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Formation strategy is one of the most important parts of many multi-agent systems with many applications in real world problems. In this paper, a framework for learning this task in a limited domain (restricted environment) is proposed. In…

Formation control deals with the design of decentralized control laws that stabilize mobile, autonomous agents at prescribed distances from each other. We call any configuration of the agents a target configuration if it satisfies the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Başar

Controllability of multi-agent systems is determined by the interconnection topologies. In practice, losing agents can change the topologies of multi-agent systems, which may affect the controllability. This paper studies non-fragility of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Bin Zhao , Yongqiang Guan , Long Wang

This paper introduces an online data-driven learning scheme designed to address a novel problem in propensity formation and containment control for fully heterogeneous multi-agent systems. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Ao Cao , Fuyong Wang , Zhongxin Liu

Autonomous shape and structure formation is an important problem in the domain of large-scale multi-agent systems. In this paper, we propose a 3D structure representation method and a distributed structure formation strategy where settled…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Tamzidul Mina , Wonse Jo , Shyam S. Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this work, we introduce a Z-control strategy for multi-agent systems of arbitrary order, aimed at driving the agents toward consensus in the highest-order observable state. The proposed framework supports both direct and indirect control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Angela Monti , Fasma Diele

A novel local interaction control method (LICM) is proposed in this paper to realize the formation control of multi-agent system (MAS). A local interaction leader follower (LILF) structure is provided by coupling the advantages of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Luoyin Zhao , Zheping Yan , Yuqing Wang , Raye Chen-Hua Yeow

The paradigmatic formation control problem of steering a multi-agent system towards a balanced circular formation has been the subject of extensive studies in the control engineering community. Indeed, this is due to the fact that it shares…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Pietro DeLellis , Franco Garofalo , Francesco Lo Iudice

This article proposes a distributed control method for matrix-scaled multi-agent networks aimed at achieving convergence within a user-defined time frame. The control law of each individual agent relies only on information from neighboring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 K. P. Sunny , Rakesh R. Warier

In this paper, we develop new methods for the analysis of decentralized control systems and we apply them to formation control problems. The basic set-up consists of a system with multiple agents corresponding to the nodes of a graph whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-20 M. -A. Belabbas

This paper investigates a distributed formation control problem for networked robots, with the global objective of achieving predefined time-varying formations in an environment with obstacles. A novel fixed-time behavioral approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Ning Zhou , Xiaodong Cheng , Yuanqing Xia , Yanjun Liu

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 proposes an event-triggered boundary control for the safe stabilization of the Stefan PDE system with actuator dynamics. The control law is designed by applying Zero-Order Hold (ZOH) to the continuous-time safe stabilizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Shumon Koga , Cenk Demir , Miroslav Krstic

Group behavior has received much attention as a test case of self-organization. There has been much written in recent years to investigate interactions within groups of agents. These agents can be animals moving in an interactive way, such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-14 Max D. Steel

This paper introduces a novel approach for achieving fixed-time tracking consensus control in multiagent systems (MASs). Departing from the reliance on traditional controllers, our innovative controller integrates modified tuning and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Kewei Zhou , Ziming Wang , Zhihao Chen , Xin Wang

The ubiquitous interdependencies among higher-dimensional states of neighboring agents can be characterized by matrix-weighted networks. This paper examines event-triggered global consensus of matrix-weighted networks subject to actuator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Yuanlong Li , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of 2nd order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is a subset of $R^3$ , with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We present Multi-Agent gatekeeper, a framework that provides provable safety guarantees for leader-follower formation control in cluttered 3D environments. Existing methods face a trad-off: online planners and controllers lack formal safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Thomas Marshall Vielmetti , Devansh R Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

We introduce a distributed control architecture for a class of heterogeneous, nonlinear dynamical agents moving in the "string" formation, while guaranteeing trajectory tracking, collision avoidance and the preservation of the formation's…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Serban Sabau , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu , Lucian Busoniu , Ali Jadbabaie