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This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Chain-of-thought prompting has popularized step-by-step reasoning in large language models, yet model performance still degrades as problem complexity and context length grow. By decomposing difficult tasks with long contexts into shorter,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Michael Rizvi-Martel , Satwik Bhattamishra , Neil Rathi , Guillaume Rabusseau , Michael Hahn

The safe control of multi-robot swarms is a challenging and active field of research, where common goals include maintaining group cohesion while simultaneously avoiding obstacles and inter-agent collision. Building off our previously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Brooks A. Butler , Chi Ho Leung , Philip E. Paré

Synaptic communication is a natural Molecular Communication (MC) system which may serve as a blueprint for the design of synthetic MC systems. In particular, it features highly specialized mechanisms to enable inter-symbol interference…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sebastian Lotter , Maximilian Schäfer , Johannes Zeitler , Robert Schober

In this second part of our survey on experimental research in Synthetic Molecular Communication (SMC), we review works on long-range SMC systems, i.e., systems with communication ranges of more than a few millimeters. Despite the importance…

In this paper we consider the problem of controlling the dynamic behavior of a multi-robot system while interacting with the environment. In particular, we propose a general methodology that, by means of locally scaling inter-robot coupling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Lorenzo Sabattini , Cristian Secchi , Cesare Fantuzzi

Diffusion-based molecular communication over nanonetworks is an emerging communication paradigm that enables nanomachines to communicate by using molecules as the information carrier. For such a communication paradigm, Concentration Shift…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Subodh Pudasaini , Seokjoo Shin , Kyung Sup Kwak

Hybrid multiscale modelling has emerged as a useful framework for modelling complex biological phenomena. However, when accounting for stochasticity in the internal dynamics of agents, these models frequently become computationally…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-11 Daria Stepanova , Helen M. Byrne , Philip K. Maini , Tomás Alarcón

Multi-robot systems can greatly enhance efficiency through coordination and collaboration, yet in practice, full-time communication is rarely available and interactions are constrained to close-range exchanges. Existing methods either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xintong Zhang , Junfeng Chen , Yuxiao Zhu , Bing Luo , Meng Guo

Data transmission rate in molecular communication systems can be improved by using multiple transmitters and receivers. In molecular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems which use only single type of molecules, the performance at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Nithin V. Sabu , Neeraj Varshney , Abhishek K. Gupta

This paper develops a dynamic agent-based model for rural-urban migration, based on the previous relevant works. The model conforms to the typical dynamic linear multi-agent systems model concerned extensively in systems science, in which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Ning Cai , Hai-Ying Ma , M. Junaid Khan

Fault tolerance is increasingly important for unmanned autonomous vehicles. For example, in a multi robot system the agents need the ability to effectively detect and tolerate internal failures in order to continue performing their tasks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-02 S. Bereg , L. E. Caraballo , J. M. Díaz-Báñez , M. A. Lopez

Decentralized control in multi-robot systems is dependent on accurate and reliable communication between agents. Important communication factors, such as latency and packet delivery ratio, are strong functions of the number of agents in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Mark Selden , Jason Zhou , Felipe Campos , Nathan Lambert , Daniel Drew , Kristofer S. J. Pister

Effective multi-robot teams require the ability to move to goals in complex environments in order to address real-world applications such as search and rescue. Multi-robot teams should be able to operate in a completely decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Brian Reily , Terran Mott , Hao Zhang

This correspondence studies the downlink transmission in a multi-cell system, where multiple base stations (BSs) each with multiple antennas cooperatively design their respective transmit beamforming vectors to optimize the overall system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we consider the problem of providing robustness to adversarial communication in multi-agent systems. Specifically, we propose a solution towards robust cooperation, which enables the multi-agent system to maintain high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Rupert Mitchell , Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

Maze-like environments, such as cave and pipe networks, pose unique challenges for multiple robots to coordinate, including communication constraints and congestion. To address these challenges, we propose a distributed multi-agent maze…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jahir Argote-Gerald , Genki Miyauchi , Julian Rau , Paul Trodden , Roderich Gross

Spherical multi-layered structures are prevalent in numerous biological systems and engineered applications, including tumor spheroids, layered tissues, and multi-shell nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. Despite their widespread…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mitra Rezaei , Michael Chappell , Adam Noel

This paper introduces a new approach that leverages Multi-agent Bayesian Optimization (MABO) to design Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) schemes for multi-agent systems. The primary objective is to learn optimal DMPC schemes even…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Hossein Nejatbakhsh Esfahani , Kai Liu , Javad Mohammadpour Velni

Model-based multi-agent control requires agents to possess a model of the behavior of others to make strategic decisions. Solution concepts from game theory are often used to model the emergent collective behavior of self-interested agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ada Yildirim , Bryce L. Ferguson