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This work views the multi-agent system and its surrounding environment as a co-evolving system, where the behavior of one affects the other. The goal is to take both agent actions and environment configurations as decision variables, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhan Gao , Guang Yang , Amanda Prorok

Providing a comprehensive view of the city operation and offering useful metrics for decision making is a well known challenge for urban risk analysis systems. Existing systems are, in many cases, generalizations of previous domain specific…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-10 David Carraminana , Ana M. Bernardos , Juan A. Besada , Jose R. Casar

The growing spread of robots for service and industrial purposes calls for versatile, intuitive and portable interaction approaches. In particular, in industrial environments, operators should be able to interact with robots in a fast,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Valeria Villani , Beatrice Capelli , Lorenzo Sabattini

We present a framework combining hierarchical and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approaches to solve coordination problems among a multitude of agents using a semi-decentralized model. The framework extends the multi-agent learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Saurabh Kumar , Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

This paper presents a framework to enable a team of heterogeneous mobile robots to model and sense a multiscale system. We propose a coupled strategy, where robots of one type collect high-fidelity measurements at a slow time scale and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tahiya Salam , M. Ani Hsieh

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown increasing promise for collaborative task completion. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on static workflows, fixed roles, and limited inter-agent communication, reducing their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxuan Xia , Qianye Wu , Sixuan Tian , Yilun Hao

This paper introduces Project Synapse, a novel agentic framework designed for the autonomous resolution of last-mile delivery disruptions. Synapse employs a hierarchical multi-agent architecture in which a central Resolution Supervisor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Arin Gopalan Yadav , Varad Dherange , Kumar Shivam

This paper investigates a robust positive consensus problem for a class of heterogeneous high-order multi-agent systems subject to external inputs. Compared with existing multi-agent consensus results, the most distinct feature of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Ruonan Li , Yutao Tang , Shurong Li

Letting robots emulate human behavior has always posed a challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multiple robots. In this paper, we presented a framework aimed at achieving multi-agent reinforcement learning for robot control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Christine Wun Ki Suen , Zhengbo Zou

A shield is attached to a system to guarantee safety by correcting the system's behavior at runtime. Existing methods that employ design-time synthesis of shields do not scale to multi-agent systems. Moreover, such shields are typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Dhananjay Raju , Suda Bharadwaj , Ufuk Topcu

In many multi-agent systems, communication is limited by bandwidth, latency, and energy constraints. Designing controllers that achieve coordination and safety with minimal communication is critical for scalable and reliable deployment.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Mo Yang , Jing Yu , Necmiye Ozay

We propose a new multi-agent task grammar to encode collaborative tasks for a team of heterogeneous agents that can have overlapping capabilities. The grammar allows users to specify the relationship between agents and parts of the task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Amy Fang , Hadas Kress-Gazit

Autonomous systems such as self-driving cars and general-purpose robots are safety-critical systems that operate in highly uncertain and dynamic environments. We propose an interactive multi-agent framework where the system-under-design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Xin Qin , Nikos Aréchiga , Andrew Best , Jyotirmoy Deshmukh

In this paper, we present a novel framework for enhancing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by leveraging the power of multi-agent systems. Our framework introduces a collaborative environment where multiple intelligent agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yashar Talebirad , Amirhossein Nadiri

An autonomous and resilient controller is proposed for leader-follower multi-agent systems under uncertainties and cyber-physical attacks. The leader is assumed non-autonomous with a nonzero control input, which allows changing the team…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

This work addresses the coordination problem of multiple robots with the goal of finding specific hazardous targets in an unknown area and dealing with them cooperatively. The desired behaviour for the robotic system entails multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nunzia Palmieri , Xin-She Yang , Floriano De Rango , Amilcare Francesco Santamaria

Cooperative perception has attracted wide attention given its capability to leverage shared information across connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and smart infrastructures to address sensing occlusion and range limitation issues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zonglin Meng , Yun Zhang , Zhaoliang Zheng , Zhihao Zhao , Jiaqi Ma

Web agents struggle to adapt to new websites due to the scarcity of environment specific tasks and demonstrations. Recent works have explored synthetic data generation to address this challenge, however, they suffer from data quality issues…

Compared with the widely investigated homogeneous multi-robot collaboration, heterogeneous robots with different capabilities can provide a more efficient and flexible collaboration for more complex tasks. In this paper, we consider a more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinzhu Liu , Peiyan Li , Wenju Yang , Di Guo , Huaping Liu

AI agents are increasingly used to solve complex, multi-step tasks, but existing multi-agent frameworks remain brittle as workflows grow in scale and depth. Small errors at intermediate stages can propagate through agent interactions, while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Andy Xu , Yu-Wing Tai