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This paper proposes a novel method for formation path following of multiple underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles. The method combines line-of-sight guidance with null-space-based behavioral control, allowing the vehicles to follow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Josef Matouš , Kristin Y. Pettersen , Claudio Paliotta

We introduce a method called MASCOT (Multi-Agent Shape Control with Optimal Transport) to compute optimal control solutions of agents with shape/formation/density constraints. For example, we might want to apply shape constraints on the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Alex Tong Lin , Stanley J. Osher

Formation control is essential for swarm robotics, enabling coordinated behavior in complex environments. In this paper, we introduce a novel formation control system for an indoor blimp swarm using a specialized leader-follower approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tianfu Wu , Jiaqi Fu , Wugang Meng , Sungjin Cho , Huanzhe Zhan , Fumin Zhang

Geometric pattern formation is crucial in many tasks involving large-scale multi-agent systems. Examples include mobile agents performing surveillance, swarm of drones or robots, or smart transportation systems. Currently, most control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Andrea Giusti , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Davide Fiore , Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

Formation control deals with the design of decentralized control laws that stabilize mobile, autonomous agents at prescribed distances from each other. We call any configuration of the agents a target configuration if it satisfies the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Başar

We present Multi-Agent gatekeeper, a framework that provides provable safety guarantees for leader-follower formation control in cluttered 3D environments. Existing methods face a trad-off: online planners and controllers lack formal safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Thomas Marshall Vielmetti , Devansh R Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

3D shape creation and modeling remains a challenging task especially for novice users. Many methods in the field of computer graphics have been proposed to automate the often repetitive and precise operations needed during the modeling of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Ibraheem Alhashim

Based on the practical scenario where collisions in formation control may lead to agent damage, this paper investigates the integrated problem of distance-based formation control and collision avoidance for multi-agent systems governed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jingyi Zhao , Yongxin Wu , Héctor García de Marina , Yuhu Wu , Yann Le Gorrec

Controllable painting generation plays a pivotal role in image stylization. Currently, the control way of style transfer is subject to exemplar-based reference or a random one-hot vector guidance. Few works focus on decoupling the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minxuan Lin , Yingying Deng , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Shape formation is a basic distributed problem for systems of computational mobile entities. Intensively studied for systems of autonomous mobile robots, it has recently been investigated in the realm of programmable matter. Namely, it has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta , Yukiko Yamauchi

This paper is concerned with a formation shaping problem for point agents in a two-dimensional space, where control avoids the possibility of reflection ambiguities. One solution for this type of problems was given first for three or four…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Toshiharu Sugie , Fei Tong , Brian D. O. Anderson , Zhiyong Sun

We propose a method to procedurally generate a familiar yet complex human artifact: the city. We are not trying to reproduce existing cities, but to generate artificial cities that are convincing and plausible by capturing developmental…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Thomas Lechner , Ben Watson , Uri Wilensky , Martin Felsen

This paper studies distributed formation control of multiple agents in the plane using bearing-only measurements. It is assumed that each agent only measures the local bearings of their neighbor agents. The target formation considered in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Shiyu Zhao , Feng Lin , Kemao Peng , Ben M. Chen , Tong H. Lee

This paper studies a novel encirclement guaranteed cooperative pursuit problem involving $N$ pursuers and a single evader in an unbounded two-dimensional game domain. Throughout the game, the pursuers are required to maintain encirclement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Chen Wang , Hua Chen , Jia Pan , Wei Zhang

Modeling crowds has many important applications in games and computer animation. Inspired by the emergent following effect in real-life crowd scenarios, in this work, we develop a method for implicitly grouping moving agents. We achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiao-Cheng Liao , Wei-Neng Chen , Xiang-Ling Chen , Yi Mei

Motivated by station-keeping applications in various unmanned settings, this paper introduces a steering control law for a pair of agents operating in the vicinity of a fixed beacon in a three-dimensional environment. This feedback law is a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Kevin S. Galloway , Biswadip Dey

We consider a pursuit-evasion scenario involving a group of pursuers and a single evader in a two-dimensional unbounded environment. The pursuers aim to capture the evader in finite time while ensuring the evader remains enclosed within the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Dinesh Patra , Prajakta Surve , Ashish R. Hota , Shaunak D. Bopardikar

In this work, we formulate the problem of team formation amidst conflicts. The goal is to assign individuals to tasks, with given capacities, taking into account individuals' task preferences and the conflicts between them. Using dependent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Iasonas Nikolaou , Evimaria Terzi

This paper presents decentralized algorithms for formation control of multiple robots in three dimensions. Specifically, we leverage the mathematical properties of cyclic pursuit along with results from contraction and partial contraction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sumeet Singh , Edward Schmerling , Marco Pavone

This manuscript considers the problem of ensuring stability and safety during formation control with distributed multi-agent systems in the presence of parametric uncertainty in the dynamics and limited communication. We propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Jose A. Solano-Castellanos , Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha Annaswamy
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