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In this paper, we consider a control synthesis problem for a class of polynomial dynamical systems subject to bounded disturbances and with input constraints. More precisely, we aim at synthesizing at the same time a controller and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi , Antoine Girard

Steady-state synthesis aims to construct a policy for a given MDP $D$ such that the long-run average frequencies of visits to the vertices of $D$ satisfy given numerical constraints. This problem is solvable in polynomial time, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Martin Jonáš , Antonín Kučera , Vojtěch Kůr , Jan Mačák

We introduce a novel distributed sampled-data control method tailored for heterogeneous multi-agent systems under a global spatio-temporal task with acyclic dependencies. Specifically, we consider the global task as a conjunction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Gregorio Marchesini , Siyuan Liu , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-agent systems for resource allocation (MRAs) have been introduced as a concept for modelling competitive resource allocation problems in distributed computing. An MRA is composed of a set of agents and a set of resources. Each agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nils Timm , Josua Botha

Training a team to complete a complex task via multi-agent reinforcement learning can be difficult due to challenges such as policy search in a large joint policy space, and non-stationarity caused by mutually adapting agents. To facilitate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Elliot Fosong , Arrasy Rahman , Ignacio Carlucho , Stefano V. Albrecht

This paper proposes a distributed controller synthesis framework for safe navigation of multi-agent systems. We leverage control barrier functions to formulate collision avoidance with obstacles and teammates as constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Pol Mestres , Carlos Nieto-Granda , Jorge Cortés

Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized partially observable multi-agent path planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zuxin Liu , Baiming Chen , Hongyi Zhou , Guru Koushik , Martial Hebert , Ding Zhao

The aim of this work is to define a planner that enables robust legged locomotion for complex multi-agent systems consisting of several holonomically constrained quadrupeds. To this end, we employ a methodology based on behavioral systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Randall T Fawcett , Leila Amanzadeh , Jeeseop Kim , Aaron D Ames , Kaveh Akbari Hamed

Crisis management is a complex problem raised by the scientific community currently. Decision support systems are a suitable solution for such issues, they are indeed able to help emergency managers to prevent and to manage crisis in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Fahem Kebair , Frédéric Serin

This paper presents a secure-by-construction planning and control framework for multi-agent systems subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. The framework protects sensitive information from a passive intruder with partial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Georgios Mitsos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Siyuan Liu

Distributed control algorithms are known to reduce overall computation time compared to centralized control algorithms. However, they can result in inconsistent solutions leading to the violation of safety-critical constraints. Inconsistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Julius Beerwerth , Maximilian Kloock , Bassam Alrifaee

Neural networks (NNs) have been shown to learn complex control laws successfully, often with performance advantages or decreased computational cost compared to alternative methods. Neural network controllers (NNCs) are, however, highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Oliver Gates , Matthew Newton , Konstantinos Gatsis

One of the main challenges in multi-agent reinforcement learning is scalability as the number of agents increases. This issue is further exacerbated if the problem considered is temporally dependent. State-of-the-art solutions today mainly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Albin Larsson Forsberg , Alexandros Nikou , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan , Jana Tumova

In this paper, we propose a method to control large-scale multiagent systems swarming in a ring. Specifically, we use a continuification-based approach that transforms the microscopic, agent-level description of the system dynamics into a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Alain Boldini , Mario di Bernardo , Maurizio Porfiri

Cooperative problems under continuous control have always been the focus of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Existing algorithms suffer from the problem of uneven learning degree with the increase of the number of agents. In this paper,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Kai Liu , Yuyang Zhao , Gang Wang , Bei Peng

In this paper the problem of cooperative task planning of multi-agent systems when timed constraints are imposed to the system is investigated. We consider timed constraints given by Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL). We propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Alexandros Nikou , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper presents a fully automated procedure for controller synthesis for multi-agent systems under the presence of uncertainties. We model the motion of each of the $N$ agents in the environment as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Alexandros Nikou , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems often rely on a controller to coordinate a pool of heterogeneous models, yet existing controllers are typically limited to one-shot routing: they select a model once and return its output…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Liangqi Yuan , Guangchen Lan , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Deep Q-learning has achieved significant success in single-agent decision making tasks. However, it is challenging to extend Q-learning to large-scale multi-agent scenarios, due to the explosion of action space resulting from the complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Ming Zhou , Yong Chen , Ying Wen , Yaodong Yang , Yufeng Su , Weinan Zhang , Dell Zhang , Jun Wang

Recent vision-language models have strong perceptual ability but their implicit reasoning is hard to explain and easily generates hallucinations on complex queries. Compositional methods improve interpretability, but most rely on a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhixi Cai , Fucai Ke , Kevin Leo , Sukai Huang , Maria Garcia de la Banda , Peter J. Stuckey , Hamid Rezatofighi