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Molecular communication (MC) is a kind of communication technology based on biochemical molecules for internet of bio-nano things, in which the biochemical molecule is used as the information carrier for the interconnection of nano-devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Jiaxing Wang , Bonan Yin , Mugen Peng

This paper is concerned with the design of a distributed cooperative synchronization controller for a class of higher-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The objective is to achieve synchronization and satisfy a predefined time-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

Recently, Molecular Communication (MC) has been recognized as an enabling technology for nanonetworks where MC is envisioned to enable nanorobots to achieve sophisticated and complex tasks in the human body for promising medical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 AbdulAziz Al-Helali , Ben Liang , Nidal Nasser

The ultra large multi-agent systems are becoming increasingly popular due to quick decay of the individual production costs and the potential of speeding up the solving of complex problems. Examples include nano-robots, or systems of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Manuela L. Bujorianu , Marius C. Bujorianu

In this paper, from the structural perspective, we propose a new stability analysis approach for the consensus of linear multi-agent systems. Different from the general tools: the Laplacian matrix based method and the Lyapunov's method,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Wang Yong , Li Guiming

This paper presents a novel distributed robust optimization scheme for steering distributions of multi-agent systems under stochastic and deterministic uncertainty. Robust optimization is a subfield of optimization which aims to discover an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Inspired by Nature, molecular communications (MC), i.e., use of molecules to encode, transmit and receive information, stands as the most promising communication paradigm to realize nanonetworks. Even though there has been extensive…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Murat Kuscu , Ergin Dinc , Bilgesu A. Bilgin , Hamideh Ramezani , Ozgur B. Akan

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

Collaborative object transportation using multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with limited communication is a challenging problem. In this paper we address the problem of multiple MAVs mechanically coupled to a bulky object for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Andrea Tagliabue , Mina Kamel , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

An important aspect in jointly analysing networked control systems and their communication is to model the networking in a sufficiently rich but at the same time mathematically tractable way. As such, this paper improves on a recently…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Christian Hespe , Herbert Werner

An efficient communication mechanism forms the backbone for any multi-robot system to achieve fruitful collaboration and coordination. Limitation in the existing asynchronous transmission based strategies in fast dissemination and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Sourabha Bharadwaj , Karunakar Gonabattula , Sudipta Saha , Chayan Sarkar , Rekha Raja

We present a novel mathematical framework for the specification and analysis of fault-resilient distributed protocols and their implementations, with the following components: 1. Transition systems that allow the specification and analysis…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ehud Shapiro

Cooperative collision avoidance between robots, or `agents,' in swarm operations remains an open challenge. Assuming a decentralized architecture, each agent is responsible for making its own decisions and choosing its control actions. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Georg Schildbach

Molecular communication (MC) is a model of information transmission where the signal is transmitted by information-carrying molecules through their physical transport from a transmitter to a receiver through a communication channel. Prior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Phanindra Dewan , Sumantra Sarkar

Molecular Communication (MC) leverages the power of diffusion to transmit molecules from a transmitter to a receiver. A wide variety of modulation techniques based on molecule concentration, type, and release time have been extensively…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Boran A. Kilic , Ozgur B. Akan

This paper presents a distributed scalable multi-robot planning algorithm for informed sampling of quasistatic spatial fields. We address the problem of efficient data collection using multiple autonomous vehicles and consider the effects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sandeep Manjanna , M. Ani Hsieh , Gregory Dudek

With much advancement in the field of nanotechnology, bioengineering and synthetic biology over the past decade, microscales and nanoscales devices are becoming a reality. Yet the problem of engineering a reliable communication system…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nariman Farsad , H. Birkan Yilmaz , Andrew Eckford , Chan-Byoung Chae , Weisi Guo

This article presents a novel multi-agent spatial transformer (MAST) for learning communication policies in large-scale decentralized and collaborative multi-robot systems (DC-MRS). Challenges in collaboration in DC-MRS arise from: (i)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Damian Owerko , Frederic Vatnsdal , Saurav Agarwal , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

Self-stabilization is a versatile technique to withstand any transient fault in a distributed system. Mobile robots (or agents) are one of the emerging trends in distributed computing as they mimic autonomous biologic entities. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Lélia Blin , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become a prevalent paradigm for Large Language Model (LLM) applications. However, the complex multi-agent design in MAS introduces unique trustworthiness concerns: adversarial agents can inject misleading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chengcan Wu , Zhixin Zhang , Mingqian Xu , Zeming Wei , Meng Sun