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This paper addresses the design of an optimization-based cooperative path-following control law for multiple robotic vehicles that optimally balances the transient trade-off between coordination and path-following errors. To this end, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Andrea Alessandretti , A. Pedro Aguiar

We propose two distributed dynamic triggering laws to solve the consensus problem for multi-agent systems with event-triggered control. Compared with existing triggering laws, the proposed triggering laws involve internal dynamic variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Kun Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Karl H. Johansson

The problem of controlling multi-agent systems under different models of information sharing among agents has received significant attention in the recent literature. In this paper, we consider a setup where rather than committing to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Sagar Sudhakara , Dhruva Kartik , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) aims to enable agents to cooperate with independently trained partners without prior interaction, a key requirement for real-world multi-agent systems and human-AI collaboration. Existing approaches have largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mingu Kang , Sunwoo Lee , Yonghyeon Jo , Seungyul Han

We propose a distributed model predictive control (MPC) framework for coordinating heterogeneous, nonlinear multi-agent systems under individual and coupling constraints. The cooperative task is encoded as a shared objective function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Matthias Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

We consider the distributed leader-follower consensus problem with event-triggered communications. The system under consideration is a non-linear input-affine multi agent system. The agents are assumed to have identical dynamics structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Mathieu Marchand , Vincent Andrieu , Sylvain Bertrand , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Takumi Namba

The distributed coordination problem of multi-agent systems is addressed in this paper under the assumption of intermittent communication between agents in the presence of time-varying communication delays. Specifically, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

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 proposes a novel distributed coverage controller for a multi-agent system with constant-speed unicycle robots (CSUR). The work is motivated by the limitation of the conventional method that does not ensure the satisfaction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Qingchen Liu , Zengjie Zhang , Nhan Khanh Le , Jiahu Qin , Fangzhou Liu , Sandra Hirche

In real-world cooperative manipulation of objects, multiple mobile manipulator systems may suffer from disturbances and asynchrony, leading to excessive interaction wrenches and potentially causing object damage or emergency stops. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Wenhang Liu , Meng Ren , Kun Song , Gaoming Chen , Michael Yu Wang , Zhenhua Xiong

Ensuring resilient consensus in multi-robot systems with misbehaving agents remains a challenge, as many existing network resilience properties are inherently combinatorial and globally defined. While previous works have proposed control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haejoon Lee , Dimitra Panagou

This paper studies how to design a platform to optimally control constrained multi-agent systems with a single coordinator and multiple strategic agents. In our setting, the agents cannot apply control inputs and only the coordinator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Pedro Hespanhol , Anil Aswani

Passivity-based control (PBC) for port-Hamiltonian systems provides an intuitive way of achieving stabilization by rendering a system passive with respect to a desired storage function. However, in most instances the control law is obtained…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Olivier Sprangers , Gabriel A. D. Lopes , Robert Babuska

Current research on robust trajectory planning for autonomous agents aims to mitigate uncertainties arising from disturbances and modeling errors while ensuring guaranteed safety. Existing methods primarily utilize stochastic optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Christian Vitale , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tansel Yucelen , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper studies a consensus problem of multi-agent systems subjected to external disturbances over the clustered network. It considers that the agents are divided into several clusters. They are almost all the time isolated one from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Thiem V. Pham , Quynh T. T. Nguyen

Unlike the classical distributed consensus protocols enabling the group of agents as a whole to reach an agreement regarding a certain quantity of interest in a distributed fashion, the distributed biased min-consensus protocol (DBMC) has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Yuanqiu Mo , He Wang

This paper proposes a form of MPC in which the control variables are moved asynchronously. This contrasts with most MIMO control schemes, which assume that all variables are updated simultaneously. MPC outperforms other control strategies…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-17 K. V. Ling , J. M. Maciejowski , A. G. Richards , B-F. Wu

Multi-agent systems cooperation to achieve global goals is usually limited by sensing, actuation, and communication issues. At the local level, continuous measurement and actuation is only approximated by the use of digital mechanisms that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Eloy Garcia , Yongcan Cao , David W. Casbeer