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In this technical note, we investigate an optimal output consensus problem for heterogeneous uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems. The considered agents are described by high-order nonlinear dynamics subject to both static and dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Yutao Tang , Xinghu Wang

This paper studies the synchronization problem of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with intermittent communication in the presence of irregular communication delays and possible information loss. The control objective is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Time-varying coverage control addresses the challenge of coordinating multiple agents covering an environment where regions of interest change over time. This problem has broad applications, including the deployment of autonomous taxis and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Patrick Benito Eberhard , Johannes Köhler , Oliver Hüsser , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

This paper addresses decentralized control of large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances and limited communication, with the objective of satisfying cooperative Signal Temporal Logic (STL)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-agent systems (MAS) composed of large language models often exhibit improved problem-solving performance despite operating on identical information. In this work, we provide a formal explanation for this phenomenon grounded in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Christopher Scofield

Motivated by the recent interest in formal methods-based control of multi-agent systems, we adopt a bottom-up approach. Each agent is subject to a local signal temporal logic task that may depend on other agents behavior. These dependencies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Formal control of cyber-physical systems allows for synthesis of control strategies from rich specifications such as temporal logics. However, the classes of systems that the formal approaches can be applied to is limited due to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Irmak Saglam , Ebru Aydin Gol

Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

In many applications involving multi-agent system (MAS), it is imperative to test an experimental (Exp) autonomous agent in a high-fidelity simulator prior to its deployment to production, to avoid unexpected losses in the real-world. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Song Wei , Andrea Coletta , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

In this paper, we investigate the controller design problem for linear disturbed systems under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications imposing both spatial and temporal constraints on system behavior. We first implement zonotope-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Wei Ren , Raphael Jungers

This study presents a multi-agent negotiation-based framework to obtain collision-free paths while performing prescribed-time reach-avoid-stay (RAS) tasks for agents with unknown dynamics and bounded disturbance. By employing spatiotemporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Mohd. Faizuddin Faruqui , Ratnangshu Das , Ravi Kumar L , Pushpak Jagtap

Only limited studies and superficial evaluations are available on agents' behaviors and roles within a Multi-Agent System (MAS). We simulate a MAS using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in a pursuit-evasion (a.k.a predator-prey pursuit) game,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Piyush K. Sharma , Erin Zaroukian , Derrik E. Asher , Bryson Howell

This paper studies periodic event-triggered networked control for nonlinear systems, where the plants and controllers are connected by multiple independent communication channels. Several network-induced imperfections are considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Hao Yu , Tongwen Chen

Time-varying hierarchical multi-agent systems are common in many applications. A well-known solution to control these systems is to use state feedback controllers that depend on the adjacency matrix to reach consensus. This solution has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Victor Daniel Reyes Dreke , Mircea Lazar

The optimal control for mobile agents is an important and challenging issue. Recent work shows that using randomized mechanism in agents' control can make the state unpredictable, and thus improve the security of agents. However, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Chendi Qu , Jianping He , Jialun Li

Cooperative information shared among a multi-agent system (MAS) can be useful to agents to efficiently fulfill their missions. Relying on wrong information, however, can have severe consequences. While classical approaches only consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-23 Johannes Müller , Tobias Meuser , Ralf Steinmetz , Michael Buchholz

We propose novel controller synthesis techniques for probabilistic systems modelled using stochastic two-player games: one player acts as a controller, the second represents its environment, and probability is used to capture uncertainty…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Klaus Drager , Vojtech Forejt , Marta Kwiatkowska , David Parker , Mateusz Ujma

In many applications of multi-agent systems (MAS), a set of leader agents acts as a control input to the remaining follower agents. In this paper, we introduce an analytical approach to selecting leader agents in order to minimize the total…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-07 Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

Solving an output consensus problem in multi-agent systems is often hindered by multiple time-variant delays. To address such fundamental problems over time, we present a new optimal time-variant distributed control for linearly perturbed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Milad Gholami

In this paper, we introduce the system theoretic model for the multi-agent MC systems represented by multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) systems using the transfer functions, and then propose a method to analyze the stability for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Taishi Kotsuka , Yutaka Hori