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We present a sequential distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme for cooperative control of multi-agent systems with dynamically decoupled heterogeneous nonlinear agents subject to individual constraints. In the scheme, we explore…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Matthias Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Model predictive control (MPC) is a promising approach for the lateral and longitudinal control of autonomous vehicles. However, the parameterization of the MPC with respect to high-level requirements such as passenger comfort as well as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 David Stenger , Robert Ritschel , Felix Krabbes , Rick Voßwinkel , Hendrik Richter

Partially-observable problems pose a trade-off between reducing costs and gathering information. They can be solved optimally by planning in belief space, but that is often prohibitively expensive. Model-predictive control (MPC) takes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Baris Kayalibay , Atanas Mirchev , Ahmed Agha , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

Optimal decision-making under partial observability requires agents to balance reducing uncertainty (exploration) against pursuing immediate objectives (exploitation). In this paper, we introduce a novel policy optimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hany Abdulsamad , Sahel Iqbal , Simo Särkkä

Motion prediction is crucial for autonomous driving, as it enables accurate forecasting of future vehicle trajectories based on historical inputs. This paper introduces Trajectory Mamba, a novel efficient trajectory prediction framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yizhou Huang , Yihua Cheng , Kezhi Wang

This paper introduces a novel distributed consensus-based observer design that enables a group of agents in an undirected communication network to solve the problem of target tracking, where the target is modelled as a chain of integrators…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Marcelo Jacinto , Pedro Trindade , Francisco Rego , Rita Cunha

In this paper we study the problem of tracking an object moving randomly through a network of wireless sensors. Our objective is to devise strategies for scheduling the sensors to optimize the tradeoff between tracking performance and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-02-07 George K. Atia , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Jason A. Fuemmeler

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a fundamental problem in statistical signal processing. In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate their actions to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

We study a large-scale patrol problem with state-dependent costs and multi-agent coordination.We consider heterogeneous agents, rather general reward functions, and the capabilities of tracking agents' trajectories.Given the complexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Jing Fu , Zengfu Wang , Jie Chen

We present a numerically efficient Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) approach, called Set Membership based NMPC (SM-NMPC). In particular, a Set Membership method is used to derive from data an approximation and tight bounds on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Mattia Boggio , Carlo Novara , Michele Taragna

This paper studies optimal consensus tracking problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. By introducing tracking error dynamics, the optimal tracking problem is reformulated as finding a Nash-equilibrium solution of a multi-player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Jilie Zhang , Zhanshan Wang , Hongwei Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of multitarget tracking using a network of sensing agents with unknown positions. Agents have to both localize themselves in the sensor network and, at the same time, perform multitarget tracking in the…

In this study, we explore a collaborative multi-agent stochastic linear bandit setting involving a network of $N$ agents that communicate locally to minimize their collective regret while keeping their expected cost under a specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Amirhossein Afsharrad , Parisa Oftadeh , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Sanjay Lall

Navigating in environments alongside humans requires agents to reason under uncertainty and account for the beliefs and intentions of those around them. Under a sequential decision-making framework, egocentric navigation can naturally be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kevin Alcedo , Pedro U. Lima , Rachid Alami

Countries with access to large bodies of water often aim to protect their maritime transport by employing maritime surveillance systems. However, the number of available sensors (e.g., cameras) is typically small compared to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bach Long Nguyen , Anh-Dzung Doan , Tat-Jun Chin , Christophe Guettier , Surabhi Gupta , Estelle Parra , Ian Reid , Markus Wagner

In wireless communication systems, mmWave beam tracking is a critical task that affects both sensing and communications, as it is related to the knowledge of the wireless channel. We consider a setup in which a Base Station (BS) needs to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Carles Navarro Manchón , Ramoni Adeogun , Petar Popovski

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

Leader-follower tracking control design has received significant attention in recent years due to its important and wide applications. Considering a multi-agent system composed of a leader and multiple followers, this paper proposes and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Chuan Yan , Huazhen Fang

Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that multi-modal sensor training dynamics are often imbalanced:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Heshan Fernando , Quan Xiao , Parikshit Ram , Yi Zhou , Horst Samulowitz , Nathalie Baracaldo , Tianyi Chen