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This letter studies the problem of cooperative nearest-neighbor control of multi-agent systems where each agent can only realize a finite set of control points. Under the assumption that the underlying graph representing the communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Muhammad Zaki Almuzakki , Bayu Jayawardhana

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enhance coordination among these agents, a distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shengchao Hu , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Control of multi-agent systems via game theory is investigated. Assume a system level object is given, the utility functions for individual agents are designed to convert a multi-agent system into a potential game. First, for fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Ting Liu , Jinhuan Wang , Daizhan Cheng

This paper focuses on the multi-agent synchronization problem with an open-loop unstable leader and followers under the switching topologies. For this issue, the typical approach is intermittent communication (including a spanning tree…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Haotian Xu , Bohui Wang , Shuai Liu , Chao Shen , Xiangyu Meng , Guanghui Wen

This paper develops a control-theoretic framework for analyzing agentic systems embedded within feedback control loops, where an AI agent may adapt controller parameters, select among control strategies, invoke external tools, reconfigure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Ali Eslami , Jiangbo Yu

We consider the optimal multi-agent persistent monitoring problem defined by a team of cooperating agents visiting a set of nodes (targets) on a graph with the objective of minimizing a measure of overall node state uncertainty. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Nan Zhou , Christos G. Cassandras , Xi Yu , Sean B. Andersson

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

Signed networks have been a topic of recent interest in the network control community as they allow studying antagonistic interactions in multi-agent systems. Although dynamical characteristics of signed networks have been well-studied,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Siavash Alemzadeh , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Mehran Mesbahi

Multi-agent networks are often modeled as interaction graphs, where the nodes represent the agents and the edges denote some direct interactions. The robustness of a multi-agent network to perturbations such as failures, noise, or malicious…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

Adaptive synchronization protocols for heterogeneous multi-agent network are investigated. The interaction between each of the agents is carried out through a directed graph. We highlight the lack of communication between agents and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Miguel F. Arevalo-Castiblanco , Duvan A. Tellez-Castro , Jorge Sofrony , Eduardo Mojica-Nava

Consider a consensus-driven multi-agent dynamic system. The interaction range, which defines the set of neighbors for each agent, plays a key role in influencing connectivity of the underlying network. In this paper, we assume the system is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Saad J Saleh

This paper deals with the derivation of the mean-field limit for multi-agent systems on a large class of sparse graphs. More specifically, the case of non-exchangeable multi-agent systems consisting of non-identical agents is addressed. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , David Poyato , Juan Soler

A dynamical system is controllable if by imposing appropriate external signals on a subset of its nodes, it can be driven from any initial state to any desired state in finite time. Here we study the impact of various network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-16 Márton Pósfai , Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Albert-László Barabási

An autonomous and resilient controller is proposed for leader-follower multi-agent systems under uncertainties and cyber-physical attacks. The leader is assumed non-autonomous with a nonzero control input, which allows changing the team…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

In this paper we investigate the problem of the sudden disconnection of an edge in a discrete-time multi-agent consensus network. If the graph remains strongly connected, the multi-agent system still achieves consensus, but in general,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Gianfranco Parlangeli , Maria Elena Valcher

This paper considers the leader-follower control problem for a linear multi-agent system with directed communication topology and linear nonidentical uncertain coupling subject to integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). A consensus-type…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii , Guanghui Wen

An embodied agent constantly influences its environment and is influenced by it. We use the sensorimotor loop to model these interactions and thereby we can quantify different information flows in the system by various information theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Carlotta Langer , Nihat Ay

In this paper, we study a model reduction technique for leader-follower networked multi-agent systems defined on weighted, undirected graphs with arbitrary linear multivariable agent dynamics. In the network graph of this network, nodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Hidde-Jan Jongsma , Petar Mlinarić , Sara Grundel , Peter Benner , Harry L. Trentelman

Our ability to control network dynamical systems is often hindered by constraints on the number and nature of the available control actions, which make controlling the whole network unfeasible. In this manuscript, we focus on the case where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Camilla Ancona , Francesco Lo Iudice , Antonio Coppola , Pietro De Lellis , Franco Garofalo

This paper investigates a pattern formation control problem for a multi-agent system modeled with given interaction topology, in which $m$ of the $n$ agents are chosen as leaders and consequently a control signal is added to each of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Tianhao Li , Yibei Li , Zhixin Liu , Xiaoming Hu