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In this paper, we present a solution to the problem of coordinating multiple robots across a communication channel that experiences delays. The proposed approach leverages control barrier functions in order to ensure that the multi-robot…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Gennaro Notomista , Xiaoyi Cai , Junya Yamauchi , Magnus Egerstedt

A flexible operation of multiple robotic manipulators in a shared workspace requires an online trajectory planning with static and dynamic collision avoidance. In this work, we propose a real-time capable motion control algorithm, based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nigora Gafur , Gajanan Kanagalingam , Martin Ruskowski

This paper presents a reinforcement learning-based neuroadaptive control framework for robotic manipulators operating under deferred constraints. The proposed approach improves traditional barrier Lyapunov functions by introducing a smooth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hamed Rahimi Nohooji , Abolfazl Zaraki , Holger Voos

Oscillations between swing modes of electric machines is an important limitation in achieving a high level of transient performance and reliability in power grids. Based on the new advances in measurement and transmission of wide-area…

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This letter investigates the motion control problem of two mobile robots under allowable collisions. Here, the allowable collisions mean that the collisions do not damage the mobile robots. The occurrence of the collisions is discussed and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Li Tan , Wei Ren , Xi-Ming Sun , Junlin Xiong

Many technical solutions are bio-inspired. Octopus-inspired robotic arms belong to continuum robots which are used in minimally invasive surgery or for technical system restoration in areas difficult-toaccess. Continuum robot missions are…

This technical note is concerned with boundary stabilization of multi-dimensional discrete-velocity kinetic models. By exploiting a certain stability structure of the models and adapting an appropriate Lyapunov functional, we derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Haitian Yang , Wen-An Yong

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative formation control for multi-agent systems with limited resources. We consider a team of robots tasked with achieving a desired formation from an arbitrary initial configuration. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Evangelos Psomiadis , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Robotic manipulation can greatly benefit from the data efficiency, robustness, and predictability of model-based methods if robots can quickly generate models of novel objects they encounter. This is especially difficult when effects like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Bibit Bianchini , Mathew Halm , Michael Posa

In this paper, we present a solution to a design problem of control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Although existing learning-based methods assume that the number of agents is the same as that in the training environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Takamitsu Matsubara

Mobile manipulators typically encounter significant challenges in navigating narrow, cluttered environments due to their high-dimensional state spaces and complex kinematics. While reactive methods excel in dynamic settings, they struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chunxin Zheng , Yulin Li , Zhiyuan Song , Zhihai Bi , Jinni Zhou , Boyu Zhou , Jun Ma

This paper develops a novel COllaborative-Online-Learning (COOL)-enabled motion control framework for multi-robot systems to avoid collision amid randomly moving obstacles whose motion distributions are partially observable through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Chao Ning , Han Wang , Longyan Li , Yang Shi

This paper investigates the synthesis of distributed economic control algorithms under which dynamically coupled physical systems are regulated to a variational equilibrium of a constrained convex game. We study two complementary cases: (i)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Yang Lu , Minghui Zhu

A novel dynamic model-based trajectory tracking control law is proposed for a four-wheel differentially driven mobile robot using a backstepping technique that guarantees the Lyapunov stability. The present work improves the work of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Jae-Yun Jun , Minh-Duc Hua , Faïz Benamar

This paper addresses the problem of cooperative manipulation of a single object by N robotic agents under local goal specifications given as Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) formulas. In particular, we propose a distributed model-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper analyzes consensus in multi-agent systems under uniform and nonuniform communication delays, a key challenge in distributed coordination with applications to robotic swarms. It investigates the convergence of a consensus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Shokoufeh Naderi , Maude Blondin , Sébastien Roy

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

Robotic surface consisting of many actuators can change shape to perform tasks, such as facilitating human-machine interactions and transporting objects. Increasing the number of actuators can enhance the robot's capacity, but controlling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yuchen Zhao

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

Communication remains a key factor limiting the applicability of distributed model predictive control (DMPC) in realistic settings, despite advances in wireless communication. DMPC schemes can require an overwhelming amount of information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Torben Schiz , Henrik Ebel