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In this paper, we study asynchronous consensus problems of continuous-time multi-agent systems with discontinuous information transmission. The proposed consensus control strategy is implemented only based on the state information at some…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xiao , Long Wang

A properly designed controller can help improve the quality of experimental measurements or force a dynamical system to follow a completely new time-evolution path. Recent developments in deep reinforcement learning have made steep advances…

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This paper addresses the problem of consensus tracking with fixed-time convergence, for leader-follower multi-agent systems with double-integrator dynamics, where only a subset of followers has access to the state of the leader. The control…

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This paper considers a formation shape control problem for point agents in a two-dimensional ambient space, where the control is distributed, is based on achieving desired distances between nominated agent pairs, and avoids the possibility…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Toshiharu Sugie , Brian D. O. Anderson , Zhiyong Sun , Huichao Dong

We study internal stability in the context of diffusively-coupled control architectures, common in multi-agent systems (i.e. the celebrated consensus protocol), for linear time-invariant agents. We derive a condition under which the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Gal Barkai , Leonid Mirkin , Daniel Zelazo

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem for a large population of interacting agents with deterministic dynamics, aggregating potential and constraints on reciprocal distances, in dimension 1. We study existence and qualitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

Generative agents have proven to be powerful assistants in a wide variety of contexts. Given this success, users are now deploying agents with minimal restrictions in open ended, multi-agent environments. Current methods for monitoring the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hayden Helm , Carey Priebe , Brandon Duderstadt

A graph theoretic framework recently has been proposed to stabilize interconnected multiagent systems in a distributed fashion, while systematically capturing the architectural aspect of cyber-physical systems with separate agent or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Vahid Rezaei

The control of nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics has been a significant field of research for many years. This paper presents a novel data-driven optimal adaptive control structure with less control effort and faster adaptation than…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Mohammad Mahmoudi , Nasser Sadati

In this paper we present a direct adaptive control method for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with a time-varying structure. We view the nonlinear systems as composed of a finite number of ``pieces,'' which are interpolated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Ordonez , K. M. Passino

This paper presents a novel control protocol for distance and orientation formation control of rigid bodies, whose sensing graph is a static and undirected tree, in the special Euclidean group SE(3). The proposed control laws are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Christos K. Verginis , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we present a novel 3D formation control scheme for directed graphs in a leader-follower configuration, achieving (almost) global convergence to the desired shape. Specifically, we introduce three controlled variables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Omid Mirzaeedodangeh , Farhad Mehdifar , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing controllers for temporal logic specifications under security constraint. We assume that there exists a passive intruder (eavesdropper) that can partially observe the behavior of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Yu Chen , Shuo Yang , Rahul Mangharam , Xiang Yin

We present a stabilizing output-feedback controller for nonlinear finite and infinite-dimensional control systems governed by monotone operators that respects given input constraints. In particular, we show under a detectability-like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Till Preuster , Hannes Gernandt , Manuel Schaller

In this paper we propose a data-driven distributionally robust Model Predictive Control framework for constrained stochastic systems with unbounded additive disturbances. Recursive feasibility is ensured by optimizing over an linearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Christoph Mark , Steven Liu

We propose a machine learning framework to synthesize reactive controllers for systems whose interactions with their adversarial environment are modeled by infinite-duration, two-player games over (potentially) infinite graphs. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Daniel Neider , Oliver Markgraf

Robust time-varying formation design problems for second-order multi-agent systems subjected to external disturbances are investigated. Firstly, by constructing an extended state observer, the disturbance compensation is estimated, which is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Le Wang , Jianxiang Xi , Ming He , Guangbin Liu

When multiple model predictive controllers are implemented on a shared control area network (CAN), their performance may degrade due to the inhomogeneous timing and delays among messages. The priority based real-time scheduling of messages…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Zhenwu Shi , Fumin Zhang

This paper is concerned with a formation shaping problem for point agents in a two-dimensional space, where control avoids the possibility of reflection ambiguities. One solution for this type of problems was given first for three or four…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Toshiharu Sugie , Fei Tong , Brian D. O. Anderson , Zhiyong Sun

In this paper, a class of convex feasibility problems (CFPs) are studied for multi-agent systems through local interactions. The objective is to search a feasible solution to the convex inequalities with some set constraints in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang