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Consensus control in multi-agent systems has received significant attention and practical implementation across various domains. However, managing consensus control under unknown dynamics remains a significant challenge for control design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Xiaobing Dai , Zewen Yang , Mengtian Xu , Fangzhou Liu , Georges Hattab , Sandra Hirche

In this note, a novel observer-based output feedback control approach is proposed to address the distributed optimal output consensus problem of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in the normal form over unbalanced directed graphs. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Xinghu Wang , Haibo Ji

Uncertainty-aware prediction is essential for safe motion planning, especially when using learned models to forecast the behavior of surrounding agents. Conformal prediction is a statistical tool often used to produce uncertainty-aware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Allen Emmanuel Binny , Anushri Dixit

Multiagent systems consist of agents that locally exchange information through a physical network subject to a graph topology. Current control methods for networked multiagent systems assume the knowledge of graph topologies in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tansel Yucelen , John Daniel Peterson , Kevin L. Moore

We consider the problem of steering a multi-agent system to multi-consensus, namely a regime where groups of agents agree on a given value which may be different from group to group. We first address the problem by using distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Mattia Frasca

In this paper, from the structural perspective, we propose a new stability analysis approach for the consensus of linear multi-agent systems. Different from the general tools: the Laplacian matrix based method and the Lyapunov's method,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Wang Yong , Li Guiming

Adaptive model predictive control (MPC) robustly ensures safety while reducing uncertainty during operation. In this paper, a distributed version is proposed to deal with network systems featuring multiple agents and limited communication.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Anilkumar Parsi , Ahmed Aboudonia , Andrea Iannelli , John Lygeros , Roy S. Smith

In this paper, we discuss distributed adaptive algorithms for synchronization of complex networks, consensus of multi-agents with or without pinning controller. The dynamics of individual node is governed by generalized QUAD condition. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-07-30 Wenlian Lu , Xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

Stability is a critical feature of distributed linear multi-input-multi-output systems. Global asymptotic stability usually can be guaranteed when using decentralised or distributed control architectures, if: (i) conservative controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Daniel O'Keeffe , Stefano Riverso , Laura Albiol-Tendillo , Gordon Lightbody

Efforts in this paper seek to combine graph theory with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) as a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to determine forward-in-time, real-time, approximate optimal controllers for distributed multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Huyen Dinh , Patrick Walters , Warren Dixon

In this paper, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is investigated for distributed optimization problems in a networked multi-agent system. In particular, a new adaptive-gain ADMM algorithm is derived in a closed form and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Towfiq Rahman , Zhihua Qu , Toru Namerikawa

In this paper, we consider the problem of platooning control with mismatched disturbances using the distributed adaptive backstepping method. The main challenges are: (1) maintaining the compositionality and the distributed nature of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Zihao Song , Shirantha Welikala , Panos J. Antsaklis , Hai Lin

In this paper, we study the leaderless consensus problem for multiple Lagrangian systems in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances under directed graphs. For achieving asymptotic behavior, a robust continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Jie Mei

In this paper, we study a distributed optimization problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics. In comparison with existing results for integrators or linear agents, we need to overcome the difficulties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yutao Tang

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

This work aims to address the design of fully distributed control protocols for stochastic consensus, and, for the first time, establishes the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the path-dependent and highly nonlinear closed-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xuping Hou , Xiaofeng Zong , Yong He

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of second-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. Under the standard assumption that local cost functions are strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

This paper presents a novel Lyapunov-based Adaptive Transformer (LyAT) controller for stochastic nonlinear systems. While transformers have shown promise in various control applications due to sequential modeling through self-attention…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Saiedeh Akbari , Xuehui Shen , Wenqian Xue , Jordan C. Insinger , Warren E. Dixon

We propose a technique for the design and analysis of adaptation algorithms in dynamical systems. The technique applies both to systems with conventional Lyapunov-stable target dynamics and to ones of which the desired dynamics around the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tyukin Ivan , Danil Prokhorov , Cees van Leeuwen

This paper is concerned with model reference adaptive controller design for a class of nonlinear fractional order systems. Recent works on this topic rarely include direct methods and they are mostly based on indirect methods where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Seyed Mohammad Moein Mousavi , Mohammad T. H. Beheshti , Amin Ramezani