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A design framework recently has been developed to stabilize interconnected multiagent systems in a distributed manner, and systematically capture the architectural aspect of cyber-physical systems. Such a control theoretic framework,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Vahid Rezaei , Jafar Haadi Jafarian , Douglas C. Sicker

Manipulation tasks can often be decomposed into multiple subtasks performed in parallel, e.g., sliding an object to a goal pose while maintaining contact with a table. Individual subtasks can be achieved by task-axis controllers defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mohit Sharma , Jacky Liang , Jialiang Zhao , Alex LaGrassa , Oliver Kroemer

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

This paper considers the robustness analysis and distributed $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$ (H-infinity) controller synthesis for a platoon of connected vehicles with undirected topologies. We first formulate a unified model to describe the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Yang Zheng , Shengbo Eben Li , Keqiang Li , Wei Ren

We address the optimal dynamic formation problem in mobile leader-follower networks where an optimal formation is generated to maximize a given objective function while continuously preserving connectivity. We show that in a convex mission…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Xinmiao Sun , Christos G. Cassandras

This paper proposes an adaptation mechanism for heterogeneous multi-agent systems to align the agents' internal parameters, based on enforced consensus through strong couplings. Unlike homogeneous systems, where exact consensus is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Hyungbo Shim , Jin Gyu Lee , B. D. O. Anderson

For most existing prescribed performance formation control methods, performance requirements are not directly imposed on the relative states between agents but on the consensus error, which lacks a clear physical interpretation of their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Kun Li , Kai Zhao , Yongduan Song , Lihua Xie

We study the problem of control synthesis for multi-agent systems, to achieve complex, high-level, long-term goals that are assigned to each agent individually. As the agents might not be capable of satisfying their respective goals by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Motivated by the recent interest in formal methods-based control of multi-agent systems, we adopt a bottom-up approach. Each agent is subject to a local signal temporal logic task that may depend on other agents behavior. These dependencies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, a unified multi-vehicle formation control framework for Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (ICVs) that can apply to multiple traffic scenarios is proposed. In the one-dimensional scenario, different formation geometries are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Qing Xu , Mengchi Cai , Keqiang Li , Biao Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Xiangbin Wu

Adaptive multi-agent formation control, which requires the formation to flexibly adjust along with the quantity variations of agents in a decentralized manner, belongs to one of the most challenging issues in multi-agent systems, especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuming Xiang , Sizhao Li , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

When a group of heterogeneous node dynamics are diffusively coupled with a high coupling gain, the group exhibits a collective emergent behavior which is governed by a simple algebraic average of the node dynamics called the blended…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Jin Gyu Lee , Thomas Berger , Stephan Trenn , Hyungbo Shim

Recent progress in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent collaboration highlights the power of structured communication in enabling collective intelligence. However, existing methods largely rely on static or graph-based inter-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Song Wang , Zhen Tan , Zihan Chen , Shuang Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Jundong Li

In this paper, we present a distributed optimal multiagent control scheme for quadrotor formation tracking under localization errors. Our control architecture is based on a leader-follower approach, where a single leader quadrotor tracks a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Clinton Enwerem , John Baras , Danilo Romero

This paper deals with the H2 suboptimal state containment control problem for homogeneous linear multi-agent systems and the H2 suboptimal output containment control problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. For both problems,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Yuan Gao , Junjie Jiao , Zhongkui Li , Sandra Hirche

Despite longstanding interest, controller synthesis remains challenging for networks of heterogeneous, nonlinear agents. Moreover, the requirements for computational scalability and information privacy have become increasingly critical.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Ingyu Jang , Leila J. Bridgeman

We present a method to control a text-to-image generative model to produce training data useful for supervised learning. Unlike previous works that employ an open-loop approach and pre-define prompts to generate new data using either a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Teresa Yeo , Andrei Atanov , Harold Benoit , Aleksandr Alekseev , Ruchira Ray , Pooya Esmaeil Akhoondi , Amir Zamir

This paper is concerned with a formation shaping problem for point agents in a two-dimensional space, where control avoids the possibility of reflection ambiguities. One solution for this type of problems was given first for three or four…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Toshiharu Sugie , Fei Tong , Brian D. O. Anderson , Zhiyong Sun

We propose a new multi-agent task grammar to encode collaborative tasks for a team of heterogeneous agents that can have overlapping capabilities. The grammar allows users to specify the relationship between agents and parts of the task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Amy Fang , Hadas Kress-Gazit

In this work, we study an optimal control problem for a multi-agent system modeled by an undirected formation graph with nodes describing the kinematics of each agent, given by a left-invariant control system on a Lie group. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Leonardo Colombo , Dimos Dimarogonas