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Multi-robot cooperative control has gained extensive research interest due to its wide applications in civil, security, and military domains. This paper proposes a cooperative control algorithm for multi-robot systems with general linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Yi Dong , Zhongguo Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zhengtao Ding , Xiaowei Huang

This paper focuses on an online version of the emerging distributed constrained aggregative optimization framework, which is particularly suited for applications arising in cooperative robotics. Agents in a network want to minimize the sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Guido Carnevale , Andrea Camisa , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We consider a class of multi-agent cooperative consensus optimization problems with local nonlinear convex constraints where only those agents connected by an edge can directly communicate, hence, the optimal consensus decision lies in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Nazanin Abolfazli , Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

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 studies a constrained optimization problem over networked systems with an undirected and connected communication topology. The algorithm proposed in this work utilizes singular perturbation, dynamic average consensus, and saddle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Phuong Huu Hoang , Hyo-Sung Ahn

In modern large-scale systems with sensor networks and IoT devices it is essential to collaboratively solve complex problems while utilizing network resources efficiently. In our paper we present three distributed optimization algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

This paper investigates the problem of consensus-based distributed control of linear time-invariant multi-channel systems subject to unknown inputs. A distributed observer-based control framework is proposed, within which observer nodes and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ganghui Cao , Xunyuan Yin

Distributed optimization consists of multiple computation nodes working together to minimize a common objective function through local computation iterations and network-constrained communication steps. In the context of robotics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Trevor Halsted , Ola Shorinwa , Javier Yu , Mac Schwager

Time distributed optimization is an implementation strategy that can significantly reduce the computational burden of model predictive control by exploiting its robustness to incomplete optimization. When using this strategy, optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Marco Nicotra , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This paper studies output feedback consensus protocol design problems for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs. We consider both leaderless and leader-follower consensus with a leader whose control input is nonzero and bounded.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Yuezu Lv , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Jie Chen

This paper investigates the fixed-time consensus problem for a class of multi-agent systems with simple dynamics. Unlike the traditional way to realize fixed-time convergence, a novel strategy using the property of periodic functions is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Yuquan Chen , Fumian Wang , Bing Wang

This paper considers an internal model based distributed control approach to the cooperative output regulation problem of heterogeneous linear time-invariant multiagent systems over fixed directed communication graph topologies. First, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Selahattin Burak Sarsilmaz , Tansel Yucelen

In this paper, we propose a novel solution for the distributed unconstrained optimization problem where the total cost is the summation of time-varying local cost functions of a group networked agents. The objective is to track the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Amir-Salar Esteki , Solmaz S. Kia

This paper proposes a multi-scale method to design a continuous-time distributed algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems by using multi-agents with Markov switched network dynamics and noisy inter-agent communications. Unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Wei Ni , Xiaoli Wang

This article introduces a decentralized robust optimization framework for safe multi-agent control under uncertainty. Although stochastic noise has been the primary form of modeling uncertainty in such systems, these formulations might fall…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper presents a decentralized control framework for distribution matching in multi-agent systems (MAS), where agents collectively achieve a prescribed terminal spatial distribution. The problem is formulated using optimal transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Kooktae Lee

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for second-order continuous-time multi-agent systems to solve the distributed optimization problem. The global objective function is a sum of private cost functions associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Lisha Yao , Tao Yang , Jemin George , Karl H. Johansson

A finite-time protocol for a multi-agent systems (MASs) can guarantee the convergence of every agent in a finite time interval in contrast to the asymptotic convergence, but the settling time depends on the initial condition and design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Gewei Zuo , Lijun Zhu , Yujuan Wang , Zhiyong Chen

We consider the global consensus problem for multi-agent systems with input saturation over digraphs. Under a mild connectivity condition that the underlying digraph has a directed spanning tree, we use Lyapunov methods to show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

This paper presents a distributed multi-layer ring barrier coverage algorithm. In order to achieve single-layer ring barrier coverage, a distributed single-layer ring barrier coverage algorithm that maximises the probability of monitoring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Pengyang Fan , Chao Zhai