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This paper treats the problem of the merging of formations, where the underlying model of a formation is graphical. We first analyze the rigidity and persistence of meta-formations, which are formations obtained by connecting several rigid…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-10-16 Julien M. Hendrickx , Changbin Yu , Baris Fidan , Brian D. O. Anderson

This paper proposes three different distributed event-triggered control algorithms to achieve leader-follower consensus for a network of Euler-Lagrange agents. We firstly propose two model-independent algorithms for a subclass of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Qingchen Liu , Mengbin Ye , Jiahu Qin , Changbin Yu

Formation control with the flocking approach is an efficient method that can reach the formation without determining the agent's position. This paper focuses on reaching the circular formation around the leader or target with a specific…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Seyed Sajadi , Hajar Atrianfar

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

This paper makes the first attempt to show how information exchange rules represented by a network having multiple layers (multiplex information networks) can be designed for enabling spatially evolving multiagent formations. Toward this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Dzung Tran , Tansel Yucelen

We show in this paper that a small subset of agents of a formation of n agents in Euclidean space can control the position and orientation of the entire formation. We consider here formations tasked with maintaining inter-agent distances at…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

This paper proposes a label-free controller for a second-order multi-agent system to cooperatively fence a moving target of variational velocity into a convex hull formed by the agents whereas maintaining a rigid formation. Therein, no…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Bin-Bin Hu , Hai-Tao Zhang , Yang Shi

This work presents a rigorous analysis of the adverse effects of cyber-physical attacks on the performance of multi-agent consensus with event-triggered control protocols. It is shown how a strategic malicious attack on sensors and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Farzaneh Tatari , Aquib Mustafa , Majid Mazouchi , Hamidreza Modares , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

This paper investigates event-triggered consensus tracking in nonlinear semi-strict-feedback multi-agent systems involving one leader and multiple followers. We first employ radial basis function neural networks and backstepping techniques…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Ziming Wang , Yun Gao , Apostolos I. Rikos , Ning Pang , Yiding Ji

With the unceasing growth of intelligent production lines that integrate sensors, actuators, and controllers in a wireless communication environment via internet of things (IoT), we design an event-triggered boundary controller for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Mamadou Diagne , Iasson Karafyllis

This paper considers the distributed leader-follower stress-matrix-based affine formation control problem of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems with static and dynamic leaders. In leader-follower multi-agent formation control, the aim…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Okechi Onuoha , Suleiman Kurawa , Zezhi Tang , Yi Dong

This paper investigates the formation control problem of heterogeneous, autonomous agents that communicate over a wireless multiple access channel. Instead of avoiding interference through orthogonal node-to-node transmissions, we exploit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Michael Epp , Fabio Molinari , Jörg Raisch

Decentralized control systems are widely used in a number of situations and applications. In order for these systems to function properly and achieve their desired goals, information must be propagated between agents, which requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Paul Griffioen , Raffaele Romagnoli , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

Formation control of autonomous agents can be seen as a physical system of individuals interacting with local potentials, and whose evolution can be described by a Lagrangian function. In this paper, we construct and implement forced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Leonardo Colombo , Hector Garcia de Marina

This article addresses the moving target enclosing control problem for nonholonomic multi-agent systems with guaranteed network connectivity and collision avoidance. We propose a novel control scheme to handle distance constraints imposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Boyin Zheng , Yahui Hao , Lu Liu

Non-uniform scaling control of formation enables multi-agent systems to adjust their shape by scaling with different ratios along different coordinate axes, offering enhanced flexibility in complex environments. However, like most existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Tao He , Gangshan Jing

This paper addresses the optimal time-invariant formation tracking problem with the aim of providing a distributed solution for multi-agent systems with second-order integrator dynamics. In the literature, most of the results related to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Marco Fabris , Giulio Fattore , Angelo Cenedese

This paper examines the event-triggered consensus of the multi-agent system on matrix-weighted networks, where the interdependencies among higher-dimensional states of neighboring agents are characterized by matrix-weighted edges in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Dewei Li , Lin Liu

This paper revisits the classical multi-agent average consensus problem for which many different event-triggered control strategies have been proposed over the last decade. Many of the earliest versions of these works conclude asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 James Berneburg , Cameron Nowzari

Event-triggered approach to networked control systems is used to reduce the workload of the communication network. For the static output-feedback continuous event-trigger may generate an infinite number of sampling instants in finite time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Anton Selivanov , Emilia Fridman