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Investigating cooperativity of interlocutors is central in studying pragmatics of dialogue. Models of conversation that only assume cooperative agents fail to explain the dynamics of strategic conversations. Thus, we investigate the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Anthony Sicilia , Tristan Maidment , Pat Healy , Malihe Alikhani

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 present a multi-agent decision-making framework for the emergent coordination of autonomous agents whose intents are initially undecided. Dynamic non-cooperative games have been used to encode multi-agent interaction, but ambiguity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Haimin Hu , Kensuke Nakamura , Kai-Chieh Hsu , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Jaime Fernández Fisac

This paper presents an iterative approach for heterogeneous multi-agent route planning in environments with unknown resource distributions. We focus on a team of robots with diverse capabilities tasked with executing missions specified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Gustavo A. Cardona , Kaier Liang , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Intelligent physical systems as embodied cognitive systems must perform high-level reasoning while concurrently managing an underlying control architecture. The link between cognition and control must manage the problem of converting…

A key challenge in multi-robot and multi-agent systems is generating solutions that are robust to other self-interested or even adversarial parties who actively try to prevent the agents from achieving their goals. The practicality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Trong Nghia Hoang , Yuchen Xiao , Kavinayan Sivakumar , Christopher Amato , Jonathan How

This paper proposes a novel game-theoretical autonomous decision-making framework to address a task allocation problem for a swarm of multiple agents. We consider cooperation of self-interested agents, and show that our proposed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Inmo Jang , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

A central problem of surveillance is to monitor multiple targets moving in a large-scale, obstacle-ridden environment with occlusions. This paper presents a novel principled Partially Observable Markov Decision Process-based approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Prabhu Natarajan , Trong Nghia Hoang , Kian Hsiang Low , Mohan Kankanhalli

In this paper, we consider the cooperative output regulation problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems in the presence of communication constraints. Under standard assumptions on the agents dynamics, we propose a distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Abdelhamid Tayebi

In this paper, we investigate the distributed optimal control problem for a kind of nonlinear multi-agent systems. In particular,both the state and the system dynamic structures of each agent are private and can only be shared among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Ruixue Li , Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Xun Li , Juanjuan Xu

Traditional approaches to the design of multi-agent navigation algorithms consider the environment as a fixed constraint, despite the influence of spatial constraints on agents' performance. Yet hand-designing conducive environment layouts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents in shared environments under decentralized conditions is a long-standing challenge in robotics and artificial intelligence. This work addresses the problem of decentralized goal assignment for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Murad Ismayilov , Edwin Meriaux , Shuo Wen , Gregory Dudek

Complex scheduling problems require a large amount computation power and innovative solution methods. The objective of this paper is the conception and implementation of a multi-agent system that is applicable in various problem domains.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

Almost all multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms without communication follow the principle of centralized training with decentralized execution. During centralized training, agents can be guided by the same signals, such as the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Zhiwei Xu , Bin Zhang , Dapeng Li , Zeren Zhang , Guangchong Zhou , Hao Chen , Guoliang Fan

We consider cooperative multi-agent consensus optimization problems over both static and time-varying communication networks, where only local communications are allowed. The objective is to minimize the sum of agent-specific possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Necdet Serhat Aybat

Achieving seamless coordination in cooperative games is a crucial challenge in artificial intelligence, particularly when players operate under incomplete information. While communication helps, it is not always feasible. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shenghui Chen , Shufang Zhu , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Ufuk Topcu

Many safety-critical real-world problems, such as autonomous driving and collaborative robots, are of a distributed multi-agent nature. To optimize the performance of these systems while ensuring safety, we can cast them as distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Abdullah Tokmak , Thomas B. Schön , Dominik Baumann

With the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI), we're seeing more scenarios that require AI to work closely with other agents, whose goals and strategies might not be known beforehand. However, existing approaches for training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zuyuan Zhang , Hanhan Zhou , Mahdi Imani , Taeyoung Lee , Tian Lan

In this paper, we address the multi-robot collaborative perception problem, specifically in the context of multi-view infilling for distributed semantic segmentation. This setting entails several real-world challenges, especially those…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nathaniel Glaser , Yen-Cheng Liu , Junjiao Tian , Zsolt Kira

In the context of search and rescue, we consider the problem of mission planning for heterogeneous teams that can include human, robotic, and animal agents. The problem is tackled using a mixed integer mathematical programming formulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Eduardo Feo Flushing , Luca M. Gambardella , Gianni A. Di Caro