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This paper presents an angle-based approach for distributed formation shape stabilization of multi-agent systems in the plane. We develop an angle rigidity theory to study whether a planar framework can be determined by angles between…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Gangshan Jing , Guofeng Zhang , Heung Wing Joseph Lee , Long Wang

Based on the practical scenario where collisions in formation control may lead to agent damage, this paper investigates the integrated problem of distance-based formation control and collision avoidance for multi-agent systems governed by…

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This work investigates the self-organization of multi-agent systems into closed trajectories, a common requirement in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance tasks. In such scenarios, smooth, unbiased control signals save energy and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Dimitria Silveria , Kleber Cabral , Peter Jardine , Sidney Givigi

Formation control methods of connected and automated vehicles have been proposed to smoothly switch the structure of vehicular formations in different scenarios. In the previous research, simulations are often conducted to verify the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Mengchi Cai , Qing Xu , Chunying Yang , Jianghong Dong , Chaoyi Chen , Jiawei Wang , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

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

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

Formation control is a key problem in the coordination of multiple agents. It arises new challenges to traditional formation control strategy when the communication among agents is affected by uncertainties. This paper considers the robust…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Dongkun Han , Dimitra Panagou

This paper presents scalable controller synthesis methods for heterogeneous and partially heterogeneous systems. First, heterogeneous systems composed of different subsystems that are interconnected over a directed graph are considered.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Yvonne R. Stürz , Annika Eichler , Roy S. Smith

Distributed formation maneuver control refers to the problem of maneuvering a group of agents to change their formation shape by adjusting the motions of partial agents, where the controller of each agent only requires local information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Tao He , Gangshan Jing

This paper studies distributed maneuver control of multi-agent formations in arbitrary dimensions. The objective is to control the translation and scale of the formation while maintaining the desired formation pattern. Unlike conventional…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Shiyu Zhao , Daniel Zelazo

Multi-vehicle coordinated decision making and control can improve traffic efficiency while guaranteeing driving safety. Formation control is a typical multi-vehicle coordination method in the multi-lane scenario. Among the existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Mengchi Cai , Qing Xu , Chaoyi Chen , Jiawei Wang , Keqiang Li , Jianqiang Wang , Qianying Zhu

In many multi-agent systems, communication is limited by bandwidth, latency, and energy constraints. Designing controllers that achieve coordination and safety with minimal communication is critical for scalable and reliable deployment.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Mo Yang , Jing Yu , Necmiye Ozay

A multi-agent system comprises numerous agents that autonomously make decisions to collectively accomplish tasks, drawing significant attention for their wide-ranging applications. Within this context, formation control emerges as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Anna Fujioka , Masaki Ogura , Naoki Wakamiya

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

In this paper, we deal with the problem of coordinating multiple robots to build 3-D structures. This problem consists of a set of mobile robots that interact with each other in order to autonomously build a predefined 3-D structure. Our…

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In this paper, we propose a distance-based formation control strategy that can enable four mobile agents, which are modelled by a group of single-integrators, to achieve the desired formation shape specified by using six consistent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Myoung-Chul Park , Zhiyong Sun , Minh Hoang Trinh , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

This paper addresses the problem of end-effector formation control for a mixed group of two-link manipulators moving in a horizontal plane that comprises of fully-actuated manipulators and underactuated manipulators with only the second…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zhiyu Peng , Bayu Jayawardhana , Xin Xin

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

In this paper we study the optimal formation control of multiple agents whose interaction parameters are adjusted upon a cost function consisting of both the control energy and the geometrical performance. By optimizing the interaction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Huang Huang , Changbin Yu

This brief proposes a distributed formation control strategy via matrix-weighted Laplacian that can achieve a similar formation in 2-D planar using inter-agent relative displacement measurement. Formation patterns that include translation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Zhipeng Fan , Yujie Xu , Mingyu Fu , Han Sun , Weiqiu Zhang , Heng Zhang