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This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

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This work investigates a reduced-complexity adaptive methodology to consensus tracking for a team of uncertain high-order nonlinear systems with switched (possibly asynchronous) dynamics. It is well known that high-order nonlinear systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Maolong Lv , Wenwu Yu , Jinde Cao , Simone Baldi

In this paper, we investigate a decentralized formation control algorithm for an undirected formation control model. Unlike other formation control problems where only the shape of a configuration counts, we emphasize here also its…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xudong Chen

This paper derives nonlinear feedback control synthesis for general control affine systems using second-order actions---the needle variations of optimal control---as the basis for choosing each control response to the current state. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Giorgos Mamakoukas , Malcolm A. MacIver , Todd D. Murphey

This paper studies the integrated position and attitude control problem for multi-agent systems of 3D rigid bodies. While the state-of-the-art method in [Olfati-Saber and Murray, 2004] established the theoretical foundation for rigid-body…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Chunfeng Cui , Liqun Qi , Hao Chen , Xiangke Wang

We investigate the stability and robustness properties of a continuification-based strategy for the control of large-scale multiagent systems. Within continuation-based strategy, one transforms the microscopic, agent-level description of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Maurizio Porfiri , Mario di Bernardo

Human writers often begin their stories with an overarching mental scene, where they envision the interactions between characters and their environment. Inspired by this creative process, we propose a novel approach to long-form story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zehao Chen , Rong Pan , Haoran Li

In this paper, we consider a robust consensus tracking problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with time-varying interconnection topologies. Based on common Lyapunov function and internal model techniques, both state and output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Yutao Tang

In this paper, we present a new leader-follower type solution to the formation maneuvering problem for multiple, nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots. The solution is based on the graph that models the coordination among the robots being a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Milad Khaledyan , Marcio de Queiroz

Experimental advances enabling high-resolution external control create new opportunities to produce materials with exotic properties. In this work, we investigate how a multi-agent reinforcement learning approach can be used to design…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-15 Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

This Technical Note presents a simple control approach for global trajectory tracking and formation control of underactuated surface vessels equipped with only two propellers. The control approach exploits the inherent cascaded structure of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Bo Wang , Antonio Loria

In this paper, we study cooperative multi-agent systems in which the target objective and the controls exercised by the agents are dependent on the choices they made at initial system time. Such systems have been investigated in several…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Ge Guo , Wing Shing Wong , Zhongchang Liu

This paper proposes a distributed scheme with different estimators for the event-triggered formation control of polytopic homogeneously scheduled linear parameter-varying (LPV) multi-agent systems (MAS). Each agent consists of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Gerald Gebhardt , Hamideh Saadabadi , Herbert Werner

This paper introduces a generative model designed for multimodal control over text-to-image foundation generative AI models such as Stable Diffusion, specifically tailored for engineering design synthesis. Our model proposes parametric,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Rui Zhou , Yanxia Zhang , Chenyang Yuan , Frank Permenter , Nikos Arechiga , Matt Klenk , Faez Ahmed

This paper investigates the problem of cooperative tuning of multi-agent optimal control systems, where a network of agents (i.e. multiple coupled optimal control systems) adjusts parameters in their dynamics, objective functions, or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Zehui Lu , Wanxin Jin , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian D. O. Anderson

In this paper, we study the emergence of circular formation for agents in cyclic pursuit. Each agent is a unicycle traveling at a fixed common forward speed. We first establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Zhaozhan Yao , Yuhua Yao , Xiaoming Hu

This paper addresses the finite-time non-overshooting leader-following consensus problem for multi-agent systems, whose agents are modeled by a dynamical system topologically equivalent to the integrator chain. Based on the weighted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Min Li , Andrey Polyakov , Siyuan Wang , Gang Zheng

The problem of time-constrained multi-agent task scheduling and control synthesis is addressed. We assume the existence of a high level plan which consists of a sequence of cooperative tasks, each of which is associated with a deadline and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The application of artificial intelligence to simulate air-to-air combat scenarios is attracting increasing attention. To date the high-dimensional state and action spaces, the high complexity of situation information (such as imperfect and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Ardian Selmonaj , Oleg Szehr , Giacomo Del Rio , Alessandro Antonucci , Adrian Schneider , Michael Rüegsegger

This work presents a Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning framework for analyzing simulated air combat scenarios involving heterogeneous agents. The objective is to identify effective Courses of Action that lead to mission…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ardian Selmonaj , Oleg Szehr , Giacomo Del Rio , Alessandro Antonucci , Adrian Schneider , Michael Rüegsegger