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In this paper, we explore a multi-agent reinforcement learning approach to address the design problem of communication and control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Typical end-to-end deep neural network policies may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Takamitsu Matsubara

This paper is concerned with the design of a distributed cooperative synchronization controller for a class of higher-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The objective is to achieve synchronization and satisfy a predefined time-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

This paper concerns the consensus and formation of a network of mobile autonomous agents in adversarial settings where a group of malicious (compromised) agents are subject to deception attacks. In addition, the communication network is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

This note studies resilient coordination of networked multiagent systems in the presence of misbehaving agents, i.e., agents that are subject to adversaries modeled as exogenous disturbances. Apart from the existing relevant literature that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Tansel Yucelen , Gerardo De La Torre

As learning-based robotic controllers are typically trained offline and deployed with fixed parameters, their ability to cope with unforeseen changes during operation is limited. Biologically inspired, this work presents a framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Fabian Domberg , Georg Schildbach

Distributed control increases system scalability, flexibility, and redundancy. Foundational to such decentralisation is consensus formation, by which decision-making and coordination are achieved. However, decentralised multi-agent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Agathe Bouis , Christopher Lowe , Ruaridh A. Clark , Malcolm Macdonald

This paper introduces a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning framework enabling structurally heterogeneous teams of agents to jointly discover and acquire randomly located targets in environments characterized by partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

The networked nature of multi-robot systems presents challenges in the context of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Centralized control policies do not scale with increasing numbers of robots, whereas independent control policies do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

We consider control strategies for large-scale interacting agent systems under uncertainty. The particular focus is on the design of robust controls that allow to bound the variance of the controlled system over time. To this end we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Giacomo Albi , Michael Herty , Chiara Segala

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

Distributed optimal control is known to be challenging and can become intractable even for linear-quadratic regulator problems. In this work, we study a special class of such problems where distributed state feedback controllers can give…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Johan Olsson , Runyu Zhang , Emma Tegling , Na Li

This paper addresses the problem of distributed resilient state estimation and control for linear time-invariant systems in the presence of malicious false data injection sensor attacks and bounded noise. We consider a system operator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Takumi Shinohara , Karl H. Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

This paper presents an adversary detection mechanism and a resilient control framework for multi-agent systems under spatiotemporal constraints. Safety in multi-agent systems is typically addressed under the assumption that all agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Aquib Mustafa , Dimitra Panagou

This work presents a distributed algorithm for resolving cooperative multi-vehicle conflicts in highly constrained spaces. By formulating the conflict resolution problem as a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem, we can train a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xu Shen , Francesco Borrelli

We propose a robust adaptive online synchronization method for leader-follower networks of nonlinear heterogeneous agents with system uncertainties and input magnitude saturation. Synchronization is achieved using a Distributed input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Miguel F. Arevalo-Castiblanco , Eduardo Mojica-Nava and , César A. Uribe

In this work, an $H_{\infty}$ performance fault recovery control problem for a team of multi-agent systems that is subject to actuator faults is studied. Our main objective is to design a distributed control reconfiguration strategy such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Zahra Gallehdari , Nader Meskin , Khashayar Khorasani

In this paper, we consider the resilient multi-dimensional consensus and distributed optimization problems of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of both agent-based and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The considered agent-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Hongjian Chen , Changyun Wen , Xiaolei Li

This paper investigates the leader-following consensus problem for a class of multi-agent systems subject to adversarial attack-like external inputs. To address this, we formulate the robust leader-following control problem as a global…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yunxiao Ren , Dingguo Liang , Yuezu Lv , Zhisheng Duan

We examine the problem of transmission control, i.e., when to transmit, in distributed wireless communications networks through the lens of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Most other works using reinforcement learning to control or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Collin Farquhar , Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar , Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath

In this paper, a multi-agent coordination problem with steady-state regulation constraints is investigated for a class of nonlinear systems. Unlike existing leader-following coordination formulations, the reference signal is not given by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi