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In this paper, structural controllability of a leader-follower multi-agent system with multiple leaders is studied from a graph-theoretic point of view. The problem of preservation of structural controllability under simultaneous failures…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-01 M. Amin Rahimian , Amir G. Aghdam

In this paper, a necessary and sufficient condition for the controllability of networked systems with heterogeneous dynamics is established where the nodes are higher dimensional linear time invariant systems and the network topology is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Abhijith Ajayakumar , Raju K george

Natural, social, and artificial multi-agent systems usually operate in dynamic environments, where the ability to respond to changing circumstances is a crucial feature. An effective collective response requires suitable information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-09-29 David Mateo , Nikolaj Horsevad , Vahid Hassani , Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

Controlling a dynamical system is the ability of changing its configuration arbitrarily through a suitable choice of inputs. It is a very well studied concept in control theory, with wide ranging applications in medicine, biology, social…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Sergiu Ivanov , Ion Petre

The purpose of this review paper is to present some recent results on the modeling and control of large systems of agents. We focus on particular applications where the agents are capable of independent actions instead of simply reacting to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Benedetto Piccoli

We consider the problem of steering a multi-agent system to multi-consensus, namely a regime where groups of agents agree on a given value which may be different from group to group. We first address the problem by using distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Mattia Frasca

In this paper, we investigate distributed multi-agent tracking of a convex set specified by multiple moving leaders with unmeasurable velocities. Various jointly-connected interaction topologies of the follower agents with uncertainties are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Yiguang Hong , K. H. Johansson

Generative agents have proven to be powerful assistants in a wide variety of contexts. Given this success, users are now deploying agents with minimal restrictions in open ended, multi-agent environments. Current methods for monitoring the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hayden Helm , Carey Priebe , Brandon Duderstadt

The recent major developments in information technologies have opened interesting possibilities for the effective management of multi-agent systems. In many cases, the important role of central control nodes can now be undertaken by several…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Filiberto Fele , José M. Maestre , Eduardo F. Camacho

With the gradual advancement of a novel idea of the distributed control of the multiagent systems, an event-triggered control protocol has received significant research attention, especially in designing the controller for the nonlinear…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Gurmu Meseret Debele

Multi-agent coverage control is used as a mechanism to influence the behavior of a group of robots by introducing time-varying domain. The coverage optimization problem is modified to adopt time-varying domains, and the proposed control law…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Xiaotian Xu , Yancy Diaz-Mercado

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

A Multi-Agent System is a distributed system where the agents or nodes perform complex functions that cannot be written down in analytic form. Multi-Agent Systems are highly connected, and the information they contain is mostly stored in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Philippe De Wilde , Gerard Briscoe

We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for leader-follower multi-agent systems such that we can further apply prescribed performance control to achieve the desired formation while satisfying certain transient constraints. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we consider the coordination control of a group of autonomous mobile agents with multiple leaders. Different interconnection topologies are investigated. At first, a necessary and sufficient condition is proved in the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiangping Hu , Yiguang Hong

Distributed controllers are often necessary for a multi-agent system to satisfy safety properties such as collision avoidance. Communication and coordination are key requirements in the implementation of a distributed control protocol, but…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Eric S. Kim , Murat Arcak , Sanjit A. Seshia , BaekGyu Kim , Shinichi Shiraishi

Turn-taking behaviour is simulated in a coupled agents system. Each agent is modelled as a mobile robot with two wheels. A recurrent neural network is used to produce the motor outputs and to hold the internal dynamics. Agents are developed…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Iizuka , Takashi Ikegami

Mobile autonomous system (MAS) becomes pervasive especially in the vehicular and robotic networks. Multiple heterogeneous MAS networks can be integrated together as a multi-layer MAS network to offer holistic services. The network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron