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In robotics, ergodic control extends the tracking principle by specifying a probability distribution over an area to cover instead of a trajectory to track. The original problem is formulated as a spectral multiscale coverage problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Suhan Shetty , João Silvério , Sylvain Calinon

This paper addresses the motion planning problem for a team of aerial agents under high level goals. We propose a hybrid control strategy that guarantees the accomplishment of each agent's local goal specification, which is given as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Christos K. Verginis , Ziwei Xu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We investigate a multi-agent planning problem, where each agent aims to achieve an individual task while avoiding collisions with others. We assume that each agent's task is expressed as a Time-Window Temporal Logic (TWTL) specification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Ryan Peterson , Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray , Yasin Yazicioglu

We are given an equal number of mobile robotic agents, and distinct target locations. Each agent has simple integrator dynamics, a limited communication range, and knowledge of the position of every target. We address the problem of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen L. Smith , Francesco Bullo

The problem of controlling multi-agent systems under different models of information sharing among agents has received significant attention in the recent literature. In this paper, we consider a setup where rather than committing to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Sagar Sudhakara , Dhruva Kartik , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

We present DisCo, a distributed algorithm for contact-rich, multi-robot tasks. DisCo is a distributed contact-implicit trajectory optimization algorithm, which allows a group of robots to optimize a time sequence of forces to objects and to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ola Shorinwa , Matthew Devlin , Elliot W. Hawkes , Mac Schwager

We consider a cooperative multi-agent system consisting of a team of agents with decentralized information. Our focus is on the design of symmetric (i.e. identical) strategies for the agents in order to optimize a finite horizon team…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Sagar Sudhakara , Ashutosh Nayyar

Feedback optimization is an increasingly popular control paradigm to optimize dynamical systems, accounting for control objectives that concern the system operation at steady-state. Existing feedback optimization techniques heavily rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Amir Mehrnoosh , Gianluca Bianchin

We investigate the classical active pure exploration problem in Markov Decision Processes, where the agent sequentially selects actions and, from the resulting system trajectory, aims at identifying the best policy as fast as possible. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Aymen Al Marjani , Aurélien Garivier , Alexandre Proutiere

Many robotic applications involve interactions between multiple agents where an agent's decisions affect the behavior of other agents. Such behaviors can be captured by the equilibria of differential games which provide an expressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Talha Kavuncu , Ayberk Yaraneri , Negar Mehr

Current approaches to multi-agent cooperation rely heavily on centralized mechanisms or explicit communication protocols to ensure convergence. This paper studies the problem of distributed multi-agent learning without resorting to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Caroline Wang , Ishan Durugkar , Elad Liebman , Peter Stone

Decentralized multi-agent navigation under uncertainty is a complex task that arises in numerous robotic applications. It requires collision avoidance strategies that account for both kinematic constraints, sensing and action execution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

We study a problem of multi-agent exploration with behaviorally heterogeneous robots. Each robot maps its surroundings using SLAM and identifies a set of areas of interest (AoIs) or frontiers that are the most informative to explore next.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Nirabhra Mandal , Aamodh Suresh , Carlos Nieto-Granda , Sonia Martínez

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-agent systems outperform single agent in complex collaborative tasks. However, in large-scale scenarios, ensuring timely information exchange during decentralized task execution remains a challenge. This work presents an online…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Junjie Wang , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

The paper addresses the problem of providing suitable reference trajectories in motion planning problems for autonomous vehicles. Among the various approaches to compute a reference trajectory, our aim is to find those trajectories which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Matthias Gerdts , Björn Martens

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

This paper addresses the optimal time-invariant formation tracking problem with the aim of providing a distributed solution for multi-agent systems with second-order integrator dynamics. In the literature, most of the results related to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Marco Fabris , Giulio Fattore , Angelo Cenedese

This paper introduces a new approach that leverages Multi-agent Bayesian Optimization (MABO) to design Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) schemes for multi-agent systems. The primary objective is to learn optimal DMPC schemes even…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Hossein Nejatbakhsh Esfahani , Kai Liu , Javad Mohammadpour Velni

This paper presents a decentralized control framework for distribution matching in multi-agent systems (MAS), where agents collectively achieve a prescribed terminal spatial distribution. The problem is formulated using optimal transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Kooktae Lee