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Self-navigation in non-coordinating crowded environments is formidably challenging within multi-agent systems consisting of non-holonomic robots operating through local sensing. Our primary objective is the development of a novel, rapid,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Veejay Karthik J , Leena Vachhani

The issues in air traffic control have so far been addressed with the intent to improve resource utilization and achieve an optimized solution with respect to fuel comsumption of aircrafts, efficient usage of the available airspace with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Sarvesh Nikumbh , Joeprakash Nathaman , Rahul Vartak

Coverage control algorithms have traditionally focused on static target densities, where agents are deployed to optimally cover a fixed spatial distribution. However, many applications involve time-varying densities, including environmental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Italo Napolitano , Mario di Bernardo

This paper presents a robust distributed coordination protocol that achieves generation of collision-free trajectories for multiple unicycle agents in the presence of stochastic uncertainties. We build upon our earlier work on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Kunal Garg , Dongkun Han , Dimitra Panagou

A probabilistic performance-oriented controller design approach based on polynomial chaos expansion and optimization is proposed for flight dynamic systems. Unlike robust control techniques where uncertainties are conservatively handled,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Dalong Shi , Xiang Fang , Florian Holzapfel

We propose a data-driven control method for systems with aleatoric uncertainty, for example, robot fleets with variations between agents. Our method leverages shared trajectory data to increase the robustness of the designed controller and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Alexander von Rohr , Dmitrii Likhachev , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper studies the problem of safe and optimal continuum deformation of a large-scale multi-agent system (MAS). We present a novel approach for MAS continuum deformation coordination that aims to achieve safe and efficient agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

Adaptive guaranteed-performance consensus control problems for multi-agent systems are investigated, where the adjustable convergence speed is discussed. This paper firstly proposes a novel adaptive guaranteed-performance consensus…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hai-Ying Ma , Xiao Jia , Ning Cai , Jian-Xiang Xi

In this paper, a multi-agent coordination problem with steady-state regulation constraints is investigated for a class of nonlinear systems. Unlike existing leader-following coordination formulations, the reference signal is not given by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi

We consider the problem of safe multi-agent motion planning for drones in uncertain, cluttered workspaces. For this problem, we present a tractable motion planner that builds upon the strengths of reinforcement learning and…

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for multiagent offline trajectory generation based on distributed model predictive control. Central to the algorithm's scalability and success is the development of an on-demand collision avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Carlos E. Luis , Angela P. Schoellig

We present Multi-Agent gatekeeper, a framework that provides provable safety guarantees for leader-follower formation control in cluttered 3D environments. Existing methods face a trad-off: online planners and controllers lack formal safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Thomas Marshall Vielmetti , Devansh R Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

This paper proposes a distributed model predicted control (DMPC) approach for consensus control of multi-agent systems (MASs) with linear agent dynamics and bounded control input constraints. Within the proposed DMPC framework, each agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Yougang Bian , Changkun Du , Manjiang Hu , Haikuo Liu

This paper presents a novel approach for achieving safe stochastic optimal control in networked multi-agent systems (MASs). The proposed method incorporates barrier states (BaSs) into the system dynamics to embed safety constraints. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Lin Song , Pan Zhao , Neng Wan , Naira Hovakimyan

Finite-time motion planning with collision avoidance is a challenging issue in multi-agent systems. This paper proposes a novel distributed controller based on a new Lyapunov barrier function which guarantees finite-time stability for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yilei Jiang , Dongkun Han

In this paper, we propose a novel safe, passive, and robust control law for mechanical systems. The proposed approach addresses safety from a physical human-robot interaction perspective, where a robot must not only stay inside a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Wenceslao Shaw Cortez , Christos Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We investigate methods to provide safety assurances for autonomous agents that incorporate predictions of other, uncontrolled agents' behavior into their own trajectory planning. Given a learning-based forecasting model that predicts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Anish Muthali , Haotian Shen , Sampada Deglurkar , Michael H. Lim , Rebecca Roelofs , Aleksandra Faust , Claire Tomlin

This paper considers a two-dimensional persistent monitoring problem by controlling movements of second-order agents to minimize some uncertainty metric associated with targets in a dynamic environment. In contrast to common sensing models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Yan-Wu Wang , Ming-Jie Zhao , Wu Yang , Nan Zhou , Christos G. Cassandras

This paper proposes a novel distributed coverage controller for a multi-agent system with constant-speed unicycle robots (CSUR). The work is motivated by the limitation of the conventional method that does not ensure the satisfaction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Qingchen Liu , Zengjie Zhang , Nhan Khanh Le , Jiahu Qin , Fangzhou Liu , Sandra Hirche