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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

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 presents a nonlinear integrated guidance and control (IGC) approach for flexible leader-follower formation flight of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while accounting for high-fidelity aerodynamics and thrust dynamics.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Praveen Kumar Ranjan , Abhinav Sinha , Yongcan Cao

In this paper, both the fixed-time distributed consensus tracking and the fixed-time distributed average tracking problems for double-integrator-type multi-agent systems with bounded input disturbances are studied, respectively. Firstly, a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Qiang Chen , Yu Zhao , Guanghui Wen , Guoqing Shi , Xinghuo Yu

We study a decentralized version of Moving Agents in Formation (MAiF), a variant of Multi-Agent Path Finding aiming to plan collision-free paths for multiple agents with the dual objectives of reaching their goals quickly while maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qiushi Lin , Hang Ma

Problem of adaptive state observer synthesis for linear time-varying (LTV) system with unknown time-varying parameter and delayed output measurements is considered. State observation problem has attracted the attention of many researchers…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Alexey Bobtsov , Nikolay Nikolaev , Olga Slita , Olga Kozachek

Switching communication topologies can cause instability in vehicle platoons, as vehicle information may be lost during the dynamic switching process. This highlights the need to design a controller capable of maintaining the stability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Wenwei Que , Yang Li , Lu Wang , Wentao Liu , Yougang Bian , Manjiang Hu , Yongfu Li

In this paper, we investigate distributed multi-agent tracking of a convex set specified by multiple moving leaders with unmeasurable velocities. Various jointly-connected interaction topologies of the follower agents with uncertainties are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Yiguang Hong , K. H. Johansson

In this paper, a heterogeneous leader-followers multiagent system is studied under simultaneous time-varying communication faults and actuator faults. First, the state of the leader is modelled as the closed-loop reference model where the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Leyi Zheng , Yimin Zhou

This paper proposes an observer-based formation tracking control approach for multi-vehicle systems with second-order motion dynamics, assuming that vehicles' relative or global position and velocity measurements are unavailable. It is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Zhiqi Tang , Baris Fidan , Karl H. Johansson , Jonas Martensson , Tarek Hamel

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

In various applications in the field of control engineering the estimation of the state variables of dynamic systems in the presence of unknown inputs plays an important role. Existing methods require the so-called observer matching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Helmut Niederwieser , Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Markus Reichhartinger

This paper concerns the consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with linear or linearized dynamics. An observer-type protocol based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents is proposed. The consensus of such a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

The movement of cooperative robots in a densely cluttered environment may not be possible if the formation type is invariant. Hence, we investigate a new method for time-varying formation control for a group of heterogeneous autonomous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Vu Phi Tran , Matthew Garratt , Ian R. Petersen

This paper presents a model reference adaptive control (MRAC) framework for uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) systems subject to user-defined, time-varying state and input constraints. The proposed design seamlessly integrates a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Poulomee Ghosh , Shubhendu Bhasin

Adaptive cooperative tracking control with prescribed performance function (PPF) is proposed for high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The tracking error originally within a known large set is confined to a smaller predefined set using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Hashim A Hashim

Recent literature has shown how linear time-invariant (LTI) systems can be represented by trajectories features, that is relying on a single input-output (IO) data dictionary to span all possible system trajectories, as long as the input is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Marcelo Menezes Morato , Julio Elias Normey-Rico , Olivier Sename

Given a multi-agent linear system, we formalize and solve a trajectory optimization problem that encapsulates trajectory tracking, distance-based formation control and input energy minimization. To this end, a numerical projection operator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Marco Fabris , Angelo Cenedese , John Hauser

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

The creation of diverse and realistic driving scenarios has become essential to enhance perception and planning capabilities of the autonomous driving system. However, generating long-duration, surround-view consistent driving videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Rui Chen , Zehuan Wu , Yichen Liu , Yuxin Guo , Jingcheng Ni , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia