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State estimation for a class of linear time-invariant systems with distributed output measurements (distributed sensors) and unknown inputs is addressed in this paper. The objective is to design a network of observers such that the state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Guitao Yang , Angelo Barboni , Hamed Rezaee , Thomas Parisini

In this paper, we investigate the distributed state estimation problem for a continuous-time linear multi-agent system (MAS) composed of $\mathit{m}$ agents and monitored by the agents themselves. To address this problem, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Shuaiting Huang , Haodong Jiang , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Wu

In this paper, both the fixed-time distributed consensus tracking and the fixed-time distributed average tracking problems for double-integrator-type multi-agent systems with bounded input disturbances are studied, respectively. Firstly, a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Qiang Chen , Yu Zhao , Guanghui Wen , Guoqing Shi , Xinghuo Yu

In this paper, we address the problem of distributed state estimation for a discrete-time, linear time-invariant system. Building on the framework proposed in [2], we exploit the Jordan canonical form of the system matrix to develop a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Giulio Fattore , Maria Elena Valcher , Rui Gao , Guang-Hong Yang

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

An optimal control law for networked control systems with a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system as plant and networks between sensor and controller as well as between controller and actuator is proposed. This controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Marijan Palmisano , Martin Steinberger , Martin Horn

We consider a multi-agent system where each agent has its own estimate of a given quantity and the goal is to reach consensus on the average. To this purpose, we propose a distributed consensus algorithm that guarantees convergence to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Alessandro Falsone , Kostas Margellos , Simone Garatti , Maria Prandini

The robust distributed state estimation for a class of continuous-time linear time-invariant systems is achieved by a novel kernel-based distributed observer, which, for the first time, ensures fixed-time convergence properties. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Pudong Ge , Peng Li , Boli Chen , Fei Teng

This paper proposes a novel distributed interval-valued simultaneous state and input observer for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems that are subject to attacks or unknown inputs injected both on their sensors and actuators. Each agent in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Mohammad Khajenejad , Scott Brown , Sonia Martinez

We study the problem of designing a distributed observer for an LTI system over a time-varying communication graph. The limited existing work on this topic imposes various restrictions either on the observation model or on the sequence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Saurabh Bagchi , Shreyas Sundaram

Online optimization has recently opened avenues to study optimal control for time-varying cost functions that are unknown in advance. Inspired by this line of research, we study the distributed online linear quadratic regulator (LQR)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

This note investigates the distributed estimation problem for continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems observed by a network of observers. Each observer in the network has access to only part of the output of the observed system,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Weixin Han , Harry L. Trentelman , Zhenhua Wang , Yi Shen

This paper presents distributed algorithmic solutions that employ opportunistic inter-agent communication to achieve dynamic average consensus. In our solutions each agent is endowed with a local criterion that enables it to determine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

A variety of problems in distributed control involve a networked system of autonomous agents cooperating to carry out some complex task in a decentralized fashion, e.g., orienting a flock of drones, or aggregating data from a network of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Patrick Lambein-Monette

The paper considers the problem of distributed adaptive linear parameter estimation in multi-agent inference networks. Local sensing model information is only partially available at the agents and inter-agent communication is assumed to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura , H. Vincent Poor

This paper addresses the problem of distributed detection in multi-agent networks. Agents receive private signals about an unknown state of the world. The underlying state is globally identifiable, yet informative signals may be dispersed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Shahin Shahrampour , Alexander Rakhlin , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper investigates the distributed consensus tracking control problem for general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with external disturbances and heterogeneous time-varying input and communication delays under a directed communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Wei Jiang , Kun Liu , Themistoklis Charalambous

Distributed averaging of agent initial conditions is a well-studied problem in context of networked systems where coordination amongst the agents is of paramount importance. The asymptotic nature of convergence of distributed averaging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Mangal Prakash , Saurav Talukdar , Sandeep Attree , Sourav Patel , Murti V. Salapaka

This paper introduces a novel distributed consensus-based observer design that enables a group of agents in an undirected communication network to solve the problem of target tracking, where the target is modelled as a chain of integrators…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Marcelo Jacinto , Pedro Trindade , Francisco Rego , Rita Cunha

For an autonomous linear time-invariant (LTI) system, a distributed observer with time-triggered periodic observations and event-triggered communication is proposed to estimate the state of the system. It is shown that the sampling period…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Shimin Wang , Zhan Shu , Tongwen Chen