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This article aims to improve the performance of networked multi-agent systems, which are common representations of cyber-physical systems. The rate of convergence to consensus of multi-agent networks is critical to ensure cohesive, rapid…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Santosh Devasia

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL)-based backstepping control strategy to achieve fixed time consensus in nonlinear multi-agent systems with strict feedback dynamics. Agents exchange only output information with their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Aria Delshad , Maryam Babazadeh

We study resilient leader-follower consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of adversarial agents, where agents' communication is modeled by time-varying topologies. The objective is to develop distributed algorithms for the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

In this paper, we present a solution to a design problem of control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Although existing learning-based methods assume that the number of agents is the same as that in the training environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Takamitsu Matsubara

In this paper, a class of convex feasibility problems (CFPs) are studied for multi-agent systems through local interactions. The objective is to search a feasible solution to the convex inequalities with some set constraints in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

This paper introduces a novel approach of clustering, which is based on group consensus of dynamic linear high-order multi-agent systems. The graph topology is associated with a selected multi-agent system, with each agent corresponding to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Ning Cai , Chen Diao , M. Junaid Khan

Time-varying hierarchical multi-agent systems are common in many applications. A well-known solution to control these systems is to use state feedback controllers that depend on the adjacency matrix to reach consensus. This solution has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Victor Daniel Reyes Dreke , Mircea Lazar

This paper studies the consensus problem of general linear discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS) with input constraints and bounded time-varying communication delays. We propose a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Henglai Wei , Changxin Liu , Yang Shi

In this paper, we address the distributed average consensus problem over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where the stability of the network is disrupted by frequent agent arrivals and departures, leading to a…

Spreading and storing erasure-coded data in distributed systems effectively is challenging in real settings. Practical deployments must contend with unpredictable network latencies, particularly when information dispersal is integrated into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Rithwik Kerur , Divyakant Agrawal , Michael K. Reiter , Dahlia Malkhi

Software defined networking (SDN) promises unprecedented flexibility and ease of network operations. While flexibility is an important factor when leveraging advantages of a new technology, critical infrastructure networks also have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Ermin Sakic , Wolfgang Kellerer

Distributed consensus has been intensively studied in recent years as a means to mitigate state differences among dynamic nodes on a graph. It has been successfully employed in various applications, e.g., formation control of multi-robots,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yinyan Zhang , Shuai Li

This work introduces a distributed formation control strategy for multi-agent systems based solely on rotation symmetry constraints. We propose a potential function that enforces inter-agent \textbf{rotational} symmetries, whose gradient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Zamir Martinez , Daniel Zelazo

In this paper, multi-agent systems minimizing a sum of objective functions, where each component is only known to a particular node, is considered for continuous-time dynamics with time-varying interconnection topologies. Assuming that each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson , Yiguang Hong

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

A generalized family of Adversary Robust Consensus protocols is proposed and analyzed. These are distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems seeking to agree on a common value of a shared variable, even in the presence of faulty or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 David Angeli , Sabato Manfredi

This article provides an introduction to event-triggered coordination for multi-agent average consensus. We provide a comprehensive account of the motivations behind the use of event-triggered strategies for consensus, the methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Cameron Nowzari , Eloy Garcia , Jorge Cortes

In the typical multiagent formation tracking problem centered on consensus, the prevailing assumption in the literature is that the agents' nonlinear models can be approximated by integrator systems, by their feedback-linearized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Clinton Enwerem , John S. Baras

This paper investigates the consensus problem of general linear multi-agent systems under the framework of optimization. A novel distributed receding horizon control (RHC) strategy for consensus is proposed. We show that the consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Huiping Li , Weisheng Yan

In this paper, the formation control of multi-agent systems in random switching communication topology is studied, and the problem of excessive bandwidth and low control efficiency among multi-agents is solved. For nonlinear multi-agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Ouyang Lingcong , Yang Kaijun