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The paper studies a distributed constrained optimization problem, where multiple agents connected in a network collectively minimize the sum of individual objective functions subject to a global constraint being an intersection of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Jinlong Lei , Han-Fu Chen , Hai-Tao Fang

The field of Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an active area of research within Artificial Intelligence, with an increasingly important impact in industrial and other real-world applications. Within a MAS, autonomous agents interact to pursue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh

We address the problem of model-free distributed stabilization of heterogeneous multi-agent systems using reinforcement learning (RL). Two algorithms are developed. The first algorithm solves a centralized linear quadratic regulator (LQR)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Gangshan Jing , He Bai , Jemin George , Aranya Chakrabortty , Piyush K. Sharma

We consider the distributed optimization problem, where a group of agents work together to optimize a common objective by communicating with neighboring agents and performing local computations. For a given algorithm, we use tools from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

This paper considers the cooperative output regulation problem for linear multi-agent systems with a directed communication graph, heterogeneous linear subsystems, and an exosystem whose output is available to only a subset of subsystems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-26 Zhongkui Li , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Zhengtao Ding

This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing the output synchronization problem in unknown heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) using noisy data. Unlike existing studies that focus on noiseless data, we introduce a distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Yifei Li , Wenjie Liu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

This paper is devoted to the distributed continuous-time optimization problem with time-varying objective functions and time-varying nonlinear inequality constraints. Different from most studied distributed optimization problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Shan Sun , Wei Ren

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

In this work, we propose a continuous-time distributed optimization algorithm with guaranteed zero coupling constraint violation and apply it to safe distributed control in the presence of multiple control barrier functions (CBF). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Xiao Tan , Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this article, we present an algorithm that drives the outputs of a network of agents to jointly track the solutions of time-varying optimization problems in a way that is robust to asynchrony in the agents' operations. We consider three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Longmire , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Hale

This paper develops an optimal relative output-feedback based solution to the containment control problem of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems. A distributed optimal control protocol is presented for the followers to not only assure…

This paper focuses on an online version of the emerging distributed constrained aggregative optimization framework, which is particularly suited for applications arising in cooperative robotics. Agents in a network want to minimize the sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Andrea Camisa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Most solutions to the inventory management problem assume a centralization of information that is incompatible with organisational constraints in real supply chain networks. The inventory management problem is a well-known planning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Marwan Mousa , Damien van de Berg , Niki Kotecha , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio-Chanona , Max Mowbray

This paper is concerned with the distributed linear quadratic optimal control problem. In particular, we consider a suboptimal version of the distributed optimal control problem for undirected multi-agent networks. Given a multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Junjie Jiao , Harry L. Trentelman , M. Kanat Camlibel

In this paper, a time-varying distributed convex optimization problem is studied for continuous-time multi-agent systems. Control algorithms are designed for the cases of single-integrator and double-integrator dynamics. Two discontinuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

A common approach to distributed control design is to impose sparsity constraints on the controller structure. Such constraints, however, may greatly complicate the control design procedure. This paper puts forward an alternative structure,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Daria Madjidian , Leonid Mirkin

In this paper we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of dynamic directed communication links among active nodes. We propose three communication-efficient distributed algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

Efforts in this paper seek to combine graph theory with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) as a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to determine forward-in-time, real-time, approximate optimal controllers for distributed multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Huyen Dinh , Patrick Walters , Warren Dixon

This work investigates the distributed constrained optimization problem under inter-agent communication delays from the perspective of passivity. First, we propose a continuous-time algorithm for distributed constrained optimization with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Mengmou Li , Shunya Yamashita , Takeshi Hatanaka , Graziano Chesi

This paper investigates the distributed fixed point seeking problem of sum-separable stochastic operators over the multi-agent network. Based on inexact Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iterations, the communication-efficient distributed algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Fan Li , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Yang Shi , Tao Yang