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Distributed averaging is among the most relevant cooperative control problems, with applications in sensor and robotic networks, distributed signal processing, data fusion, and load balancing. Consensus and gossip algorithms have been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Christel Sirocchi , Alessandro Bogliolo

Multi-robot systems are essential for environmental monitoring, particularly for tracking spatial phenomena like pollution, soil minerals, and water salinity, and more. This study addresses the challenge of deploying a multi-robot team for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Federico Pratissoli , Mattia Mantovani , Amanda Prorok , Lorenzo Sabattini

In this paper, we revisit the distributed coverage control problem with multiple robots on both metric graphs and in non-convex continuous environments. Traditionally, the solutions provided for this problem converge to a locally optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Armin Sadeghi , Ahmad Bilal Asghar , Stephen L. Smith

This paper studies distributed resource allocation problem in multi-agent systems, where all the agents cooperatively minimize the sum of their cost functions with global resource constraints over stochastic communication networks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tie Ding , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Distributed consensus optimization has received considerable attention in recent years; several distributed consensus-based algorithms have been proposed for (nonsmooth) convex and (smooth) nonconvex objective functions. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

The well-studied DISPERSION problem is a fundamental coordination problem in distributed robotics, where a set of mobile robots must relocate so that each occupies a distinct node of a network. DISPERSION assumes that a robot can settle at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Himani , Supantha Pandit , Gokarna Sharma

We present an approach for multi-robot consistent distributed localization and semantic mapping in an unknown environment, considering scenarios with classification ambiguity, where objects' visual appearance generally varies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vladimir Tchuiev , Vadim Indelman

This paper investigates the distributed fixed point seeking problem of sum-separable stochastic operators over the multi-agent network. Based on inexact Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iterations, the communication-efficient distributed algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Fan Li , Lei Xu , Xinlei Yi , Guanghui Wen , Yang Shi , Tao Yang

Motivated by broad applications in various fields of engineering, we study a network resource allocation problem where the goal is to optimally allocate a fixed quantity of resources over a network of nodes. We consider large scale networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Thinh T. Doan , Carolyn L. Beck

This research offers a novel framework for dynamic task assignment for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cooperative search settings. Notably, it incorporates post-fault UAV capabilities into job assignment techniques, assuring operational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Ali Nasir , Mohammad AlDurgam

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji

We propose a method, based on empirical game theory, for a robot operating as part of a team to choose its role within the team without explicitly communicating with team members, by leveraging its knowledge about the team structure. To do…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Fengjun Yang , Negar Mehr , Mac Schwager

Distributed task assignment for multiple agents raises fundamental and novel control theory and robotics problems. A new challenge is the development of distributed algorithms that dynamically assign tasks to multiple agents, not relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yikang Gui , Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Autonomous robots operating in complex, unstructured environments face significant challenges due to latent, unobserved factors that obscure their understanding of both their internal state and the external world. Addressing this challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Lantao Liu

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation algorithm design for multiuser unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems in the presence of UAV jittering and user location uncertainty. In particular, we jointly optimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Dongfang Xu , Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Task allocation plays a vital role in multi-robot autonomous cleaning systems, where multiple robots work together to clean a large area. However, most current studies mainly focus on deterministic, single-task allocation for cleaning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yabin Wang , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Tiedong Ma , Baoxing Qin , Zhou Su

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments using a team of mobile robots demands distributed perception and planning strategies to enable efficient and scalable performance. Ideally, each robot should update its map and plan its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arash Asgharivaskasi , Fritz Girke , Nikolay Atanasov

Optimal sensor placement enhances the efficiency of a variety of applications for monitoring dynamical systems. It has been established that deterministic solutions to the sensor placement problem are insufficient due to the many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Amin Jabini , Erik A. Johnson

Resource allocation and scheduling in multi-agent systems present challenges due to complex interactions and decentralization. This survey paper provides a comprehensive analysis of distributed algorithms for addressing the distributed…

This paper investigates a fully distributed cooperation scheme for networked mobile manipulators. To achieve cooperative task allocation in a distributed way, an adaptation-based estimation law is established for each robotic agent to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yi Ren , Sandra Hirche