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Humans show specialized strategies for efficient collaboration. Transferring similar strategies to humanoid robots can improve their capability to interact with other agents, leading the way to complex collaborative scenarios with multiple…

In this report, we try to improve the performance of existing approaches for search operations in multi-robot context. We propose three novel algorithms that are using a triangular grid pattern, i.e., robots certainly go through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Ahmad Baranzadeh

In [22] a form of extremum seeking for control (ESC) was developed for the stabilization of uncertain nonlinear systems. In ESC the extremum seeker itself controls the systems through feedback rather than fine tuning a controller. The ESC…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Alexander Scheinker , David Scheinker

The paper proposes a reliable and robust planning solution to the long range robotic navigation problem in extremely cluttered environments. A two-layer planning architecture is proposed that leverages both the environment map and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Shakeeb Ahmad , Andrew B. Mills , Eugene R. Rush , Eric W. Frew , J. Sean Humbert

This paper focuses on securing a triangular shape (up to translation) for a team of three mobile robots that uses heterogeneous sensing mechanism. Based on the available local information, each robot employs the popular gradient-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Nelson P. K. Chan , Bayu Jayawardhana , Hector Garcia de Marina

Extremum seeking feedback is a powerful method to steer a dynamical system to an extremum of a partially or completely unknown map. It often requires advanced system-theoretic tools to understand the qualitative behavior of extremum seeking…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Hans-Bernd Dürr , Miloš S. Stanković , Christian Ebenbauer , Karl H. Johansson

This paper deals with the gradient extremum seeking control for static scalar maps with actuators governed by distributed diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs). To achieve the real-time optimization objective, we design a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Pedro Henrique Silva Coutinho , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic

In this paper, we present a machine learning approach to move a group of robots in a formation. We model the problem as a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem. Our aim is to design a control policy for maintaining a desired formation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Abhay Rawat , Kamalakar Karlapalem

This research considers the task of evolving the physical structure of a robot to enhance its performance in various environments, which is a significant problem in the field of Evolutionary Robotics. Inspired by the fields of evolutionary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jack Collins , Wade Geles , David Howard , Frederic Maire

The gathering over meeting nodes problem requires the robots to gather at one of the pre-defined meeting nodes. This paper investigates the problem with respect to the objective function that minimizes the total number of moves made by all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Subhash Bhagat , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

Mutual localization provides a consensus of reference frame as an essential basis for cooperation in multirobot systems. Previous works have developed certifiable and robust solvers for relative transformation estimation between each pair…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yingjian Wang , Xiangyong Wen , Yanjun Cao , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

This paper addresses the problem of bearing leader-follower formation control in three-dimensional space by exploring the persistence of excitation (PE) of the desired formation. Using only bearing and relative velocity measurements,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Zhiqi Tang , Rita Cunha , Tarek Hamel , Carlos Silvestre

In this paper, we develop an extremum seeking control method integrated with iterative learning control to track a time-varying optimizer within finite time. The behavior of the extremum seeking system is analyzed via an approximating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Zhixing Cao , Hans-Bernd Dürr , Christian Ebenbauer , Frank Allgöwer , Furong Gao

As robots move from the laboratory into the real world, motion planning will need to account for model uncertainty and risk. For robot motions involving intermittent contact, planning for uncertainty in contact is especially important, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Luke Drnach , John Z. Zhang , Ye Zhao

This paper addresses the design and analysis of an extremum-seeking (ES) controller for scalar static maps in the context of infinite-dimensional dynamics governed by complex-valued partial differential equations (PDEs) of Schrodinger type.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Paulo Henrique Foganholo Biazetto , Gustavo Artur de Andrade , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic

Multi-robot cooperative control has gained extensive research interest due to its wide applications in civil, security, and military domains. This paper proposes a cooperative control algorithm for multi-robot systems with general linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Yi Dong , Zhongguo Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zhengtao Ding , Xiaowei Huang

To enable safe and efficient human-robot collaboration in shared workspaces it is important for the robot to predict how a human will move when performing a task. While predicting human motion for tasks not known a priori is very…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Jim Mainprice , Rafi Hayne , Dmitry Berenson

This paper studies the problem of multi-robot pursuit of how to coordinate a group of defending robots to capture a faster attacker before it enters a protected area. Such operation for defending robots is challenging due to the unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jinyong Chen , Rui Zhou , Zhaozong Wang , Yunjie Zhang , Guibin Sun

We present a control framework that enables humanoid robots to perform collaborative transportation tasks with a human partner. The framework supports both translational and rotational motions, which are fundamental to co-transport…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shubham S. Kumbhar , Abhijeet M. Kulkarni , Panagiotis Artemiadis

We propose a new design strategy for extremum seeking control for a multi-dimensional single-integrator system in the presence of local extrema. The proposed method employs suitably designed sinusoidal dither signals, which force the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Raik Suttner , Christian Ebenbauer , Sergey Dashkovskiy