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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

This paper presents a framework for multi-agent navigation in structured but dynamic environments, integrating three key components: a shared semantic map encoding metric and semantic environmental knowledge, a claim policy for coordinating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Koen de Vos , Elena Torta , Herman Bruyninckx , Cesar Lopez Martinez , Rene van de Molengraft

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

Motivated by the fact that intelligent traffic control systems have become inevitable demand to cope with the risk of traffic congestion in urban areas, this paper develops a distributed control strategy for urban traffic networks. Since…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Viet Hoang Pham , Kazunori Sakurama , Shaoshuai Mou , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Aiming to promote the wide adoption of safety filters for autonomous aerial robots, this paper presents a safe control architecture designed for seamless integration into widely used open-source autopilots. Departing from methods that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nazar Misyats , Marvin Harms , Morten Nissov , Martin Jacquet , Kostas Alexis

Self-navigation in non-coordinating crowded environments is formidably challenging within multi-agent systems consisting of non-holonomic robots operating through local sensing. Our primary objective is the development of a novel, rapid,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Veejay Karthik J , Leena Vachhani

High-speed, low-latency obstacle avoidance that is insensitive to sensor noise is essential for enabling multiple decentralized robots to function reliably in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other distributed multi-agent collision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

We consider the problem of designing distributed collision-avoidance multi-agent control in large-scale environments with potentially moving obstacles, where a large number of agents are required to maintain safety using only local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Songyuan Zhang , Kunal Garg , Chuchu Fan

This paper addresses the design of an optimization-based cooperative path-following control law for multiple robotic vehicles that optimally balances the transient trade-off between coordination and path-following errors. To this end, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Andrea Alessandretti , A. Pedro Aguiar

This paper proposes a consensus controller for multi-agent systems that can guarantee the agents' safety. The controller, built with the idea of output prediction and the Newton-Raphson method, achieves consensus for a class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Kaicheng Niu , Chaouki Abdallah , Mohammad Hayajneh

We present a decentralized minimum-time trajectory optimization scheme based on learning model predictive control for multi-agent systems with nonlinear decoupled dynamics and coupled state constraints. By performing the same task…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Edward L. Zhu , Yvonne R. Stürz , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

It is always a challenging task for multi-agent systems to achieve efficient and robust coverage in uncertain environments. The absence of global positioning information on the uncertain environment introduces significant complexity to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Chao Zhai , Yanlin Li

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

The environment plays a critical role in multi-agent navigation by imposing spatial constraints, rules, and limitations that agents must navigate around. Traditional approaches treat the environment as fixed, without exploring its impact on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhan Gao , Gabriele Fadini , Stelian Coros , Amanda Prorok

In this paper, a multi-agent coordination problem with steady-state regulation constraints is investigated for a class of nonlinear systems. Unlike existing leader-following coordination formulations, the reference signal is not given by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi

This paper tackles the problem of safe and efficient area coverage using a multi-agent system operating in environments with obstacles. Applications such as environmental monitoring and search and rescue require robot swarms to cover large…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Sungjun Seo , Kooktae Lee

This work presents a decentralized motion planning framework for addressing the task of multi-robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning. A custom simulator was developed in order to experimentally investigate the navigation problem…

We consider safety-critical multi-agent systems with distributed control architectures and potentially varying network topologies. While learning-based distributed control enables scalability and high performance, a lack of formal safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Jonas Ohnemus , Alexandre Didier , Ahmed Aboudonia , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In this work, we propose a continuous-time distributed optimization algorithm with guaranteed zero coupling constraint violation and apply it to safe distributed control in the presence of multiple control barrier functions (CBF). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Xiao Tan , Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Motivated by the lack of systematic tools to obtain safe control laws for hybrid systems, we propose an optimization-based framework for learning certifiably safe control laws from data. In particular, we assume a setting in which the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Lars Lindemann , Haimin Hu , Alexander Robey , Hanwen Zhang , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Stephen Tu , Nikolai Matni