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Maintaining a robust communication network plays an important role in the success of a multi-robot team jointly performing an optimization task. A key characteristic of a robust cooperative multi-robot system is the ability to repair the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Md Ishat-E-Rabban , Guangyao Shi , Griffin Bonner , Pratap Tokekar

The paper present a novel approach for the solution of the Multi-Robot Communication-Aware Trajectory Planning, which builds on a general optimisation framework where the changes in robots positions are used as decision variable, and linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Jeppe Heini Mikkelsen , Roberto Galeazzi , Matteo Fumagalli

We propose a method to maintain high resource in a networked heterogeneous multi-robot system to resource failures. In our model, resources such as and computation are available on robots. The robots engaged in a joint task using these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Ragesh K. Ramachandran , James A. Preiss , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Control barrier functions are widely used to enforce safety properties in robot motion planning and control. However, the problem of constructing barrier functions online and synthesizing safe controllers that can deal with the associated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kehan Long , Cheng Qian , Jorge Cortés , Nikolay Atanasov

With increasing numbers of mobile robots arriving in real-world applications, more robots coexist in the same space, interact, and possibly collaborate. Methods to provide such systems with system size scalability are known, for example,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jonas Kuckling , Robin Luckey , Viktor Avrutin , Andrew Vardy , Andreagiovanni Reina , Heiko Hamann

This paper presents a distributed multi-layer ring barrier coverage algorithm. In order to achieve single-layer ring barrier coverage, a distributed single-layer ring barrier coverage algorithm that maximises the probability of monitoring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Pengyang Fan , Chao Zhai

Cross-platform robot control remains difficult because hardware interfaces, data formats, and control paradigms vary widely, which fragments toolchains and slows deployment. To address this, we present Control Your Robot, a modular,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tian Nian , Weijie Ke , Shaolong Zhu , Bingshan Hu

With continual advancements in technology, efforts to develop robots simulating human behavior have intensified. Cognitive robotics, combined with artificial intelligence (AI), has proven effective in surveying and research analysis.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hariharan Ragothaman , Harihar M , SK Guhananthan

Letting robots emulate human behavior has always posed a challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multiple robots. In this paper, we presented a framework aimed at achieving multi-agent reinforcement learning for robot control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Christine Wun Ki Suen , Zhengbo Zou

This survey presents a comprehensive review of various methods and algorithms related to passing-through control of multi-robot systems in cluttered environments. Numerous studies have investigated this area, and we identify several avenues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yan Gao , Chenggang Bai , Quan Quan

Network connectivity plays an important role in the information exchange between different agents in the multi-level networks. In this paper, we establish a game-theoretic framework to capture the uncoordinated nature of the decision-making…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

Control barrier functions are mathematical constructs used to guarantee safety for robotic systems. When integrated as constraints in a quadratic programming optimization problem, instantaneous control synthesis with real-time performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Mohit Srinivasan , Amogh Dabholkar , Samuel Coogan , Patricio Vela

Safe control in unknown environments is a significant challenge in robotics. While Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) are widely used to guarantee system safety, they often assume known environments with predefined obstacles. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Golnaz Raja , Teemu Mökkönen , Reza Ghabcheloo

Control barrier functions have shown great success in addressing control problems with safety guarantees. These methods usually find the next safe control input by solving an online quadratic programming problem. However, model uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Chuanzheng Wang , Yinan Li , Yiming Meng , Stephen L. Smith , Jun Liu

Tractable safety-ensuring algorithms for cyber-physical systems are important in critical applications. Approaches based on Control Barrier Functions assume continuous enforcement, which is not possible in an online fashion. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Jan Schilliger , Thomas Lew , Spencer M. Richards , Severin Hänggi , Marco Pavone , Christopher Onder

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of 2nd order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is a subset of $R^3$ , with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In decentralized multi-robot navigation, ensuring safe and efficient movement with limited environmental awareness remains a challenge. While robots traditionally navigate based on local observations, this approach falters in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Senthil Hariharan Arul , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

This paper introduces a new generalized control method designed for multi-degrees-of-freedom devices to help people with limited motion capabilities in their daily activities. The challenge lies in finding the most adapted strategy for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Maddalena Feder , Giorgio Grioli , Manuel G. Catalano , Antonio Bicchi

Implementing obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments is a challenging problem for robots. Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular strategy for dealing with this type of problem, and recent work mainly uses control barrier function…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zetao Lu , Kaijun Feng , Jun Xu , Haoyao Chen , Yunjiang Lou

Despite significant advancement in technology, communication and computational failures are still prevalent in safety-critical engineering applications. Often, networked control systems experience packet dropouts, leading to open-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Marc Seidel , Mahathi Anand , Frank Allgöwer