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We study dynamical transportation networks in a framework that includes extensions of the classical Cell Transmission Model to arbitrary network topologies. The dynamics are modeled as systems of ordinary differential equations describing…

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This paper evaluates the performance of multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in which the base station is equipped with a dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA). Due to the physical implementation of DMAs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , Robin Jess Williams , Jide Yuan , Elisabeth de Carvalho

Many multi-agent systems in practice are decentralized and have dynamically varying dependencies. There has been a lack of attempts in the literature to analyze these systems theoretically. In this paper, we propose and theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Alex DeWeese , Guannan Qu

This paper introduces a new approach that leverages Multi-agent Bayesian Optimization (MABO) to design Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) schemes for multi-agent systems. The primary objective is to learn optimal DMPC schemes even…

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In this paper, we study output synchronization for multi-agent systems. The objective is to design a protocol which only depends on the agent dynamics and does not require any knowledge of the network. If the network has a directed spanning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Anton A. Stoorvogel , Ali Saberi , Zhenwei Liu , Qiaofeng Wen

The application of distributed model predictive controllers (DMPC) for multi-agent systems (MASs) necessitates communication between agents, yet the consequence of communication data rates is typically overlooked. This work focuses on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Yujia Yang , Ye Wang , Chris Manzie , Ye Pu

A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We propose a framework for suboptimal model predictive control (MPC) based on the interconnection of monotone dynamical systems, such as port-Hamiltonian systems. In contrast to classical MPC formulations, where the optimizer is treated as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Till Preuster , Hannes Gernandt , Manuel Schaller

A Multi-Agent System is a distributed system where the agents or nodes perform complex functions that cannot be written down in analytic form. Multi-Agent Systems are highly connected, and the information they contain is mostly stored in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Philippe De Wilde , Gerard Briscoe

This paper studies a class of distributed online convex optimization problems for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Agents in a network, knowing only their own outputs, need to minimize the time-varying costs through neighboring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Li Li , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we propose a new framework for synchronization of heterogeneous multi agent system which we refer to as weak synchronization. This new framework of synchronization is based on achieving the network stability in the absence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Anton A. Stoorvogel , Ali Saberi , Zhenwei Liu

Within the area of multi-agent systems, normative systems are a widely used framework for the coordination of interdependent activities. A crucial problem associated with normative systems is that of synthesising norms that effectively…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Javier Morales , Michael Wooldridge , Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar , Maite López-Sánchez

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.…

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There are many industrial, commercial and social applications for multi-agent planning for multirotors such as autonomous agriculture, infrastructure inspection and search and rescue. Thus, improving on the state-of-the-art of multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Charbel Toumieh

Multiplex networks are networks composed of multiple layers such that the number of nodes in all layers is the same and the adjacency matrices between the layers are diagonal. We consider the special class of multiplex networks where the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-25 Rico Berner , Volker Mehrmann , Eckehard Schöll , Serhiy Yanchuk

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper studies the dynamics of a network of diffusively-coupled bistable systems. Under mild conditions and without requiring smoothness of the vector field, we analyze the network dynamics and show that the solutions converge globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Gianluca Villani , Luca Scardovi

While globally optimal solutions to many convex programs can be computed efficiently in polynomial time, this is, in general, not possible for nonconvex optimization problems. Therefore, locally optimal approaches or other efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Bho Matthiesen , Christoph Hellings , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Wolfgang Utschick

This paper proposes a distributed controller synthesis framework for safe navigation of multi-agent systems. We leverage control barrier functions to formulate collision avoidance with obstacles and teammates as constraints on the control…

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