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In cooperative multi-agent robotic systems, coordination is necessary in order to complete a given task. Important examples include search and rescue, operations in hazardous environments, and environmental monitoring. Coordination, in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Carron , Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a prominent paradigm for leveraging large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks. However, the mechanisms governing the effectiveness of MAS built upon publicly available LLMs, specifically…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuxuan Zhao , Sijia Chen , Ningxin Su

Addressing complex cooperative tasks in safety-critical environments poses significant challenges for multi-agent systems, especially under conditions of partial observability. We focus on a dynamic network bridging task, where agents must…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Raffaele Galliera , Konstantinos Mitsopoulos , Niranjan Suri , Raffaele Romagnoli

Recent years have witnessed the great success of multi-agent systems (MAS). Value decomposition, which decomposes joint action values into individual action values, has been an important work in MAS. However, many value decomposition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Yunpeng Bai , Chen Gong , Bin Zhang , Guoliang Fan , Xinwen Hou , Yu Liu

This paper considers the distributed robust control problems of uncertain linear multi-agent systems with undirected communication topologies. It is assumed that the agents have identical nominal dynamics while subject to different…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Lihua Xie , Xiangdong Liu

Hierarchical multi-agent systems (HMAS) organize collections of agents into layered structures that help manage complexity and scale. These hierarchies can simplify coordination, but they also can introduce trade-offs that are not always…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-19 David J. Moore

In this paper, the optimal consensus problem for general nonlinear multi-agent systems is studied, where both leaderless and leader-follower cases are considered in a unified framework. The key idea is to convert consensus problems into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ziyuan Guo , Chuanzhi lv , Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper addresses the distributed prescribed-time leader-following consensus problem for a class of high-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with perturbed nonlinear agents dynamics and where the topology of the network contains a directed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 J. Armando Colunga , Héctor M. Becerra , Carlos R. Vázquez , David Gómez-Gutiérrez

We propose a distributed control algorithm for a multi-agent network whose agents deploy over a cluttered region in accordance with a time-varying coverage density function while avoiding collisions with all obstacles they encounter. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Alaa Z. Abdulghafoor , Efstathios Bakolas

This paper addresses the challenge of navigating unmanned aerial vehicles in contested environments by introducing a cooperative multi-agent framework that increases the likelihood of safe UAV traversal. The approach involves two types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson

The embedding of self-organizing inter-agent processes in distributed software applications enables the decentralized coordination system elements, solely based on concerted, localized interactions. The separation and encapsulation of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Jan Sudeikat , Wolfgang Renz

Many cooperative multi-agent problems require agents to learn individual tasks while contributing to the collective success of the group. This is a challenging task for current state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement algorithms that are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Hassam Ullah Sheikh , Ladislau Bölöni

The distributed optimal synchronization problem with linear quadratic cost is solved in this paper for multi-agent systems with an undirected communication topology. For the first time, the optimal synchronization problem is formulated as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Qishao Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Jingyao Wang , Guanrong Chen

We study the multi-agent safe control problem where agents should avoid collisions to static obstacles and collisions with each other while reaching their goals. Our core idea is to learn the multi-agent control policy jointly with learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zengyi Qin , Kaiqing Zhang , Yuxiao Chen , Jingkai Chen , Chuchu Fan

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied successfully to solve various real-world problems and the number of its applications in the multi-agent settings has been increasing. Multi-agent learning distinctly poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

We study the deployment of a first-order multi-agent system over a desired smooth curve in 3D space. We assume that the agents have access to the local information of the desired curve and their displacements with respect to their closest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Jieqiang Wei , Emilia Fridman , Anton Selivanov , Karl H. Johansson

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly accelerating the development of autonomous multi-agent systems (MAS), paving the way for the Internet of Agents. However, traditional centralized MAS architectures present significant…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yepeng Ding , Ahmed Twabi , Junwei Yu , Lingfeng Zhang , Tohru Kondo , Hiroyuki Sato

This work considers multiple agents traversing a network from a source node to the goal node. The cost to an agent for traveling a link has a private as well as a congestion component. The agent's objective is to find a path to the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Prashant Trivedi , Nandyala Hemachandra

This paper develops a stochastic programming framework for multi-agent systems where task decomposition, assignment, and scheduling problems are simultaneously optimized. The framework can be applied to heterogeneous mobile robot teams with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bo Fu , William Smith , Denise Rizzo , Matthew Castanier , Maani Ghaffari , Kira Barton

Large Language Models (LLMs)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) exhibit remarkable problem-solving and task planning capabilities across diverse domains due to their specialized agentic roles and collaborative interactions. However, this also…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yifan Zhu , Chao Zhang , Xin Shi , Xueqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Yawei Luo