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Today's distributed systems operate in complex environments that inevitably involve faults and even adversarial behaviors. Predicting their performance under such environments directly from formal designs remains a longstanding challenge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ziwei Zhou , Si Liu , Zhou Zhou , Peixin Wang , MIn Zhang

This paper proposes an approach to addresses the control challenges posed by a fault-induced uncertainty in both the dynamics and control input effectiveness of a class of hierarchical nonlinear systems in which the high-level dynamics is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Sina Ameli , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

We consider the distributed leader-follower consensus problem with event-triggered communications. The system under consideration is a non-linear input-affine multi agent system. The agents are assumed to have identical dynamics structure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Mathieu Marchand , Vincent Andrieu , Sylvain Bertrand , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

Inspired and underpinned by the idea of integral feedback, a distributed constant gain algorithm is proposed for multi-agent networks to solve convex optimization problems with local linear constraints. Assuming agent interactions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Xuan Wang , Shaoshuai Mou , Brian. D. O. Anderson

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

Federated learning has emerged as an umbrella term for centralized coordination strategies in multi-agent environments. While many federated learning architectures process data in an online manner, and are hence adaptive by nature, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

This paper addresses a formation tracking problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems with time-varying actuator faults, in which only a subset of agents has access to the leader's information over the directed leader-follower network with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Z. Feng , G. Hu

In the expanding field of machine learning, federated learning has emerged as a pivotal methodology for distributed data environments, ensuring privacy while leveraging decentralized data sources. However, the heterogeneity of client data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Alice Smith , Bob Johnson , Michael Geller

In the typical multiagent formation tracking problem centered on consensus, the prevailing assumption in the literature is that the agents' nonlinear models can be approximated by integrator systems, by their feedback-linearized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Clinton Enwerem , John S. Baras

This paper considers the tracking control problem for an unknown nonlinear system with time-varying bounded disturbance subjected to a prescribed performance and input constraints. When performance and input constraints are specified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Pankaj K Mishra , Pushpak Jagtap

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

Distributed model predictive control (MPC) has been proven a successful method in regulating the operation of large-scale networks of constrained dynamical systems. This paper is concerned with cooperative distributed MPC in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Georgios Darivianakis , Angelos Georghiou , John Lygeros

In this paper, we address the problem of prescribed-time leader-following consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of unknown sensor sensitivity. Under a connected undirected topology, we propose a time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Hefu Ye , Changyun Wen , Yongduan Song

Accurate traffic prediction is essential for Intelligent Transportation Systems, including ride-hailing, urban road planning, and vehicle fleet management. However, due to significant privacy concerns surrounding traffic data, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zijian Zhao , Yitong Shang , Sen Li

This paper studies cooperative tracking problem of heterogeneous Euler-Lagrange systems with an uncertain leader. Different from most existing works, system dynamic knowledge of the leader node is unaccessible to any follower node in our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Shimin Wang , Hongwei Zhang , Zhiyong Chen

Performative prediction is a framework that captures distribution shifts that occur during the training of machine learning models due to their deployment. As the trained model is used, data generation causes the model to evolve, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xue Zheng , Tian Xie , Xuwei Tan , Aylin Yener , Xueru Zhang

In this technical note, we investigate an optimal output consensus problem for heterogeneous uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems. The considered agents are described by high-order nonlinear dynamics subject to both static and dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Yutao Tang , Xinghu Wang

In this paper, the practical output consensus problem for heterogeneous high-order leader-follower multi-agent systems under directed communication topology containing a directed spanning tree and subject to large-scale mismatched…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Mengling Li , Ze-Hao Wu , Feiqi Deng , Zhi-Liang Zhao

We consider the problem of optimizing the economic performance of nonlinear constrained systems subject to uncertain time-varying parameters and bounded disturbances. In particular, we propose an adaptive economic model predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Maximilian Degner , Raffaele Soloperto , Melanie N. Zeilinger , John Lygeros , Johannes Köhler

Multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF) robotic manipulators exhibit strongly nonlinear, high-dimensional, and coupled dynamics, posing significant challenges for controller design. To address these issues, this work proposes a unified hybrid control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Xinyu Qiao , Yongyang Xiong , Yu Han , Keyou You