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It is always a challenging task to service sudden events in non-convex and uncertain environments, and multi-agent coverage control provides a powerful theoretical framework to investigate the deployment problem of mobile robotic networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chao Zhai , Pengyang Fan

In this paper a decentralized control algorithm for systems composed of $N$ dynamically decoupled agents, coupled by feasibility constraints, is presented. The control problem is divided into $N$ optimal control sub-problems and a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Braghin , Andrew G. Alleyne , Stijn De Bruyne , Edoardo Sabbioni

Recently, ergodic control has been suggested as a means to guide mobile sensors for information gathering tasks. In ergodic control, a mobile sensor follows a trajectory that is ergodic with respect to some information density distribution.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Louis Dressel , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Trajectory planning involving multi-agent interactions has been a long-standing challenge in the field of robotics, primarily burdened by the inherent yet intricate interactions among agents. While game-theoretic methods are widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Zhenmin Huang , Yusen Xie , Benshan Ma , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

A key challenge in disaster response is maintaining situational awareness of an evolving landscape, which requires balancing exploration of unobserved regions with sustained monitoring of changing Regions of Interest (ROIs). Unmanned Aerial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Maria G. Mendoza , Victoria Marie Tuck , Chinmay Maheshwari , Shankar Sastry

We present a novel formulation of ergodic trajectory optimization that can be specified over general domains using kernel maximum mean discrepancy. Ergodic trajectory optimization is an effective approach that generates coverage paths for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Christian Hughes , Houston Warren , Darrick Lee , Fabio Ramos , Ian Abraham

Multi-agent trajectory planning requires ensuring both safety and efficiency, yet deadlocks remain a significant challenge, especially in obstacle-dense environments. Such deadlocks frequently occur when multiple agents attempt to traverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haoze Dong , Meng Guo , Chengyi He , Zhongkui Li

This work views the multi-agent system and its surrounding environment as a co-evolving system, where the behavior of one affects the other. The goal is to take both agent actions and environment configurations as decision variables, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhan Gao , Guang Yang , Amanda Prorok

Multi robot systems have the potential to be utilized in a variety of applications. In most of the previous works, the trajectory generation for multi robot systems is implemented in known environments. To overcome that we present an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Vijay Arvindh , Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Sivanathan K

This paper addresses the task of joint multi-agent perception and planning, especially as it relates to the real-world challenge of collision-free navigation for connected self-driving vehicles. For this task, several communication-enabled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Nathaniel Moore Glaser , Zsolt Kira

In this work, we consider the problem of multi-agent informative path planning (IPP) for robots whose sensor visibility continuously changes as a consequence of a time-varying natural phenomenon. We leverage ergodic trajectory optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Elena Wittemyer , Ananya Rao , Ian Abraham , Howie Choset

We introduce a method called MASCOT (Multi-Agent Shape Control with Optimal Transport) to compute optimal control solutions of agents with shape/formation/density constraints. For example, we might want to apply shape constraints on the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Alex Tong Lin , Stanley J. Osher

In this paper, a distributed convex optimization problem with swarm tracking behavior is studied for continuous-time multi-agent systems. The agents' task is to drive their center to track an optimal trajectory which minimizes the sum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Salar Rahili , Wei Ren , Sheida Ghapani

Autonomous multi-agent systems such as hospital robots and package delivery drones often operate in highly uncertain environments and are expected to achieve complex temporal task objectives while ensuring safety. While learning-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sheryl Paul , Anand Balakrishnan , Xin Qin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Coordination of distributed agents is required for problems arising in many areas, including multi-robot systems, networking and e-commerce. As a formal framework for such problems, we use the decentralized partially observable Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Daniel S. Bernstein , Christopher Amato , Eric A. Hansen , Shlomo Zilberstein

Visual observation of objects is essential for many robotic applications, such as object reconstruction and manipulation, navigation, and scene understanding. Machine learning algorithms constitute the state-of-the-art in many fields but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Heiko Renz , Maximilian Krämer , Frank Hoffmann , Torsten Bertram

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for multiagent offline trajectory generation based on distributed model predictive control. Central to the algorithm's scalability and success is the development of an on-demand collision avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Carlos E. Luis , Angela P. Schoellig

This paper studies the optimal resource allocation problem within a multi-agent network composed of both autonomous agents and humans. The main challenge lies in the globally coupled constraints that link the decisions of autonomous agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Yichen Yao , Ryan Mbagna Nanko , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

Many real-world multiagent learning problems involve safety concerns. In these setups, typical safe reinforcement learning algorithms constrain agents' behavior, limiting exploration -- a crucial component for discovering effective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ayhan Alp Aydeniz , Enrico Marchesini , Robert Loftin , Christopher Amato , Kagan Tumer

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