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In this paper, we review multi-agent collective behavior algorithms in the literature and classify them according to their underlying mathematical structure. For each mathematical technique, we identify the multi-agent coordination tasks it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Federico Rossi , Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay , Michael Wolf , Marco Pavone

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The problem of multi-robot target tracking asks for actively planning the joint motion of robots to track targets. In this paper, we focus on such target tracking problems in adversarial environments, where attacks or failures may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Lifeng Zhou , Vijay Kumar

This paper introduces a multirobot cooperation approach to solve the "pursuit evasion" problem for mobile robots that have omnidirectional vision sensors. The main characteristic of this approach is to implement a real cooperation between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Damien Pellier , Humbert Fiorino

Multi-robot collaboration for target tracking in adversarial environments poses significant challenges, including system failures, dynamic priority shifts, and other unpredictable factors. These challenges become even more pronounced when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Jiazhen Liu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

We propose a distributed joint localization and tracking algorithm using a message passing framework, for multiple-input multiple-output radars. We employ the mean field approach to derive an iterative algorithm. The obtained algorithm…

We consider the problem of tracking moving targets using mobile wireless sensors (of possibly different types). This is a joint estimation and control problem in which a tracking system must take into account both target and sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Jingwei Hu , Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

The hunter and gatherer approach copes with the problem of dynamic multi-robot task allocation, where tasks are unknowingly distributed over an environment. This approach employs two complementary teams of agents: one agile in exploring…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mehdi Dadvar , Saeed Moazami , Harley R. Myler , Hassan Zargarzadeh

It is of great challenge, though promising, to coordinate collective robots for hunting an evader in a decentralized manner purely in light of local observations. In this paper, this challenge is addressed by a novel hybrid cooperative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Zheng Zhang , Xiaohan Wang , Qingrui Zhang , Tianjiang Hu

Limited information availability represents a fundamental challenge for control of multi-agent systems, since an agent often lacks sensing capabilities to measure certain states of its own and can exchange data only with its neighbors. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Chuan Yan , Tao Yang , Huazhen Fang

We study multi-agent coverage algorithms for autonomous monitoring and patrol in urban environments. We consider scenarios in which a team of flying agents uses downward facing cameras (or similar sensors) to observe the environment outside…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shivang Patel , Senthil Hariharan , Pranav Dhulipala , Ming C Lin , Dinesh Manocha , Huan Xu , Michael Otte

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a problem of finding a sequence of movements for agents to reach their assigned location without collision. Centralized algorithms usually give optimal solutions, but have difficulties to scale without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Poom Pianpak , Tran Cao Son

We study the problem of reducing the amount of communication in decentralized target tracking. We focus on the scenario where a team of robots are allowed to move on the boundary of the environment. Their goal is to seek a formation so as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

This paper develops a glocal (global-local) attack detection framework to detect stealthy cyber-physical attacks, namely covert attack and zero-dynamics attack, against a class of multi-agent control systems seeking average consensus. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

The study of collaborative multi-agent bandits has attracted significant attention recently. In light of this, we initiate the study of a new collaborative setting, consisting of $N$ agents such that each agent is learning one of $M$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ronshee Chawla , Daniel Vial , Sanjay Shakkottai , R. Srikant

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) is the problem of computing feasible paths for a set of agents given individual start and goal states. Given the hardness of MAMP, most of the research related to multi-agent systems has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Irving Solis , Read Sandström , James Motes , Nancy M. Amato

With the real need of field exploration in large-scale and extreme outdoor environments, cooperative exploration tasks have garnered increasing attention. This paper presents a comprehensive review of multi-robot cooperative exploration…

Multi-agent coordination is prevalent in many real-world applications. However, such coordination is challenging due to its combinatorial nature. An important observation in this regard is that agents in the real world often only directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Timothy Verstraeten , Eugenio Bargiacchi , Pieter JK Libin , Jan Helsen , Diederik M Roijers , Ann Nowé

Time-varying coverage control addresses the challenge of coordinating multiple agents covering an environment where regions of interest change over time. This problem has broad applications, including the deployment of autonomous taxis and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Patrick Benito Eberhard , Johannes Köhler , Oliver Hüsser , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

We propose a solution of the multiple target tracking (MTT) problem based on sets of trajectories and the random finite set framework. A full Bayesian approach to MTT should characterise the distribution of the trajectories given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Lennart Svensson , Mark R. Morelande