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Modern unmanned systems, including aerial, terrestrial, and underwater vehicles, are increasingly utilized in dynamic and unpredictable environments, where the presence of modeling uncertainties necessitates the development of robust and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Maryam Norouzi , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

Learning weights in a spiking neural network with hidden neurons, using local, stable and online rules, to control non-linear body dynamics is an open problem. Here, we employ a supervised scheme, Feedback-based Online Local Learning Of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-19 Aditya Gilra , Wulfram Gerstner

The complex tasks such as surveillance, construction, search and rescue can benefit of the maneuverability of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to obtain robust, cooperative system behavior and formation control is a prominent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-09 I. Kagan Erunsal , Rodrigo Ventura , Alcherio Martinoli

This paper deals with the tracking control problem for a very simple class of unknown nonlinear systems. In this paper, we presents a design strategy for tracking control of time-varying state constrained nonlinear systems in an adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Pankaj Kumar Mishra , Nishchal K Verma

In this paper, the formation control of multi-agent systems in random switching communication topology is studied, and the problem of excessive bandwidth and low control efficiency among multi-agents is solved. For nonlinear multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Ouyang Lingcong , Yang Kaijun

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative formation control for multi-agent systems with limited resources. We consider a team of robots tasked with achieving a desired formation from an arbitrary initial configuration. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Evangelos Psomiadis , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper addresses the problem of bearing leader-follower formation control in three-dimensional space by exploring the persistence of excitation (PE) of the desired formation. Using only bearing and relative velocity measurements,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Zhiqi Tang , Rita Cunha , Tarek Hamel , Carlos Silvestre

This paper presents a novel control protocol for robust distance-based formation control with prescribed performance in which agents are subjected to unknown external disturbances. Connectivity maintenance and collision avoidance among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Farhad Mehdifar , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Farzad Hashemzadeh , Mahdi Baradarannia

Angle-constrained formation control has attracted much attention from control community due to the advantage that inter-edge angles are invariant under uniform translations, rotations, and scalings of the whole formation. However, almost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Kun Li , Zhixi Shen , Gangshan Jing , Yongduan Song

Concerning general multi-agent systems with limited communication, this paper proposes distributed formation control protocols under adaptive event-triggered schemes to operate affine transformations of nominal formations. To accommodate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Chenjun Liu , Jason J. R. Liu , Zhan Shu , James Lam

This paper addresses the leader-following consensus problem for discrete-time positive multi-agent systems over time-varying graphs. We assume that the followers may have mutually different positive dynamics which can also be different from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Ruonan Li , Yichen Zhang , Yutao Tang , Shurong Li

In this paper, a distributed learning leader-follower consensus protocol based on Gaussian process regression for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics is designed. We propose a distributed learning approach to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Zewen Yang , Stefan Sosnowski , Qingchen Liu , Junjie Jiao , Armin Lederer , Sandra Hirche

This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tansel Yucelen , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper is concerned with bearing-based cooperative target entrapping control of multiple uncertain agents with arbitrary maneuvers including shape deformation, rotations, scalings, etc. A leader-follower structure is used, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Haifan Su , Ziwen Yang , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Wenbin Yu

Geometric pattern formation is crucial in many tasks involving large-scale multi-agent systems. Examples include mobile agents performing surveillance, swarm of drones or robots, or smart transportation systems. Currently, most control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Andrea Giusti , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Davide Fiore , Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

The paper investigates nonlinear system identification using system output data at various linearized operating points. A feed-forward multi-layer Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based approach is used for this purpose and tested for two…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sayan Saha , Saptarshi Das , Anish Acharya , Abhishek Kumar , Sumit Mukherjee , Indranil Pan , Amitava Gupta

This paper investigates a distributed goal assignment problem in leader-following formation control of second-order multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent can communicate with nearby agents within the communication range and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Yun Ho Choi , Doik Kim

We propose new methods for learning control policies and neural network Lyapunov functions for nonlinear control problems, with provable guarantee of stability. The framework consists of a learner that attempts to find the control and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Ya-Chien Chang , Nima Roohi , Sicun Gao

This paper introduces a novel approach for achieving fixed-time tracking consensus control in multiagent systems (MASs). Departing from the reliance on traditional controllers, our innovative controller integrates modified tuning and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Kewei Zhou , Ziming Wang , Zhihao Chen , Xin Wang

This work presents a control-oriented identification scheme for efficient control design and stability analysis of nonlinear systems. Neural networks are used to identify a discrete-time nonlinear state-space model to approximate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Maxime Thieffry , Alexandre Hache , Mohamed Yagoubi , Philippe Chevrel