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We address density control problems for large-scale multi-agent systems in leader-follower settings, where a group of controllable leaders must steer a population of followers toward a desired spatial distribution. Unlike prior work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

This paper studies the synthesis of controllers for cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that are required to carry out complex tasks that are time-sensitive, in the presence of an adversary. The task is specified as a formula in metric interval…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

This paper studies robust tracking control for a leader-follower multi-agent system (MAS) subject to disturbances. A challenging problem is considered here, which differs from those in the literature in two aspects. First, we consider the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Chuan Yan , Huazhen Fang

In many multi-agent systems of practical interest, such as traffic networks or crowd evacuation, control actions cannot be exerted on all agents. Instead, controllable leaders must indirectly steer uncontrolled followers through local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Davide Salzano , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

We consider the feedback design for stabilizing a rigid body system by making and breaking multiple contacts with the environment without prespecifying the timing or the number of occurrence of the contacts. We model such a system as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Weiqiao Han , Russ Tedrake

In this paper, we tackle the state transformation problem in non-strict full state-constrained systems by introducing an adaptive fixed-time control method, utilizing a one-to-one asymmetric nonlinear mapping auxiliary system. Additionally,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Chenglin Gong , Ziming Wang , Guanxuan Jiang , Xin Wang , Yiding Ji

This paper investigates event-triggered consensus tracking in nonlinear semi-strict-feedback multi-agent systems involving one leader and multiple followers. We first employ radial basis function neural networks and backstepping techniques…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Ziming Wang , Yun Gao , Apostolos I. Rikos , Ning Pang , Yiding Ji

In time-critical systems, such as air traffic control systems, it is crucial to design control policies that are robust to timing uncertainty. Recently, the notion of Asynchronous Temporal Robustness (ATR) was proposed to capture the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Xinyi Yu , Xiang Yin , Lars Lindemann

This paper investigates an aperiodic distributed model predictive control approach for multi-agent systems (MASs) in which parameterized synchronization constraints is considered and an innovative self-triggered criterion is constructed.…

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

In this paper, we propose an inverse-kinematics controller for a class of multi-robot systems in the scenario of sampled communication. The goal is to make a group of robots perform trajectory tracking in a coordinated way when the sampling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Enrica Rossi , Marco Tognon , Luca Ballotta , Ruggero Carli , Juan Cortés , Antonio Franchi , Luca Schenato

We consider the problem of synchronizing a multi-agent system (MAS) composed of several identical linear systems connected through a directed graph.To design a suitable controller, we construct conditions based on Bilinear Matrix…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Nicola Zaupa , Luca Zaccarian , Isabelle Queinnec , Sophie Tarbouriech , Giulia Giordano

We propose a new method for controlled system synthesis on non-deterministic automata, which includes the synthesis for deadlock-freeness, as well as invariant and reachability expressions. Our technique restricts the behavior of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Allan van Hulst , Michel Reniers , Wan Fokkink

This paper is concerned with the leader-following consensus problem for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear multi-agent systems with uncertain dynamics, where each agent only transmits its noisy output, at discrete instants and independently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Tomas Menard , Ali Syed , Emmanuel Moulay , Patrick Coirault , Michael Defoort

In this work, leader follower consensus objective has been addressed with the synthesis of an event based controller utilizing sliding mode robust control. The schema has been partitioned into two parts viz. finite time consensus problem…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Abhinav Sinha , Rajiv Kumar Mishra

We propose novel controller synthesis techniques for probabilistic systems modelled using stochastic two-player games: one player acts as a controller, the second represents its environment, and probability is used to capture uncertainty…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Klaus Drager , Vojtech Forejt , Marta Kwiatkowska , David Parker , Mateusz Ujma

In this paper, we consider the coordination control of a group of autonomous mobile agents with multiple leaders. Different interconnection topologies are investigated. At first, a necessary and sufficient condition is proved in the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiangping Hu , Yiguang Hong , Linxin Gao

Heterogeneous systems consisting of a multiloop wireless control system (WCS) and a mobile agent system (MAS) are ubiquitous in Industrial Internet of Things systems. Within these systems, the positions of mobile agents may lead to shadow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Shuling Wang , Peizhe Li , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

This paper considers the leader-follower tracking control problem for linear interconnected systems with undirected topology and linear dynamic coupling. Interactions between the systems are treated as linear dynamic uncertainty and are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii

This paper presents a consensus-based formation control strategy for autonomous agents moving in the plane with continuous-time single integrator dynamics. In order to save wireless resources (bandwidth, energy, etc), the designed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Fabio Molinari , Joerg Raisch

In this paper, we propose a new and systematic design framework for output consensus in heterogeneous Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) general nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) subjected to directed communication topology. First, the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Dinh Hoa Nguyen