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We study the formation control problem for a group of mobile agents in a plane, in which each agent is modeled as a kinematic point and can only use the local measurements in its local frame. The agents are required to maintain a geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Chen Wang , Shuai Li , Weiguo Xia , Jinan Sun , Guangming Xie

We introduce a novel distributed sampled-data control method tailored for heterogeneous multi-agent systems under a global spatio-temporal task with acyclic dependencies. Specifically, we consider the global task as a conjunction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Gregorio Marchesini , Siyuan Liu , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose a distributed control, in which many identical control agents are deployed for controlling a linear time-invariant plant that has multiple input-output channels. Each control agent can join or leave the control loop during the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Taekyoo Kim , Donggil Lee , Hyungbo Shim

This paper studies the synchronization problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with intermittent communication in the presence of irregular communication delays and possible information loss. The control objective is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

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 article aims to improve the performance of networked multi-agent systems, which are common representations of cyber-physical systems. The rate of convergence to consensus of multi-agent networks is critical to ensure cohesive, rapid…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Santosh Devasia

This work presents a new method to design consensus controllers for perturbed double integrator systems whose interconnection is described by a directed graph containing a rooted spanning tree. We propose new robust controllers to solve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Jose Guadalupe Romero , David Navarro-Alarcon

Distributed dynamic compensators, also known as distributed observer, play a key role in the output consensus problem of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems. However, most existing distributed dynamic compensators require either the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Guangqi Li , Long Wang

We study the general formation problem for a group of mobile agents in a plane, in which the agents are required to maintain a distribution pattern, as well as to rotate around or remain static relative to a static/moving target. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Chen Wang , Weiguo Xia , Jinan Sun , Ruifeng Fan , Guangming Xie

We consider a scenario where multiple agents are learning a common decision vector from data which can be influenced by the agents' decisions. This leads to the problem of multi-agent performative prediction (Multi-PfD). In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Qiang Li , Chung-Yiu Yau , Hoi-To Wai

We introduce a class of distributed control policies for networks of discrete-time linear systems with polytopic additive disturbances. The objective is to restrict the network-level state and controls to user-specified polyhedral sets for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

This paper studies distributed resilient consensus problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems susceptible to deception attacks. The attacks invade both sensor and actuator channels of each agent. A specific class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mengze Yu , Wei Wang , Jiaqi Yan

In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning approach to designing a control policy for a "leader" agent that herds a swarm of "follower" agents, via repulsive interactions, as quickly as possible to a target probability distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Zahi M. Kakish , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Spring Berman

This paper presents a Multi-Agent Norm Perception and Induction Learning Model aimed at facilitating the integration of autonomous agent systems into distributed healthcare environments through dynamic interaction processes. The nature of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Chao Li , Olga Petruchik , Elizaveta Grishanina , Sergey Kovalchuk

We study resilient leader-follower consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of adversarial agents, where agents' communication is modeled by time-varying topologies. The objective is to develop distributed algorithms for the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

An autonomous and resilient controller is proposed for leader-follower multi-agent systems under uncertainties and cyber-physical attacks. The leader is assumed non-autonomous with a nonzero control input, which allows changing the team…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

Controllability refers to a situation in which a Multi-agent System may be steered from one state to another using specified rules. As a result, there is belief in achieving a given condition by explicit advances. The level of dynamism in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Javeria Noor

This paper studies a class of consensus dynamics where the interactions between agents are affected by a time-varying unknown scaling factor. This situation is encountered in the control of robotic fleets over a wireless network or in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Zoltan Nagy , Irinel-Constantin Morarescu , Lucian Busoniu

The problem of consensus in the presence of misbehaving agents has increasingly attracted attention in the literature. Prior results have established algorithms and graph structures for multi-agent networks which guarantee the consensus of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-28 James Usevitch , Dimitra Panagou

This paper addresses the problem of fixed-time cooperative output regulation for linear multi-agent systems over directed graphs under denial-of-service attacks. A novel distributed resilient fixed-time controller is developed that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Wenji Cao , Lu Liu , Dan Zhang , Gang Feng