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The application of distributed model predictive controllers (DMPC) for multi-agent systems (MASs) necessitates communication between agents, yet the consequence of communication data rates is typically overlooked. This work focuses on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Yujia Yang , Ye Wang , Chris Manzie , Ye Pu

Multi-agent planning under stochastic dynamics is usually formalised using decentralized (partially observable) Markov decision processes ( MDPs) and reachability or expected reward specifications. In this paper, we propose a different…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Francesco Pontiggia , Filip Macák , Roman Andriushchenko , Michele Chiari , Milan Češka

We propose a novel data-driven stochastic model predictive control framework for uncertain linear systems with noisy output measurements. Our approach leverages multi-step predictors to efficiently propagate uncertainty, ensuring chance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Haldun Balim , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Johannes Köhler

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

We present a multilevel stochastic gradient descent method for the optimal control of systems governed by partial differential equations under uncertain input data. The gradient descent method used to find the optimal control leverages a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Niklas Baumgarten , David Schneiderhan

In this paper the optimal control of alignment models composed by a large number of agents is investigated in presence of a selective action of a controller, acting in order to enhance consensus. Two types of selective controls have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Giacomo Albi , Lorenzo Pareschi

This article presents a distributed model-predictive control (MPC) design for real-time voltage control in power systems, including an online method to estimate the bus admittance matrix $\mathbf{Y}$ to let it be time-varying and unknown a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Ramij R. Hossain , Ratnesh Kumar

Designing motion control and planning algorithms for multilift systems remains challenging due to the complexities of dynamics, collision avoidance, actuator limits, and scalability. Existing methods that use optimization and distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bingheng Wang , Rui Huang , Lin Zhao

Collaborative transportation of heavy payloads via loco-manipulation is a challenging yet essential capability for legged robots operating in complex, unstructured environments. Centralized planning methods, e.g., holistic trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ziyi Zhou , Pengyuan Shu , Ruize Cao , Yuntian Zhao , Ye Zhao

Motion planning for autonomous robots in dynamic environments poses numerous challenges due to uncertainties in the robot's dynamics and interaction with other agents. Sampling-based MPC approaches, such as Model Predictive Path Integral…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Elia Trevisan , Javier Alonso-Mora

In this paper, a distributed optimal steady-state regulation problem is formulated and investigated for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems subject to external disturbances. We aim to steer this high-order multi-agent network to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yutao Tang

A novel distributed algorithm is proposed for finite-time converging to a feasible consensus solution satisfying global optimality to a certain accuracy of the distributed robust convex optimization problem (DRCO) subject to bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Xunhao Wu , Jun Fu

Despite the success of Gaussian process based Model Predictive Control (MPC) in robotic control, its applicability scope is greatly hindered by multimodal disturbances that are prevalent in real-world settings. Here we propose a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Jingyi Wu , Chao Ning

Model-based policy optimization often struggles with inaccurate system dynamics models, leading to suboptimal closed-loop performance. This challenge is especially evident in Model Predictive Control (MPC) policies, which rely on the model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

This paper presents a distributed data-driven predictive control (DDPC) approach using the behavioral framework. It aims to design a network of controllers for an interconnected system with linear time-invariant (LTI) subsystems such that a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Yitao Yan , Jie Bao , Biao Huang

This paper investigates the collision-free control problem for multi-agent systems. For such multi-agent systems, it is the typical situation where conventional methods using either the usual centralized model predictive control (MPC), or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Wenxin Wang , Zicheng Zhu , Clarence W. de Silva , Tong Heng Lee

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

We establish a collection of closed-loop guarantees and propose a scalable optimization algorithm for distributionally robust model predictive control (DRMPC) applied to linear systems, convex constraints, and quadratic costs. Via standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Robert D. McAllister , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

This paper studies a class of multiagent stochastic optimization problems where the objective is to minimize the expected value of a function which depends on a random variable. The probability distribution of the random variable is unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Ashish Cherukuri , Jorge Cortes

This article extends the optimal covariance steering (CS) problem for discrete time linear stochastic systems modeled using moment-based ambiguity sets. To hedge against the uncertainty in the state distributions while performing covariance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Venkatraman Renganathan , Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras