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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

Optimizing communication topology in LLM-based multi-agent system is critical for enabling collective intelligence. Existing methods mainly rely on spatio-temporal interaction paradigms, where the sequential execution of multi-round…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Rui Sun , Jie Ding , Chenghua Gong , Tianjun Gu , Yihang Jiang , Juyuan Zhang , Liming Pan , Linyuan Lü

Mobile backhaul system based on a wireless mesh network using point-to-point millimetre wave links is a promising solution for dense 5G small cell deployments. While mmW radio technology can provide the sufficient capacity, the management…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kari Seppänen , Pekka J. Wainio

In this paper, we first establish an exponential stability result for a class of linear switched systems and then apply this result to show the existence of the distributed observer for a discrete-time leader system over jointly connected…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Tao Liu , Jie Huang

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

The effective use of limited resources for controlling spreading processes on networks is of prime significance in diverse contexts, ranging from the identification of "influential spreaders" for maximizing information dissemination and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Andrey Y. Lokhov , David Saad

In this paper, the possibility of detecting topological variations by observing output trajectories from networked linear time-invariant systems is investigated, where the network topology can be general, but the nodes have identical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Yuqing Hao , Qingyun Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

We study joint learning of network topology and a mixed opinion dynamics, in which agents may have different update rules. Such a model captures the diversity of real individual interactions. We propose a learning algorithm based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Yu Xing , Xudong Sun , Karl H. Johansson

This paper examines the structural controllability for a group of agents, called followers, connected to each other based on the consensus law under commands of multiple leaders, which are agents with superior capabilities, over a fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Milad M. Kazemi , Mohsen Zamani , Zhiyong Chen

The current paper deals with limited-budget output consensus for descriptor multiagent systems with two types of switching communication topologies; that is, switching connected ones and jointly connected ones. Firstly, a singular dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Jianxiang Xi , Cheng Wang , Xiaojun Yang , Bailong Yang

This paper studies a constrained optimization problem over networked systems with an undirected and connected communication topology. The algorithm proposed in this work utilizes singular perturbation, dynamic average consensus, and saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Phuong Huu Hoang , Hyo-Sung Ahn

The theory of network identification, namely identifying the interaction topology among a known number of agents, has been widely developed for linear agents over recent years. However, the theory for nonlinear agents remains less…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Miel Sharf , Daniel Zelazo

The idea of a collective intelligence behind the complex natural structures built by organisms suggests that the organization of social networks is selected so as to optimize problem-solving competence at the group-level. Here we study the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-19 José F. Fontanari , Francisco A. Rodrigues

We consider the optimal coverage problem where a multi-agent network is deployed in an environment with obstacles to maximize a joint event detection probability. The objective function of this problem is non-convex and no global optimum is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Xinmiao Sun , Christos G. Cassandras , Xiangyu Meng

In this paper, we consider the problem of power efficient uplink scheduling in a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) system over a fading wireless channel. The objective is to minimize the power expenditure of each user subject to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar , Vivek S. Borkar

With the rising importance of large-scale network control, the problem of actuator placement has received increasing attention. Our goal in this paper is to find a set of actuators minimizing the metric that measures the average energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Baiwei Guo , Orcun Karaca , Tyler Summers , Maryam Kamgarpour

We consider the following problem - a group of mobile agents perform some task on a terrain modeled as a graph. In a given moment of time an adversary gets an access to the graph and positions of the agents. Shortly before adversary's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Karol Gotfryd , Marek Klonowski , Dominik Pająk

In the stabilizing consensus problem, each agent of a networked system has an input value and is repeatedly writing an output value; it is required that eventually all the output values stabilize to the same value which, moreover, must be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Shlomo Moran

This paper addresses the distributed prescribed-time leader-following consensus problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with perturbed nonlinear agents dynamics and where the topology of the network contains a directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 J. Armando Colunga , Héctor M. Becerra , Carlos R. Vázquez , David Gómez-Gutiérrez

We consider the optimal control design problem for discrete-time LTI systems with state feedback, when the actuation signal is subject to unmeasurable switching propagation delays, due to e.g. the routing in a multi-hop communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Antonio Cicone , Alessandro D'Innocenzo , Nicola Guglielmi , Linda Laglia