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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Jose Bento , Nate Derbinsky , Javier Alonso-Mora , Jonathan Yedidia

In this paper we consider the problem of navigation and motion control in an area densely populated with other agents. We propose an algorithm that, without explicit communication and based on the information it has, computes the best…

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This paper addresses the coverage control problem of multi-agent systems in the uncertain environment. With the aid of Voronoi partition, a distributed coverage control formulation of multi-agent system is proposed to complete the workload…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Yinan Zheng , Chao Zhai

This paper addresses the problem of position- and orientation-based formation control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in a $3$D workspace with obstacles. More specifically, we design a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Christos K. Verginis , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Distributed control algorithms are known to reduce overall computation time compared to centralized control algorithms. However, they can result in inconsistent solutions leading to the violation of safety-critical constraints. Inconsistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Julius Beerwerth , Maximilian Kloock , Bassam Alrifaee

In this work, we propose a continuous-time distributed optimization algorithm with guaranteed zero coupling constraint violation and apply it to safe distributed control in the presence of multiple control barrier functions (CBF). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Xiao Tan , Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The distributed optimal synchronization problem with linear quadratic cost is solved in this paper for multi-agent systems with an undirected communication topology. For the first time, the optimal synchronization problem is formulated as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Qishao Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Jingyao Wang , Guanrong Chen

This letter studies a distributed collision avoidance control problem for a group of rigid bodies on a sphere. A rigid body network, consisting of multiple rigid bodies constrained to a spherical surface and an interconnection topology, is…

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In this paper, we develop a systematic method for constructing a generalized discrete-time control Lyapunov function for the flexible-step Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme, recently introduced in [2], when restricted to the class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Annika Fürnsinn , Christian Ebenbauer , Bahman Gharesifard

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

This work proposes a coverage controller that enables an aerial team of distributed autonomous agents to collaboratively generate non-myopic coverage plans over a rolling finite horizon, aiming to cover specific points on the surface area…

The paper focuses on designing a controller for unknown dynamical multi-agent systems to achieve temporal reach-avoid-stay tasks for each agent while preventing inter-agent collisions. The main objective is to generate a spatiotemporal tube…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ahan Basu , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

In this paper, a new yet indirect performance guaranteed framework is established to address the distributed tracking control problem for networked uncertain nonlinear strict-feedback systems with unknown time-varying gains under a directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Zeqiang Li , Yujuan Wang , Xiucai Huang

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we present Lyapunov-based {\color{black}time varying} controllers for {\color{black}fast} stabilization of a perturbed chain of integrators with bounded uncertainties. We refer to such controllers as {\color{black}time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Salah Laghrouche , Mohamed Harmouche , Yacine Chitour , Hussein Obeid , Leonid Fridman

This paper presents a control strategy based on a new notion of time-varying fixed-time convergent control barrier functions (TFCBFs) for a class of coupled multi-agent systems under signal temporal logic (STL) tasks. In this framework,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Maryam Sharifi , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We study the problem of controlling multi-agent systems under a set of signal temporal logic tasks. Signal temporal logic is a formalism that is used to express time and space constraints for dynamical systems. Recent methods to solve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This article proposes a novel control architecture using a centralized nonlinear model predictive control (CNMPC) scheme for controlling multiple micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The control architecture uses an augmented state system to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Björn Lindqvist , Sina Sharif Mansouri , Pantelis Sopasakis , George Nikolakopoulos

We propose a SCHMM LMPC framework, integrating Semi Continuous Hidden Markov Models with Lyapunov based Model Predictive Control, for distributed optimal control of multi agent systems under network imperfections. The SCHMM captures the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Loaie Solyman , Aamir Ahmad , Ayman El-Badawy

Existing methods for safe multi-agent control using logic specifications like Signal Temporal Logic (STL) often face scalability issues. This is because they rely either on single-agent perspectives or on Mixed Integer Linear Programming…

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