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This paper presents an experimental validation of decentralized affine transformation (AT) in multi-agent systems using teams of mini-quadcopters. The AT framework enables an agent team to safely navigate constrained, obstacle-rich…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Garegin Mazmanyan , Hossein Rastgoftar

In this paper, we present a distributed optimal multiagent control scheme for quadrotor formation tracking under localization errors. Our control architecture is based on a leader-follower approach, where a single leader quadrotor tracks a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Clinton Enwerem , John Baras , Danilo Romero

This paper proposes a novel planning framework to handle a multi-agent pathfinding problem under team-connected communication constraint, where all agents must have a connected communication channel to the rest of the team during their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hoang-Dung Bui , Erion Plaku , Gregoy J. Stein

In this work, it is presented the development of a novel distributed algorithm performing robotic coverage, clustering and dispatch around an event in static-obstacle structured environments without relying on metric information.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Marco Fabris , Angelo Cenedese

The focus of this paper is directed towards optimal control of multi-agent systems consisting of one leader and a number of followers in the presence of noise. The dynamics of every agent is assumed to be linear, and the performance index…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Jalal Arabneydi , Mohammad M. Baharloo , Amir G. Aghdam

This paper presents a safe delay-adaptive control for a strict-feedback nonlinear ODE with a delayed actuator, whose dynamic is also a strict-feedback nonlinear ODE and the delay length is unknown. By formulating the delay as a transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Zhenxu Zhao , Ji Wang

This paper concerns the consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with linear or linearized dynamics. An observer-type protocol based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents is proposed. The consensus of such a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

We discuss the problem of decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in this work. In our setting, the global state, action, and reward are assumed to be fully observable, while the local policy is protected as privacy by each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Kuo Li , Qing-Shan Jia

This work presents a physics-conditioned latent diffusion model tailored for dynamical downscaling of atmospheric data, with a focus on reconstructing high-resolution 2-m temperature fields. Building upon a pre-existing diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Paul Rosu , Muchang Bahng , Erick Jiang , Rico Zhu , Vahid Tarokh

This paper addresses the motion planning problem for a team of aerial agents under high level goals. We propose a hybrid control strategy that guarantees the accomplishment of each agent's local goal specification, which is given as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Christos K. Verginis , Ziwei Xu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper considers the leader-follower control problem for a linear multi-agent system with directed communication topology and linear nonidentical uncertain coupling subject to integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). A consensus-type…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii , Guanghui Wen

This paper proposes MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy, a control policy for active multi-target tracking using a mobile agent. The policy enables multiple behavior modes for the agent, including exploration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Saida Liu , Nikolay Atanasov , Shumon Koga

This paper proposes continuum deformation as a strategy for controlling the collective motion of a multiple quadcopter system (MQS) carrying a common payload. Continuum deformation allows expansion and contraction of inter-agent distances…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella M. Atkins

We consider the following problem - a group of mobile agents perform some task on a terrain modeled as a graph. In a given moment of time an adversary gets an access to the graph and positions of the agents. Shortly before adversary's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Karol Gotfryd , Marek Klonowski , Dominik Pająk

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse

This paper proposes a decentralized approach for solving the problem of moving a swarm of agents into a desired formation. We propose a decentralized assignment algorithm which prescribes goals to each agent using only local information.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Logan Beaver , Andreas Malikopoulos

In this paper, we describe an approach to achieve dynamic legged locomotion on physical robots which combines existing methods for control with reinforcement learning. Specifically, our goal is a control hierarchy in which highest-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Kevin Green , Yesh Godse , Jeremy Dao , Ross L. Hatton , Alan Fern , Jonathan Hurst

We consider the problem of controlling the group behavior of a large number of dynamic systems that are constantly interacting with each other. These systems are assumed to have identical dynamics (e.g., birds flock, robot swarm) and their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Yongxin Chen

In this paper, we propose a distance-based formation control strategy that can enable four mobile agents, which are modelled by a group of single-integrators, to achieve the desired formation shape specified by using six consistent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Myoung-Chul Park , Zhiyong Sun , Minh Hoang Trinh , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron