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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

We study the formation control problem for a group of mobile agents in a plane, in which each agent is modeled as a kinematic point and can only use the local measurements in its local frame. The agents are required to maintain a geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Chen Wang , Shuai Li , Weiguo Xia , Jinan Sun , Guangming Xie

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

This paper addresses the problem of distributed coordination control for multi-robot systems (MRSs) in the presence of localization uncertainty using a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) approach. We introduce a stochastic LQG control strategy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Sakineh Khodadadi

Non-uniform scaling control of formation enables multi-agent systems to adjust their shape by scaling with different ratios along different coordinate axes, offering enhanced flexibility in complex environments. However, like most existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Tao He , Gangshan Jing

We present two distributed methods for the estimation of the kinematic parameters, the dynamic parameters, and the kinematic state of an unknown planar body manipulated by a decentralized multi-agent system. The proposed approaches rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Antonio Franchi , Antonio Petitti , Alessandro Rizzo

Many reality tasks such as robot coordination can be naturally modelled as multi-agent cooperative system where the rewards are sparse. This paper focuses on learning decentralized policies for such tasks using sub-optimal demonstration. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Peixi Peng , Junliang Xing

In this paper, we present a decentralized sensor-level collision avoidance policy for multi-robot systems, which shows promising results in practical applications. In particular, our policy directly maps raw sensor measurements to an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Tingxiang Fan , Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

Using multiple mobile robots in search missions offers a lot of benefits, but one needs a suitable and competent motion control algorithm which is able to consider sensors characteristics, the uncertainty of target detection and complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Stefan Ivić

Safe navigation in dense, urban driving environments remains an open problem and an active area of research. Unlike typical predict-then-plan approaches, game-theoretic planning considers how one vehicle's plan will affect the actions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Arec Jamgochian , Kunal Menda , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This paper studies a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control with regime-switching. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of a Markov-modulated It\^o-diffusion via a two-sided singular stochastic control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari , Ioannis Tzouanas

This paper extends off-policy reinforcement learning to the multi-agent case in which a set of networked agents communicating with their neighbors according to a time-varying graph collaboratively evaluates and improves a target policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Wesley Suttle , Zhuoran Yang , Kaiqing Zhang , Zhaoran Wang , Tamer Basar , Ji Liu

In this article, we present a feedback control method for tactile coverage tasks, such as cleaning or surface inspection. These tasks are challenging to plan due to complex continuous physical interactions. In these tasks, the coverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Cem Bilaloglu , Tobias Löw , Sylvain Calinon

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Decentralized control of mobile robotic sensor networks is a fundamental problem in robotics that has attracted intensive research in recent decades. Most of the existing works dealt with two-dimensional spaces. This report is concerned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Vali Nazarzehi

In networked multi-agent reinforcement learning (Networked-MARL), decentralized agents must act under local observability and constrained communication over fixed physical graphs. Existing methods often assume static neighborhoods, limiting…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wei Duan , Jie Lu , Junyu Xuan

The implementation feasibility of control algorithms over very large-scale networks calls for hard constraints regarding communication, computational, and memory requirements. In this paper, the decentralized receding horizon control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Leonardo Pedroso , Pedro Batista

This project proposes a bioinspired multi-robot system using Distributed Optimization for efficient exploration and mapping of unknown environments. Each robot explores its environment and creates a map, which is afterwards put together to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Roman Ibrahimov , Jannik Matthias Heinen

Motivated by applications in natural resource management, risk management, and finance, this paper is focused on an ergodic two-sided singular control problem for a general one-dimensional diffusion process. The control is given by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Khwanchai Kunwai , Fubao Xi , George Yin , Chao Zhu

Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing, multi-robot coordination and information gathering scenarios…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Claudia V. Goldman , Shlomo Zilberstein