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This note further studies the previously proposed consensus protocol for linear multi-agent systems with communication noises in [15], [16]. Each agent is allowed to have its own time-varying gain to attenuate the effect of communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Long Cheng , Yunpeng Wang , Wei Ren , Zeng-Guang Hou , Min Tan

A problem of distributed state estimation at multiple agents that are physically connected and have competitive interests is mapped to a distributed source coding problem with additional privacy constraints. The agents interact to estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a multi-agent system in which a decentralized team of agents controls a stochastic system in the presence of an adversary. Instead of committing to a fixed information sharing protocol, the agents can strategically decide at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Dhruva Kartik , Sagar Sudhakara , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

We study stochastic multi-agent systems in which agents must cooperate to maximize the probability of achieving a common reach-avoid objective. In many applications, during the execution of the system, the communication between the agents…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saleh Soudijani , Rayna Dimitrova

This work mainly addresses continuous-time multiagent consensus networks where an adverse attacker affects the convergence performances of said protocol. In particular, we develop a novel secure-by-design approach in which the presence of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Marco Fabris , Daniel Zelazo

A generalized family of Adversary Robust Consensus protocols is proposed and analyzed. These are distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems seeking to agree on a common value of a shared variable, even in the presence of faulty or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 David Angeli , Sabato Manfredi

This paper presents a consensus protocol that achieves max-consensus in multi-agent systems over wireless channels. Interference, a feature of the wireless channel, is exploited: each agent receives a superposition of broadcast data, rather…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Fabio Molinari , Sławomir Stańczak , Jörg Raisch

The paper considers the problem of multi-agent consensus in the presence of adversarial agents which may try to prevent and introduce undesired influence on the coordination among the regular agents. To our setting, we extend the so-called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Hiroki Matsume , Yuan Wang , Hideaki Ishii

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

We consider a multi-agent system where agents aim to achieve a consensus despite interactions with malicious agents that communicate misleading information. Physical channels supporting communication in cyberphysical systems offer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Michal Yemini

In this work, we consider the consensus problem in which legitimate agents share their values over an undirected communication network in the presence of malicious or faulty agents. Different from the previous works, we characterize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Sarper Aydın , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

In this paper, we study the continuous-time consensus problem in the presence of adversaries. The networked multi-agent system is modeled as a switched system, where the normal agents have integrator dynamics and the switching signal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Heath J. LeBlanc , Haotian Zhang , Shreyas Sundaram , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This paper considers the distributed consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems subject to different matching uncertainties for both the cases without and with a leader of bounded unknown control input. Due to the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Frank Lewis

This paper studies the multi-agent average consensus problem under the requirement of differential privacy of the agents' initial states against an adversary that has access to all the messages. We first establish that a differentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Erfan Nozari , Pavankumar Tallapragada , Jorge Cortés

The consensus control with optimal cost remains major challenging although consensus control problems have been well studied in recent years. In this paper, we study the consensus control of multi-agent system associated with a given cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang

The constrained consensus problem considered in this paper, denoted interval consensus, is characterized by the fact that each agent can impose a lower and upper bound on the achievable consensus value. Such constraints can be encoded in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Angela Fontan , Guodong Shi , Xiaoming Hu , Claudio Altafini

In this paper we propose a novel consensus protocol for discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS), which solves the dynamic consensus problem on the max value, i.e., the dynamic max-consensus problem. In the dynamic max-consensus problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Alessandro Giua

This paper investigates the problem of consensus tracking control of discrete time multi-agent systems under binary-valued communication. Different from most existing studies on consensus tracking, the transmitted information between agents…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ting Wang , Zhuangzhuang Qiu , Xiaodong Lu , Yanlong Zhao

Growing at a fast pace, modern autonomous systems will soon be deployed at scale, opening up the possibility for cooperative multi-agent systems. Sharing information and distributing workloads allow autonomous agents to better perform tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 James Tu , Tsunhsuan Wang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

This paper focuses on the problem of distributed consensus control of multi-agent systems while considering two main practical concerns (i) stochastic noise in the agent dynamics and (ii) predefined performance constraints over evolutions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Pushpak Jagtap , Dimos V. Dimarogonas