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This paper studies a consensus problem of multi-agent systems subjected to external disturbances over the clustered network. It considers that the agents are divided into several clusters. They are almost all the time isolated one from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Thiem V. Pham , Quynh T. T. Nguyen

In this paper, for any homogeneous system of agents with linear continuous time dynamics, we formulate an optimal control problem. In this problem a convex cost functional of the control signals of the agents shall be minimized, while the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Johan Thunberg , Xiaoming Hu

In this work we study a distributed optimal output consensus problem for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems where the agents aim to reach consensus with the purpose of minimizing the sum of private convex costs. Based on output…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Li Li , Yang Yu , Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie

Flexibility is increasingly gaining importance in modern power system operation. This paper presents a controller framework based on Online Feedback Optimization for real-time coordination of power system flexibility. The proposed approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Florian Klein-Helmkamp , Matthis Berger , Irina Zettl , Andreas Ulbig

In this paper, we present a novel method for synthesising an optimal distributed spatial regret controller using experimentally obtained frequency-response data. Spatial regret provides a measure of the performance gap between a structured…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Vaibhav Gupta , Daniele Martinelli , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Luca Furieri , Alireza Karimi

Most control systems run on digital hardware with limited communication resources. This work develops self-triggered control for linear systems where sensors update independently (asynchronous measurements). The controller computes an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Abbas Tariverdi

The consensus over multi-agent networks can be accelerated by introducing agent's memory to the control protocol. In this paper, a more general protocol with the node memory and the state deviation memory is designed. We aim to provide the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Jiahao Dai , Jing-Wen Yi , Li Chai

The distributed optimal output consensus problem for high-order multi-agent systems has been studied recently. In this paper, we further focus on the same problem for high-order multi-agent systems subject to parametric uncertainties and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yutao Tang , Kui Zhu

In this paper, an optimal consensus problem with local inequality constraints is studied for a network of single-integrator agents. The goal is that a group of single-integrator a gents rendezvous at the optimal point of the sum of local…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Amir Adibzadeh , Mohsen Zamani , Amir A. Suratgar , Mohammad B. Menhaj

The scheme of online optimization as a feedback controller is widely used to steer the states of a physical system to the optimal solution of a predefined optimization problem. Such methods focus on regulating the physical states to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ming Li , Zhaojian Wang , Feng Liu , Ming Cao , Bo Yang

We study the synthesis of optimal control policies for large-scale multi-agent systems. The optimal control design induces a parsimonious control intervention by means of l-1, sparsity-promoting control penalizations. We study instantaneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Giacomo Albi , Massimo Fornasier , Dante Kalise

We study distributed output feedback control for a heterogeneous multi-agent system (MAS), consisting of N different continuous-time linear dynamical systems. For achieving output consensus, a virtual reference model is assumed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Luis D. Alvergue , Abhishek Pandey , Guoxiang Gu , Xiang Chen

Network control refers to a very large and diverse set of problems including controllability of linear time-invariant dynamical systems, where the objective is to select an appropriate input to steer the network to a desired state. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Ambuj Tewari , George Michailidis

We consider decentralized optimization problems where one aims to minimize a sum of convex smooth objective functions distributed between nodes in the network. The links in the network can change from time to time. For the setting when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Dmitriy Metelev , Alexander Rogozin , Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper addresses the adaptive consensus problem in uncertain multi-agent systems, particularly under challenges posed by quantized communication. We consider agents with general linear dynamics subject to nonlinear uncertainties and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Woocheol Choi , Piljae Jang

We address the problem of sparsity-promoting optimal control of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in the presence of communication delays. The delays are categorized into two types - namely, an inter-layer delay for passing state and control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Nandini Negi , Aranya Chakrabortty

In networked control systems, communication resource constraints often necessitate the use of \emph{sparse} control input vectors. A prototypical problem is how to ensure controllability of a linear dynamical system when only a limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Krishna Praveen V. S. Kondapi , Chandrasekhar Sriram , Geethu Joseph , Chandra R. Murthy

In this paper, an optimal output consensus problem is studied for discrete-time linear multiagent systems subject to external disturbances. Each agent is assigned with a local cost function which is known only to itself. Distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Yutao Tang , Hao Zhu , Xiaoyong Lv

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of containment control of multi-agent systems with multiple stationary leaders, interacting over a directed network. While, containment control refers to just ensuring that the follower agents reach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Sushobhan Chatterjee , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani