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This paper investigated the distributed leader follower formation control problem for multiple differentially driven mobile robots. A distributed estimator is first introduced and it only requires the state information from each follower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zhe Xu , Tao Yan , Simon X. Yang , S. Andrew Gadsden

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

This paper studies the problem of controlling a multi-robot system to achieve a polygon formation in a self-organized manner. Different from the typical formation control strategies where robots are steered to satisfy the predefined control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Qingkai Yang , Fan Xiao , Jingshuo Lyu , Bo Zhou , Hao Fang

Multi-vehicle coordinated decision making and control can improve traffic efficiency while guaranteeing driving safety. Formation control is a typical multi-vehicle coordination method in the multi-lane scenario. Among the existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Mengchi Cai , Qing Xu , Chaoyi Chen , Jiawei Wang , Keqiang Li , Jianqiang Wang , Qianying Zhu

This paper presents a novel decentralized approach for achieving emergent behavior in multi-agent systems with minimal information sharing. Based on prior work in simple orbits, our method produces a broad class of stable, periodic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dimitria Silveria , Kleber Cabral , Peter Jardine , Sidney Givigi

Recent advances in multi-agent systems manipulation have demonstrated a rising demand for the implementation of multi-UAV systems in urban areas which are always subjected to the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. The focus of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Sharif , Yaser Banad

In this paper, we study a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game problem in which a single leader and multiple followers are involved. We consider more practical formulation for partial information that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yichun Li , Yaozhong Hu , Jingtao Shi , Yueyang Zheng

Recent advances in multi-agent systems manipulation have demonstrated a rising demand for the implementation of multi-UAV systems in urban areas, which are always subjected to the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. Inspired by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Safura Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

This paper addresses the problem of decentralized abstractions for multiple mobile manipulators with 2nd order dynamics. In particular, we propose decentralized controllers for the navigation of each agent among predefined regions of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We introduce a modeling framework for manipulation planning based on the formulation of the dynamics as a projected dynamical system. This method uses implicit signed distance functions and their gradients to formulate an equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Anton Pozharskiy , Armin Nurkanović , Moritz Diehl

This paper develops a general framework for multi-agent control synthesis, which applies to a wide range of problems with convergence guarantees, including those with time-varying objective functions. The proposed framework achieves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Ruoyu Lin , Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper studies the time-varying bearing-based tracking of leader-follower formations. The desired constraints between agents are specified by bearing vectors, and several leaders are moving with a bounded reference velocity. Each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Dung Van Vu , Minh Hoang Trinh

A PDE-based control concept is developed to deploy a multi-agent system into desired formation profiles. The dynamic model is based on a coupled linear, time-variant parabolic distributed parameter system. By means of a particular coupling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Gerhard Freudenthaler , Thomas Meurer

This paper addresses the problem of collective circular motion control for unicycle agents, with the objective of achieving phase coordination of their velocity vectors while ensuring that their trajectories remain confined within a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Shubham Singh , Anoop Jain

Multi-robot formation control enables robots to cooperate as a working group in completing complex tasks, which has been widely used in both civilian and military scenarios. Before moving to reach a given formation, each robot should choose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Currently, the general aim of flocking and formation control laws for multi-agent systems is to form and maintain a rigid configuration, such as, the alpha-lattices in flocking control methods, where the desired distance between each pair…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Tinghua Li , Bayu Jayawardhana

This work considers the distance constrained formation control problem with an additional constraint requiring that the formation exhibits a specified spatial symmetry. We employ recent results from the theory of symmetry-forced rigidity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Daniel Zelazo , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Bernd Schulze

Continuum deformation is a leader-follower multiagent cooperative control approach. Previous work showed a desired continuum deformation can be uniquely defined based on trajectories of d +1 leaders in a d-dimensional motion space and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Hossein Rastgoftar , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin , Ella Atkins

A generic data-assisted control architecture within the port-Hamiltonian framework is proposed, introducing a physically meaningful observable that links conservative dynamics to all actuation, dissipation, and disturbance channels. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Mostafa Eslami , Maryam Babazadeh

In this paper, formation control for reduced attitude is studied, in which both stationary and rotating regular tetrahedron formation can be achieved and are asymptotically stable under a large family of gain functions in the control.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Silun Zhang , Wenjun Song , Fenghua He , Yiguang Hong , Xiaoming Hu