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A distributed implementation of a Robust Integral of the Sign of the Error (RISE) controller is developed for multi-agent target tracking problems with exponential convergence guarantees. Previous RISE-based approaches for multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Cristian F. Nino , Omkar Sudhir Patil , Sage C. Edwards , Warren E. Dixon

Finite-time motion planning with collision avoidance is a challenging issue in multi-agent systems. This paper proposes a novel distributed controller based on a new Lyapunov barrier function which guarantees finite-time stability for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yilei Jiang , Dongkun Han

Active-passive multiagent systems consist of agents subject to inputs (active agents) and agents with no inputs (passive agents), where active and passive agent roles are considered to be interchangeable in order to capture a wide array of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Ehsan Arabi , Dimitra Panagou , Tansel Yucelen

Distributed optimization problems have received much attention due to their privacy preservation, parallel computation, less communication, and strong robustness. This paper presents and studies the time-varying distributed optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Wan-ying Li , Nan-jing Huang

This article investigates the consensus tracking problem of multi-agent systems under jointly connected topology through automated synthesis of Lyapunov functions. Based on the proposed distributed nonlinear control protocol, several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Shuyuan Zhang , Lei Wang , Qing-Guo Wang

In this study, we propose a design methodology of distributed controllers for multi-agent systems on a class of directed interaction networks by extending the gradient-flow method. Although the gradient-flow method is a common design tool…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yuto Watanabe , Kazunori Sakurama , Hyo-Sung Ahn

In this paper, we consider the consensus problem of switched multi-agent system composed of continuous-time and discrete-time subsystems. By combining the classical consensus protocols of continuous-time and discrete-time multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yuanshi Zheng , Jingying Ma , Long Wang

Here, we study the ultimately bounded stability of network of mismatched systems using Lyapunov direct method. We derive an upper bound on the norm of the error of network states from its average states, which it achieves in finite time.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Saeed Manaffam , Alireza Seyedi , Azadeh Vosoughi , Tara Javidi

This paper fully studies distributed optimal consensus problem in non-directed dynamical networks. We consider a group of networked agents that are supposed to rendezvous at the optimal point of a collective convex objective function. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Amir Adibzadeh , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaja , Mohsen Zamani

Learned models and policies can generalize effectively when evaluated within the distribution of the training data, but can produce unpredictable and erroneous outputs on out-of-distribution inputs. In order to avoid distribution shift when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Katie Kang , Paula Gradu , Jason Choi , Michael Janner , Claire Tomlin , Sergey Levine

We study distributed differentiation, where agents in a networked system estimate the average of local time-varying signals and their derivatives under mild assumptions on the agents' signals and their first and second derivatives. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Irene Perez Salesa , David Gomez Gutierrez , Rosario Aragues , Carlos Sagues

This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and directed communication graphs. Existing works usually design consensus protocols using the smallest real part of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Zhongkui Li , Guanghui Wen , Zhisheng Duan , Wei Ren

This paper addresses the problem of composite synchronization and learning control in a network of multi-agent robotic manipulator systems with heterogeneous nonlinear uncertainties under a leader-follower framework. A novel two-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Emadodin Jandaghi , Dalton L. Stein , Adam Hoburg , Paolo Stegagno , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

This paper proposes a distributed model predicted control (DMPC) approach for consensus control of multi-agent systems (MASs) with linear agent dynamics and bounded control input constraints. Within the proposed DMPC framework, each agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Yougang Bian , Changkun Du , Manjiang Hu , Haikuo Liu

In this note, the problem of simultaneous leader-following consensus and parameter estimation is studied for a class of multi-agent systems subject to an uncertain leader system. The leader system is described by a sum of sinusoids with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Shimin Wang , Xiangyu Meng

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

This paper presents a distributed Lyapunov-based control framework for achieving both complete and phase synchronization in a class of leader-follower multi-agent systems composed of identical chaotic agents. The proposed approach…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Marzieh Basiri Abarghoei , Mohammad Reza Ahmadi Zand

This paper presents a trust-based predictive multi-agent consensus protocol that analyses neighbours' anticipation data and makes coordination decisions. Agents in the network share their future predicted data over a finite look-ahead…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Venkatraman Renganathan , Sabyasachi Mondal , Antonios Tsourdos

This paper investigates the distributed model predictive control for an asynchronous nonlinear multi-agent system with external interference via a self-triggered generator and a prediction horizon regulator. First, a shrinking constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Qianqian Chen , Shaoyuan Li

This paper considers the distributed robust suboptimal consensus control problem of linear multi-agent systems, with both H2 and H_infty performance requirements. A novel two-step complementary design approach is proposed. In the first…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Zhongkui Li , Junjie Jiao , Xiang Chen