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Privacy is an important concern in various multiagent systems in which data collected from the agents are sensitive. We propose a differentially private controller synthesis approach for multi-agent systems subject to high-level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Zhe Xu , Kasra Yazdani , Matthew T. Hale , Ufuk Topcu

This paper addresses the problem of privacy-preserving consensus control for multi-agent systems (MAS) using differential privacy. We propose a novel distributed finite-horizon linear quadratic regulator (LQR) framework, in which agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yuwen Ma , Yongqiang Wang , Sarah K. Spurgeon , Boli Chen

This paper investigates the consensus problem of general linear multi-agent systems under the framework of optimization. A novel distributed receding horizon control (RHC) strategy for consensus is proposed. We show that the consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Huiping Li , Weisheng Yan

We consider the synthesis problem of a multi-agent system under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications representing bounded-time tasks that need to be satisfied recurrently over an infinite horizon. Motivated by the limited approaches…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We study the problem of control synthesis for multi-agent systems, to achieve complex, high-level, long-term goals that are assigned to each agent individually. As the agents might not be capable of satisfying their respective goals by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We develop a privacy-preserving distributed projection least mean squares (LMS) strategy over linear multitask networks, where agents' local parameters of interest or tasks are linearly related. Each agent is interested in not only…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chengcheng Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Ye Wei , Yuan Wang

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

We consider multi-agent systems interacting over directed network topologies where a subset of agents is adversary/faulty and where the non-faulty agents have the goal of reaching consensus, while fulfilling a differential privacy…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Davide Fiore , Giovanni Russo

This paper addresses the control synthesis of heterogeneous stochastic linear multi-agent systems with real-time allocation of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Based on previous work, we decompose specifications into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Maico H. W. Engelaar , Zengjie Zhang , Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Mircea Lazar , Sofie Haesaert

We introduce a technique for synthesis of control and communication strategies for a team of agents from a global task specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Yushan Chen , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta

Distributed algorithms for both discrete-time and continuous-time linearly solvable optimal control (LSOC) problems of networked multi-agent systems (MASs) are investigated in this paper. A distributed framework is proposed to partition the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Neng Wan , Aditya Gahlawat , Naira Hovakimyan , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Petros G. Voulgaris

It is desirable but challenging to fulfill system constraints and reach optimal performance in consensus protocol design for practical multi-agent systems (MASs). This paper investigates the optimal consensus problem for general linear MASs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Huiping Li , Weisheng Yan , Yang Shi , Fuqiang Liu

This paper presents a framework for automatic synthesis of a control sequence for multi-agent systems governed by continuous linear dynamics under timed constraints. First, the motion of the agents in the workspace is abstracted into…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Sofie Andersson , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper proposes novel approaches to design hierarchical decentralized robust controllers for homogeneous linear multi-agent systems (MASs) perturbed by disturbances/noise. Firstly, based on LQR method, we present a systematic procedure…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Dinh Hoa Nguyen , Tatsuo Narikiyo , Michihiro Kawanishi , Shinji Hara

Accurately learning from user data while ensuring quantifiable privacy guarantees provides an opportunity to build better Machine Learning (ML) models while maintaining user trust. Recent literature has demonstrated the applicability of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Abhinav Aggarwal , Zekun Xu , Nathanael Teissier

As multi-agent systems proliferate and share more user data, new approaches are needed to protect sensitive data while still enabling system operation. To address this need, this paper presents a private multi-agent LQ control framework.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Kasra Yazdani , Austin Jones , Kevin Leahy , Matthew Hale

Communication lays the foundation for cooperation in human society and in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Humans also desire to maintain their privacy when communicating with others, yet such privacy concern has not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Canzhe Zhao , Yanjie Ze , Jing Dong , Baoxiang Wang , Shuai Li

In a Multi-Agent System (MAS), individual agents observe various aspects of the environment and transmit this information to a central entity responsible for aggregating the data and deducing system parameters. To improve overall…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Puspanjali Ghoshal , Ashok Singh Sairam

This paper investigates the distributed consensus tracking control problem for general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with external disturbances and heterogeneous time-varying input and communication delays under a directed communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Wei Jiang , Kun Liu , Themistoklis Charalambous

This paper investigates the differentially private consensus problem for general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) based on output feedback protocols. To protect the output information, which is considered private data and may be at high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiaofeng Zong , Ming-Yu Wang , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang
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