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This paper considers centralized mission-planning for a heterogeneous multi-agent system with the aim of locating a hidden target. We propose a mixed observable setting, consisting of a fully observable state-space and a partially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kasper Johansson , Ugo Rosolia , Wyatt Ubellacker , Andrew Singletary , Aaron D. Ames

In this paper we introduce the notion of optimization under control and communication constraint in a robotic network. Starting from a general setup, we focus our attention on the problem of achieving rendezvous in minimum time for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized control method to maintain Line-of-Sight connectivity for multi-robot networks in the presence of Guassian-distributed localization uncertainty. In contrast to most existing work that assumes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yupeng Yang , Yiwei Lyu , Yanze Zhang , Sha Yi , Wenhao Luo

We consider a system consisting of multiple mobile robots in which the user can at any time issue relocation tasks ordering one of the robots to move from its current location to a given destination location. In this paper, we deal with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Michal Čáp , Jiří Vokřínek , Alexander Kleiner

In this work, we study the consensus problem in which legitimate agents send their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of an unknown subset of malicious or faulty agents. In contrast to former works, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Orhan Eren Akgün , Sarper Aydın , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

This two-part paper discusses robustification methodologies for linear-iterative distributed algorithms for consensus and coordination problems in multicomponent systems, in which unreliable communication links may drop packets. We consider…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-30 Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Nitin H. Vaidya

Assume that a target is known to be present at an unknown point among a finite set of locations in the plane. We search for it using a mobile robot that has imperfect sensing capabilities. It takes time for the robot to move between…

This article investigates discrete-time matrix-weighted consensus of multi-agent networks over undirected and connected graphs. We first present consensus protocols for the agents in common networks of symmetric matrix weights with possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Quoc Van Tran , Minh Hoang Trinh , Hyo-Sung Ahn

This research investigates decentralized control of mobile robots specifically for coverage problems. There are different approaches associated with decentralized control strategy for coverage control problems. We perform a comparative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Waqqas Ahmad

This paper considers the problem of decentralized goal assignment and trajectory generation for multi-robot networks when only local communication is available, and proposes an approach based on methods related to switched systems and set…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Dimitra Panagou , Matthew Turpin , Vijay Kumar

This project proposes a bioinspired multi-robot system using Distributed Optimization for efficient exploration and mapping of unknown environments. Each robot explores its environment and creates a map, which is afterwards put together to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Roman Ibrahimov , Jannik Matthias Heinen

Decentralized control of mobile robotic sensor networks is a fundamental problem in robotics that has attracted intensive research in recent decades. Most of the existing works dealt with two-dimensional spaces. This report is concerned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Vali Nazarzehi

This work addresses the coordination problem of multiple robots with the goal of finding specific hazardous targets in an unknown area and dealing with them cooperatively. The desired behaviour for the robotic system entails multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nunzia Palmieri , Xin-She Yang , Floriano De Rango , Amilcare Francesco Santamaria

Localization, that is the estimation of a robot's location from sensor data, is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. This papers presents a version of Markov localization which provides accurate position estimates and which is tailored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 W. Burgard , D. Fox , S. Thrun

Robot navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans is an important but challenging task, which suffers from performance deterioration as the crowd grows. In this paper, multi-subgoal robot navigation approach based on deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xinyi Yu , Jianan Hu , Yuehai Fan , Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou

This paper introduces Probabilistic Chekov (p-Chekov), a chance-constrained motion planning system that can be applied to high degree-of-freedom (DOF) robots under motion uncertainty and imperfect state information. Given process and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Siyu Dai , Shawn Schaffert , Ashkan Jasour , Andreas Hofmann , Brian Williams

Multi-robot patrolling is the potential application for robotic systems to survey wide areas efficiently without human burdens and mistakes. However, such systems have few examples of real-world applications due to their lack of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kazuho Kobayashi , Seiya Ueno , Takehiro Higuchi

This paper considers a multiagent, connected, robotic fleet where the primary functionality of the agents is sensing. A distributed multi-sensor control strategy maximizes the value of the collective sensing capability of the fleet, using…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Tianqi Li , Lucas W. Krakow , Swaminathan Gopalswamy

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 proposes a distributed algorithm for average consensus in a multi-agent system under a fixed bidirectional communication topology, in the presence of malicious agents (nodes) that may try to influence the average consensus…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia