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The inability to communicate poses a major challenge to coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Prior work has explored correlating local policies via shared randomness, sometimes in the form of a correlation device, as a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 John Gardiner , Orlando Romero , Brendan Tivnan , Nicolò Dal Fabbro , George J. Pappas

We present DCL-PC: a logic for reasoning about how the abilities of agents and coalitions of agents are altered by transferring control from one agent to another. The logical foundation of DCL-PC is CL-PC, a logic for reasoning about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Wiebe van der Hoek , Dirk Walther , Michael Wooldridge

Recent studies have shown that multi-step optimization based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) can effectively coordinate the increasing number of distributed renewable energy and storage resources in the power system. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Junyao Guo , Gabriela Hug , Ozan Tonguz

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a computationally demanding control technique that allows dealing with multiple-input and multiple-output systems, while handling constraints in a systematic way. The necessity of solving an optimization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Bulat Khusainov , Eric C. Kerrigan , George A. Constantinides

Cooperative driving, enabled by communication between automated vehicle systems, is expected to significantly contribute to transportation safety and efficiency. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) and platooning are two of the main…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Mahdi Razzaghpour , Shahriar Shahram , Rodolfo Valiente , Yaser P. Fallah

In this paper, we propose a model predictive control (MPC) that accomplishes interactive robotic tasks, in which multiple contacts may occur at unknown locations. To address such scenarios, we made an explicit contact feedback loop in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Seo Wook Han , Maged Iskandar , Jinoh Lee , Min Jun Kim

Cooperative collision avoidance between robots, or `agents,' in swarm operations remains an open challenge. Assuming a decentralized architecture, each agent is responsible for making its own decisions and choosing its control actions. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Georg Schildbach

This tutorial presents cooperative and noncooperative game-theoretic frameworks for modeling, learning, and control in socio-technical systems, where human behavior, incentives, institutions, and social interactions are coupled with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Tamer Başar , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

We present a decentralized minimum-time trajectory optimization scheme based on learning model predictive control for multi-agent systems with nonlinear decoupled dynamics and coupled state constraints. By performing the same task…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Edward L. Zhu , Yvonne R. Stürz , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

The optimization of facility-based systems is considered. First, the congestion game is converted into a matrix form, so that the matrix approach is applicable. Then, a facility-based system with a system performance criterion is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Yaqi Hao , Sisi Pan , Yupeng Qiao , Daizhan Cheng

We present a general approach for controlling robotic systems that make and break contact with their environments. Contact-implicit model predictive control (CI-MPC) generalizes linear MPC to contact-rich settings by utilizing a bi-level…

This work investigates the cooperative output regulation problem of linear multi-agent systems with hybrid sampled data control. Due to the limited data sensing and communication, in many practical situations, only sampled data are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Chao Yang , Zhi-Hong Guan , Ming Chi , Gui-Lin Zheng

This paper presents a hybrid safety-critical coordination architecture for multi-agent systems operating in dense environments. While control barrier functions (CBFs) provide formal safety guarantees, decentralized implementations typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Johannes Autenrieb , Mark Spiller , Hyo-Sang Shin , Namhoon Cho

This paper considers the leader-follower control problem for a linear multi-agent system with undirected topology and linear coupling subject to integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). A consensus-type control protocol is proposed based on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii

This paper presents an uncertainty compensation-based robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) framework for linear systems with both matched and unmatched nonlinear uncertainties subject to both state and input constraints. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Ran Tao , Pan Zhao , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Naira Hovakimyan

Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular approach for trajectory optimization in practical robotics applications. MPC policies can optimize trajectory parameters under kinodynamic and safety constraints and provide guarantees on safety,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Returaj Burnwal , Anirban Santara , Nirav P. Bhatt , Balaraman Ravindran , Gaurav Aggarwal

A comprehensive approach addressing identification and control for learningbased Model Predictive Control (MPC) for linear systems is presented. The design technique yields a data-driven MPC law, based on a dataset collected from the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Enrico Terzi , Lorenzo Fagiano , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini

This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transportation of an object rigidly grasped by $N$ robotic agents. In particular, we propose a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme that guarantees the navigation of the object to…

Research in cooperative games often assumes that agents know the coalitional values with certainty, and that they can belong to one coalition only. By contrast, this work assumes that the value of a coalition is based on an underlying…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Michalis Mamakos , Georgios Chalkiadakis

Iteration limited model predictive control (MPC) can stabilize a feedback control system under sufficient conditions; this work explores combining a low iteration limit MPC with a high iteration limit MPC for mixed-integer quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Luke Fina , Christopher Petersen