

In this paper, we propose several consensus protocols of the first and second order for networked multi-agent systems and provide explicit representations for their asymptotic states. These representations involve the eigenprojection of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Rafig Agaev , Pavel Chebotarev

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

Distributed control increases system scalability, flexibility, and redundancy. Foundational to such decentralisation is consensus formation, by which decision-making and coordination are achieved. However, decentralised multi-agent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Agathe Bouis , Christopher Lowe , Ruaridh A. Clark , Malcolm Macdonald

Robust stabilization conditions for uncertain switched affine systems subject to a unitary input delay are presented. They are obtained through the Lyapunov framework and a min-switching state-feedback predictive control law. The result…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Gerson Portilla , Carolina Albea , Alexandre Seuret

This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hannes Petrenz , Johannes Köhler , Francesco Borrelli

This paper develops a novel approach to the consensus problem of multi-agent systems by minimizing a weighted state error with neighbor agents via linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Existing consensus control algorithms only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang , Lihua Xie

We revisit an algorithm for distributed consensus optimization proposed in 2010 by J. Wang and N. Elia. By means of a Lyapunov-based analysis, we prove input-to-state stability of the algorithm relative to a closed invariant set composed of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Michelangelo Bin , Ivano Notarnicola , Thomas Parisini

This paper studies multi-agent systems with nonlinear consensus protocols, i.e., only nonlinear measurements of the states are available to agents. The solutions of these systems are understood in Filippov sense since the possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Jieqiang Wei , Xinlei Yi , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

In this paper, we present a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for dynamically decoupled nonlinear systems which are subject to state constraints, coupled state constraints and input constraints. In the proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Adrian Wiltz , Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We consider the problem of multi-agent consensus where some agents are subject to faults/attacks and might make updates arbitrarily. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued (i.e., quantized) states under directed communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

In this report we provide a decentralized robust control approach, which guarantees that connectivity of a multi-agent network is maintained when certain bounded input terms are added to the control strategy. Our main motivation for this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Dimitris Boskos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper establishes a theoretical framework to describe the transition from consensus to stable clustering in multi-agent systems with nonlinear, cooperative interactions. We first establish a sharp threshold for consensus. For a broad…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Anthony Couthures , Gustave Bainier , Vineeth Satheeskumar Varma , Samson Lasaulce , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu

This paper addresses the problem of reaching consensus under input saturation and intermittent communication, which can hinder the convergence of the system. We propose a method that translates the consensus into an equivalent stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Thales C. Silva , M. Ani Hsieh

This paper investigates the robust stabilisation of a class of fractional-order non-linear systems via fixed-order dynamic output feedback controller in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The systematic stabilisation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Elyar Zavary , Mahdi Sojoodi

In this paper, finite-time state consensus problems for continuous-time multi-agent systems are discussed, and two distributive protocols, which ensure that the states of agents reach an agreement in a finite time, are presented. By…

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

We consider the problem of designing control laws for stochastic jump linear systems where the disturbances are drawn randomly from a finite sample space according to an unknown distribution, which is estimated from a finite sample of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Mathijs Schuurmans , Pantelis Sopasakis , Panagiotis Patrinos

Reinforcement learning is showing great potentials in robotics applications, including autonomous driving, robot manipulation and locomotion. However, with complex uncertainties in the real-world environment, it is difficult to guarantee…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Minghao Han , Yuan Tian , Lixian Zhang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

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