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Multi-agent coordination under partial observability requires agents to share complementary private information. While recent methods optimize messages for intermediate objectives (e.g., reconstruction accuracy or mutual information),…

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Distributed learning and adaptation have received significant interest and found wide-ranging applications in machine learning and signal processing. While various approaches, such as shared-memory optimization, multi-task learning, and…

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A variety of problems in distributed control involve a networked system of autonomous agents cooperating to carry out some complex task in a decentralized fashion, e.g., orienting a flock of drones, or aggregating data from a network of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

In this article, we develop a decentralized resource allocation mechanism for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems based on deep reinforcement learning. Each V2V link is considered as an agent, making its own decisions to find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Hao Ye , Geoffrey Ye Li

One effective way to optimize the offloading process is by minimizing the transmission time. This is particularly true in a Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET) where vehicles frequently download and upload High-definition (HD) map data which…

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This work examines adaptive distributed learning strategies designed to operate under communication constraints. We consider a network of agents that must solve an online optimization problem from continual observation of streaming data.…

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In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed transmission control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in unlicensed spectrum bands. We develop a rigorous interference-aware queuing analysis framework that jointly…

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In this paper we propose a novel distributed model predictive control (DMPC) based algorithm with a trajectory predictor for a scenario of landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a moving unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The algorithm…

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Cooperative control of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) promises smoother traffic flow. In mixed traffic, where human-driven vehicles with unknown dynamics coexist, data-driven predictive control techniques allow for CAV safe and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Jiawei Wang , Yingzhao Lian , Yuning Jiang , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li , Colin N. Jones

Deploying service robots in our daily life, whether in restaurants, warehouses or hospitals, calls for the need to reason on the interactions happening in dense and dynamic scenes. In this paper, we present and benchmark three new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sariah Mghames , Luca Castri , Marc Hanheide , Nicola Bellotto

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) aim to advance innovative strategies relating to different modes of transport, traffic management, and autonomous vehicles. This paper studies the platoon of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

Consider the problem of a multiple access channel in a time dependent environment with a large number of users. In such a system, mostly due to practical constraints (e.g., decoding complexity), not all users can be scheduled together, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

The significance of the freshness of sensor and control data at the receiver side, often referred to as Age of Information (AoI), is fundamentally constrained by contention for limited network resources. Evidently, network congestion is…

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Collaborative decision making in multi-agent systems typically requires a predefined communication protocol among agents. Usually, agent-level observations are locally processed and information is exchanged using the predefined protocol,…

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In the early days of connected vehicles (CVs), data will be collected only from a limited number of CVs (i.e., low CV penetration rate) and not from other vehicles (i.e., non-connected vehicles). Moreover, the data loss rate in the wireless…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Mizanur Rahman , Mashrur Chowdhury , Anjan Rayamajhi , Kakan Dey , James Martin

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

We consider flocking of self-propelling agents in two dimensions, each of which communicates with its neighbors within a limited vision cone. Also, the communication occurs with some delay. The communication among the agents are modeled by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-13 Mihir Durve , Arnab Saha , Ahmed Sayeed

In large-scale Internet of things networks, efficient medium access control (MAC) is critical due to the growing number of devices competing for limited communication resources. In this work, we consider a new challenge in which a set of…

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Latency is inherent in almost all real-world networked applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed allocation strategy over multi-agent networks with delayed communications. The state of each agent (or node) represents its share…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) rely on wireless communication to exchange state information for distributed control, making communication delays a critical factor that can affect vehicle motion and degrade control performance,…

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