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This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Takumi Namba

A novel distributed algorithm is proposed for finite-time converging to a feasible consensus solution satisfying global optimality to a certain accuracy of the distributed robust convex optimization problem (DRCO) subject to bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Xunhao Wu , Jun Fu

We propose a novel algorithm for solving convex, constrained and distributed optimization problems defined on multi-agent-networks, where each agent has exclusive access to a part of the global objective function. The agents are able to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Jan Zimmermann , Tatiana Tatarenko , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy

We consider the problem of controlling the movement of multiple cooperating agents so as to minimize an uncertainty metric associated with a finite number of targets. In a one-dimensional mission space, we adopt an optimal control framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Nan Zhou , Xi Yu , Sean B. Andersson , Christos G. Cassandras

We consider a convex unconstrained optimization problem that arises in a network of agents whose goal is to cooperatively optimize the sum of the individual agent objective functions through local computations and communications. For this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-11 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , Asuman Ozdaglar , John N. Tsitsiklis

In this paper, we propose an approach for solving an energy-optimal goal assignment problem to generate the desired formation in multi-agent systems. Each agent solves a decentralized optimization problem with only local information about…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Heeseung Bang , Logan Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

In this paper, we study the problem of distributed multi-agent optimization over a network, where each agent possesses a local cost function that is smooth and strongly convex. The global objective is to find a common solution that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Shi Pu , Angelia Nedić

In this paper, a distributed subgradient-based algorithm is proposed for continuous-time multi-agent systems to search a feasible solution to convex inequalities. The algorithm involves each agent achieving a state constrained by its own…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

Agent behavior is arguably the greatest source of uncertainty in trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles. This problem has motivated significant amounts of work in the behavior prediction community on learning rich distributions of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Allen Wang , Ashkan Jasour , Brian Williams

In this paper, a distributed optimal steady-state regulation problem is formulated and investigated for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems subject to external disturbances. We aim to steer this high-order multi-agent network to a…

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

We consider minimizing a sum of agent-specific nondifferentiable merely convex functions over the solution set of a variational inequality (VI) problem in that each agent is associated with a local monotone mapping. This problem finds an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Harshal D. Kaushik , Sepideh Samadi , Farzad Yousefian

This note is devoted to the distributed optimization problem of multi-agent systems with nonconvex velocity constraints, nonuniform position constraints and nonuniform stepsizes. Two distributed constrained algorithms with nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

This paper considers the problem of multi-agent distributed optimization. In this problem, there are multiple agents in the system, and each agent only knows its local cost function. The objective for the agents is to collectively compute a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

We study a problem of multi-agent exploration with behaviorally heterogeneous robots. Each robot maps its surroundings using SLAM and identifies a set of areas of interest (AoIs) or frontiers that are the most informative to explore next.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Nirabhra Mandal , Aamodh Suresh , Carlos Nieto-Granda , Sonia Martínez

A distributed cooperative control law for persistent coverage tasks is proposed, capable of coordinating a team of heterogeneous agents in a structured environment. Team heterogeneity is considered both at vehicles' dynamics and at coverage…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Alberto Mellone , Giovanni Franzini , Lorenzo Pollini , Mario Innocenti

Resource allocation and scheduling in multi-agent systems present challenges due to complex interactions and decentralization. This survey paper provides a comprehensive analysis of distributed algorithms for addressing the distributed…

This paper provides a novel solution to a task allocation problem, by which a group of agents decides on the assignment of a discrete set of tasks in a distributed manner. In this setting, heterogeneous agents have individual preferences…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Nirabhra Mandal , Mohammad Khajenejad , Sonia Martínez

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