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Existing data collection methods for traffic operations and control usually rely on infrastructure-based loop detectors or probe vehicle trajectories. Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) not only can report data about themselves but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Hanlin Chen , Brian Liu , Xumiao Zhang , Feng Qian , Z. Morley Mao , Yiheng Feng

In horizontal collaborations, carriers form coalitions in order to perform parts of their logistics operations jointly. By exchanging transportation requests among each other, they can operate more efficiently and in a more sustainable way.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Margaretha Gansterer , Richard F. Hartl

In this paper, we develop a profit-sharing-based optimal routing mechanism to incentivize horizontal collaboration among urban goods distributors. This paper investigates a collaborative routing problem for urban logistics, in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Fangting Zhou , Ala Arvidsson , Jiaming Wu , Balazs Kulcsar

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for the distributed on-line source seeking, termed as 'DoSS', with a multi-robot system in an unknown dynamical environment. Our algorithm, building on a novel concept called dummy confidence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Bin Du , Kun Qian , Christian Claudel , Dengfeng Sun

This paper proposes a lightweight systematic solution for multi-robot coordinated navigation with decentralized cooperative perception. An information flow is first created to facilitate real-time observation sharing over unreliable ad-hoc…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chenxi Li , Weining Lu , Qingquan Lin , Litong Meng , Haolu Li , Bin Liang

Cooperative electric vehicle (EV) charging control has emerged as a key component in grid-edge resource (GER) management. However, customers' privacy remains a major barrier to large-scale implementation of EV charging control. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xiang Huo , Mingxi Liu

In this paper, we develop a socially cooperative optimal control framework to address the motion planning problem for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in mixed traffic using social value orientation (SVO) and a potential game…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) introduces major challenges for decentralized charging control. Existing decentralized approaches efficiently coordinate a large number of EVs to select charging stations while reducing energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chuhao Qin , Alexandru Sorici , Andrei Olaru , Evangelos Pournaras , Adina Magda Florea

This paper investigates the issue of cooperative activity detection for grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks with sourced and unsourced paradigms. First, we propose a cooperative framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Decentralized strategies are of interest for local decision-making over multi-vehicle networks. This paper studies mixed traffic networks of human-driven and autonomous vehicles with partial sensor measurements. The idea is to enable the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

This paper considers a radio-frequency (RF)-based simultaneous localization and source-seeking (SLASS) problem in multi-robot systems, where multiple robots jointly localize themselves and an RF source using distance-only measurements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ke Xu , Rui Zhang , He Chen

This paper investigates the cooperative control of multiple unmanned and manned vehicles via an output containment control approach for heterogeneous discrete-time multiagent systems. The unmanned vehicles act as leading vehicles to guide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Wang Shimin , Jiang Simin , Zhan Zhi , Wu Yuanqing , William H. K. Lam , Zhong Renxin

In this paper, we propose a distributed solution to the navigation of a population of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to best localize a static source. The network is considered heterogeneous with UAVs equipped with received signal strength…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Cooperative perception aims to address the inherent limitations of single-vehicle autonomous driving systems through information exchange among multiple agents. Previous research has primarily focused on single-frame perception tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jiaru Zhong , Jiahao Wang , Jiahui Xu , Xiaofan Li , Zaiqing Nie , Haibao Yu

This paper proposes a distributed optimization-based algorithm for electric vehicle (EV) charging and discharging, incorporating EV customer economics and distribution network constraints enforced on an unbalanced distribution grid.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Nanduni Nimalsiri , Elizabeth Ratnam

We introduce the Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding (Co-MAPF) problem, an extension to the classical MAPF problem, where cooperative behavior is incorporated. In this setting, a group of autonomous agents operate in a shared environment…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nir Greshler , Ofir Gordon , Oren Salzman , Nahum Shimkin

Cooperative perception plays a vital role in extending a vehicle's sensing range beyond its line-of-sight. However, exchanging raw sensory data under limited communication resources is infeasible. Towards enabling an efficient cooperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz , Cristina Perfecto , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

Situational awareness as a necessity in the connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) domain is the subject of a significant number of researches in recent years. The driver's safety is directly dependent on the robustness, reliability, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ehsan Emad Marvasti , Arash Raftari , Amir Emad Marvasti , Yaser P. Fallah

We propose an algorithm for distributed charging control of electric vehicles (EVs) using online learning and online convex optimization. Many distributed charging control algorithms in the literature implicitly assume fast two-way…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Wann-Jiun Ma , Vijay Gupta , Ufuk Topcu

Advances in autonomy offer the potential for dramatic positive outcomes in a number of domains, yet enabling their safe deployment remains an open problem. This work's motivating question is: In safety-critical settings, can we avoid the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Cameron Hickert , Sirui Li , Cathy Wu