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Fully decentralized, multiagent trajectory planners enable complex tasks like search and rescue or package delivery by ensuring safe navigation in unknown environments. However, deconflicting trajectories with other agents and ensuring…

In this work, we introduce a novel perspective, i.e., dimensional analysis, to address the challenge of communication efficiency in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Our findings reveal that simply optimizing the content and timing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chuxiong Sun , Peng He , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

High-speed, low-latency obstacle avoidance that is insensitive to sensor noise is essential for enabling multiple decentralized robots to function reliably in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other distributed multi-agent collision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

Compared with individual agents, large language model based multi-agent systems have shown great capabilities consistently across diverse tasks, including code generation, mathematical reasoning, and planning, etc. Despite their impressive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhen Zhang , Wanjing Zhou , Juncheng Li , Hao Fei , Jun Wen , Wei Ji

This paper identifies a property of delay-robustness in distributed supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES) with communication delays. In previous work a distributed supervisory control problem has been investigated on the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Renyuan Zhang , Kai Cai , Yongmei Gan , W. M. Wonham

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

Safe operation of multi-robot systems is critical, especially in communication-degraded environments such as underwater for seabed mapping, underground caves for navigation, and in extraterrestrial missions for assembly and construction. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Luca Ballotta , Rajat Talak

This paper studies delayed synchronization of continuous-time multi-agent systems (MAS) in the presence of unknown nonuniform communication delays. A delay-free transformation is developed based on a communication network which is a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zhenwei Liu , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel , Rong Li

We propose a distributed planning method with asynchronous execution for multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problems for environments with occasional delays in agents' activities and flexible endpoints. MAPD is a crucial problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuki Miyashita , Tomoki Yamauchi , Toshiharu Sugawara

This paper is concerned with the consensus problem for multi-agent systems subject to communication delays between the neighboring agents. We consider a scenario where each agent is characterized by a general high-order linear system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Multi-vehicle trajectory planning is a non-convex problem that becomes increasingly difficult in dense environments due to the rapid growth of collision constraints. Efficient exploration of feasible behaviors and resolution of tight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Heye Huang , Yibin Yang , Wang Chen , Tiantian Chen , Xiaopeng Li , Sikai Chen

Current research on robust trajectory planning for autonomous agents aims to mitigate uncertainties arising from disturbances and modeling errors while ensuring guaranteed safety. Existing methods primarily utilize stochastic optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Christian Vitale , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

This paper studies the consensus problem of general linear discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS) with input constraints and bounded time-varying communication delays. We propose a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Henglai Wei , Changxin Liu , Yang Shi

This paper investigates the output synchronization problem for discrete-time heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to distinct communication delays. The presence of such delays prevents the instantaneous delivery of information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Qin Fang , Mamadou Diagne , Yang Zhu

Realizing delay-capacity in intermittently connected mobile networks remains a largely open question, with state-of-the-art routing schemes typically focusing either on delay or on capacity. We show the feasibility of routing with both high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Dhrubojyoti Roy , Mukundan Sridharan , Satyajeet Deshpande , Anish Arora

Efficient path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is crucial in remote sensing and information collection. As task scales expand, the cooperative deployment of multiple UAVs significantly improves information collection…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zilin Zhao , Chishui Chen , Haotian Shi , Jiale Chen , Xuanlin Yue , Zhejian Yang , Yang Liu

This work studies the problem of distributed optimization in heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. Instead of relying on a perfect communication network as in many existing distributed optimization approaches, we considered two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Farshad Rahimi

Mobile robots, be it autonomous or teleoperated, require stable communication with the base station to exchange valuable information. Given the stochastic elements in radio signal propagation, such as shadowing and fading, and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sergio Caccamo , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Luigi Freda , Mario Gianni , Petter Ögren

Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to push the boundaries of LLM capabilities, yet they often incur significant costs and face challenges in dynamic LLM selection. Current LLM routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yanwei Yue , Guibin Zhang , Boyang Liu , Guancheng Wan , Kun Wang , Dawei Cheng , Yiyan Qi

In this paper, we study the cooperative robust output regulation problem for linear uncertain multi-agent systems with both communication delay and input delay by the distributed internal model approach. The problem includes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Maobin Lu , Jie Huang