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This paper studies the problem of distributed state estimation of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems under event-triggered communication. For event-triggering mechanisms, the existence of positive minimum inter-event times (MIETs) is an…
Event-triggered control (ETC) holds the potential to significantly improve the efficiency of wireless networked control systems. Unfortunately, its real-world impact has hitherto been hampered by the lack of a network stack able to transfer…
This thesis is concerned with distributed control and coordination of networks consisting of multiple, potentially mobile, agents. This is motivated mainly by the emergence of large scale networks characterized by the lack of centralized…
This paper addresses the output synchronization problem for heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with distributed event-based controllers. Employing the two-step synchronization process, we first outline the distributed…
We consider a scenario where multiple event-based systems use a wireless network to communicate with their respective controllers. These systems use a contention resolution mechanism (CRM) to arbitrate access to the network. We present a…
A graph theoretic framework recently has been proposed to stabilize interconnected multiagent systems in a distributed fashion, while systematically capturing the architectural aspect of cyber-physical systems with separate agent or…
The paper considers event-triggered leader-follower tracking control for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics. For both undirected and directed follower graphs, we propose event triggering rules which guarantee bounded tracking…
In this paper, we present a solution to a design problem of control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Although existing learning-based methods assume that the number of agents is the same as that in the training environment,…
In the context of event-triggered control, the timing of the triggering events carries information about the state of the system that can be used for stabilization. At each triggering event, not only can information be transmitted by the…
This paper considers the problem of hub-based platoon coordination for a large-scale transport system, where trucks have individual utility functions to optimize. An event-triggered distributed model predictive control method is proposed to…
With the increasing ubiquity of networked control systems, various strategies for sampling constituent subsystems' outputs have emerged. In contrast with periodic sampling, event-triggered control provides a way to efficiently sample a…
In this paper, we propose an integral based event-triggering controller for bipartite consensus of the multi-agent systems whose dynamics are described by general linear system. We prove that the system achieves the bipartite consensus in…
This article aims to improve the performance of networked multi-agent systems, which are common representations of cyber-physical systems. The rate of convergence to consensus of multi-agent networks is critical to ensure cohesive, rapid…
In this paper, we study the robustness of the event-triggered consensus algorithms against frequency-domain uncertainties. It is revealed that the sampling errors resulted by event triggering are essentially images of linear finite-gain…
This paper investigates the communication strategy for second-order multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics. To save the scarce resources of communication channels, a novel event-triggered communication mechanism is designed without…
We present an approach to reduce the communication of information needed on a Distributed Q-Learning system inspired by Event Triggered Control (ETC) techniques. We consider a baseline scenario of a distributed Q-learning problem on a…
We present a data-based approach to design event-triggered state-feedback controllers for unknown continuous-time linear systems affected by disturbances. By an event, we mean state measurements transmission from the sensors to the…
We consider a standard discrete-time event-triggered control setting by which a scheduler collocated with the plant's sensors decides when to transmit sensor data to a remote controller collocated with the plant's actuators. When the…
Event-triggered control provides a mechanism for avoiding excessive use of constrained communication bandwidth in networked multi-agent systems. However, most existing methods rely on accurate system models, which may be unavailable in…
In future autonomous systems, wireless multi-hop communication is key to enable collaboration among distributed agents at low cost and high flexibility. When many agents need to transmit information over the same wireless network,…