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A system of coupled oscillators on an arbitrary graph is locally driven by the tendency to mutual synchronization between nearby oscillators, but can and often exhibit nonlinear behavior on the whole graph. Understanding such nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Agam Goyal , Zhaoxing Wu , Richard P. Yim , Binhao Chen , Zihong Xu , Hanbaek Lyu

Nature is a blossoming of regular structures, signature of self-organization of the underlying microscopic interacting agents. Turing theory of pattern formation is one of the most studied mechanisms to address such phenomena and has been…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Lorenzo Giambagli , Hiroya Nakao , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

In this paper, controllability of undirected networked systems with {diffusively coupled subsystems} is considered, where each subsystem is of {identically {\emph{fixed}}} general high-order single-input-multi-output dynamics. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Yuan Zhang , Yuanqing Xia , Han Gao , Guangchen Zhang

The distributed coordination problem of multi-agent systems is addressed in this paper under the assumption of intermittent communication between agents in the presence of time-varying communication delays. Specifically, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Abdelkader Abdessameud , Ilia G. Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Reduction of a two-component FitzHugh-Nagumo model to a single-component model with long-range connection is considered on general networks. The reduced model describes a single chemical species reacting on the nodes and diffusing across…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-02-19 Timoteo Carletti , Hiroya Nakao

We develop a linear systems theory that coincides with the existing theories for continuous and discrete dynamical systems, but that also extends to linear systems defined on nonuniform time domains. The approach here is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-03 John M. Davis , Ian A. Gravagne , Billy J. Jackson , Robert J. Marks

Dynamical processes on networks are currently being considered in different domains of cross-disciplinary interest. Reaction-diffusion systems hosted on directed graphs are in particular relevant for their widespread applications, from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 Silvia Contemori , Francesca Di Patti , Duccio Fanelli , Filippo Miele

This paper studies the distributed control and estimation of multi-agent systems based on bearing information. In particular, we consider two problems: (i) the distributed control of bearing-constrained formations using relative position…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Shiyu Zhao , Daniel Zelazo

In this two-part paper, we identify a broad class of decentralized output-feedback LQG systems for which the optimal control strategies have a simple intuitive estimation structure and can be computed efficiently. Roughly, we consider the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-13 Ashutosh Nayyar , Laurent Lessard

This work presents an innovative learning-based approach to tackle the tracking control problem of Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems with partially unknown dynamics operating under switching communication topologies. The approach leverages…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zewen Yang , Songbo Dong , Armin Lederer , Xiaobing Dai , Siyu Chen , Stefan Sosnowski , Georges Hattab , Sandra Hirche

In this paper, the controllability and observability of linear multi-agent systems over matrix-weighted signed networks are analyzed. Firstly, the definition of equitable partition of matrix-weighted signed multi-agent system is given, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Lanhao Zhao , Zhijian Ji , Yungang Liu , Chong Lin

Turing patterns formed by activator-inhibitor systems on networks are considered. The linear stability analysis shows that the Turing instability generally occurs when the inhibitor diffuses sufficiently faster than the activator. Numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-29 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

Turing patterns, arising from the interplay between competing species of diffusive particles, has long been an important concept for describing non-equilibrium self-organization in nature, and has been extensively investigated in many…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-26 Jasper van der Kolk , Guillermo García-Pérez , Nikos E. Kouvaris , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

Turing instability in activator-inhibitor systems provides a paradigm of nonequilibrium pattern formation; it has been extensively investigated for biological and chemical processes. Turing pattern formation should furthermore be possible…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-05-13 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

In this paper, structural controllability of a leader-follower multi-agent system with multiple leaders is studied from a graph-theoretic point of view. The problem of preservation of structural controllability under simultaneous failures…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-01 M. Amin Rahimian , Amir G. Aghdam

Turing theory of pattern formation is among the most popular theoretical means to account for the variety of spatio-temporal structures observed in Nature and, for this reason, finds applications in many different fields. While Turing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Luca Gallo , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca , Timoteo Carletti

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

This brief proposes a distributed formation control strategy via matrix-weighted Laplacian that can achieve a similar formation in 2-D planar using inter-agent relative displacement measurement. Formation patterns that include translation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Zhipeng Fan , Yujie Xu , Mingyu Fu , Han Sun , Weiqiu Zhang , Heng Zhang

In this note, the coordination of linear discrete-time multi-agent systems over digital networks is investigated with unmeasurable states in agents' dynamics. The quantized-observer based communication protocols and Certainty Equivalence…

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