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This paper studies distributed resilient consensus problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems susceptible to deception attacks. The attacks invade both sensor and actuator channels of each agent. A specific class of…

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This paper investigates the problem of resilient global practical fixed-time cooperative output regulation of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to denial-of-service attacks. A novel distributed resilient adaptive fixed-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Wenji Cao , Lu Liu , Zehua Ye , Dan Zhang , Gang Feng

In this paper, we present a learning-based tracking controller based on Gaussian processes (GP) for collision avoidance of multi-agent systems where the agents evolve in the special Euclidean group in the space SE(3). In particular, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Omayra Yago Nieto , Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Juan I. Giribet , Leonardo J. Colombo

This paper addresses the fundamental problem of non-uniform area coverage in multi-agent systems, where different regions require varying levels of attention due to mission-dependent priorities. Existing uniform coverage strategies are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Sungjun Seo , Kooktae Lee

Decentralized stochastic control problems with local information involve problems where multiple agents and subsystems which are coupled via dynamics and/or cost are present. Typically, however, the dynamics of such couplings is complex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Zachary Selk , Serdar Yüksel

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized control method to maintain Line-of-Sight connectivity for multi-robot networks in the presence of Guassian-distributed localization uncertainty. In contrast to most existing work that assumes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yupeng Yang , Yiwei Lyu , Yanze Zhang , Sha Yi , Wenhao Luo

This paper presents a robust distributed coordination protocol that achieves generation of collision-free trajectories for multiple unicycle agents in the presence of stochastic uncertainties. We build upon our earlier work on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dongkun Han , Dimitra Panagou

This paper presents a novel Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme for underwater robotic vehicles operating in a constrained workspace including static obstacles. The purpose of the controller is to guide the vehicle towards…

This article proposes a novel control architecture using a centralized nonlinear model predictive control (CNMPC) scheme for controlling multiple micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The control architecture uses an augmented state system to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Björn Lindqvist , Sina Sharif Mansouri , Pantelis Sopasakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Existing decentralized methods for multi-agent motion planning lack formal, infinite-horizon safety guarantees, especially for communication-constrained systems. We present R3R which, to our knowledge, is the first decentralized and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Thomas Marshall Vielmetti , Devansh R. Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

Fully decentralized, multiagent trajectory planners enable complex tasks like search and rescue or package delivery by ensuring safe navigation in unknown environments. However, deconflicting trajectories with other agents and ensuring…

We propose a distributed control algorithm for a multi-agent network whose agents deploy over a cluttered region in accordance with a time-varying coverage density function while avoiding collisions with all obstacles they encounter. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Alaa Z. Abdulghafoor , Efstathios Bakolas

In this work, we propose a novel safe and scalable decentralized solution for multi-agent control in the presence of stochastic disturbances. Safety is mathematically encoded using stochastic control barrier functions and safe controls are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Marcus A. Pereira , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Oswin So , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative formation control for multi-agent systems with limited resources. We consider a team of robots tasked with achieving a desired formation from an arbitrary initial configuration. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Evangelos Psomiadis , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper considers the containment control problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and multiple leaders whose control inputs are possibly nonzero and time varying. Based on the relative states of neighboring agents, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Wei Ren , Gang Feng

In this paper, we present a decentralized and communication-free collision avoidance approach for multi-robot systems that accounts for both robot localization and sensing uncertainties. The approach relies on the computation of an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Hai Zhu , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora

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

This paper introduces an approach to address the target enclosing problem using non-holonomic multiagent systems, where agents self-organize on the enclosing shape around a fixed target. In our approach, agents independently move toward the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Praveen Kumar Ranjan , Abhinav Sinha , Yongcan Cao