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This paper considers the distributed leader-follower stress-matrix-based affine formation control problem of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems with static and dynamic leaders. In leader-follower multi-agent formation control, the aim…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Okechi Onuoha , Suleiman Kurawa , Zezhi Tang , Yi Dong

This paper presents a novel approach employing prescribed performance control to address the distributed fault-tolerant formation control problem in a heterogeneous UAV-UGV cooperative system under a directed interaction topology and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yongkang Zhang , Bin Jiang , Yajie Ma

Control barrier function (CBF)-based methods provide the minimum modification necessary to formally guarantee safety in the context of quadratic programming, and strict safety guarantee for safety critical systems. However, most CBF-related…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-27 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhirui Sun , Hongpeng Wang , Shuai Li , Jiankun Wang

This letter presents a nonlinear disturbance observer-parameterized control barrier function (DOp-CBF) designed for a robust safety control system under external disturbances. This framework emphasizes that the safety bounds are relevant to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Ziqi Yang , Lihua Xie

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

This paper addresses the formation maneuver control problem of leader-follower multi-agent systems with high-order integrator dynamics. A distributed output feedback formation maneuver controller is proposed to achieve desired maneuvers so…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Xu Fang , Lihua Xie

This paper investigates a distributed formation control problem for networked robots, with the global objective of achieving predefined time-varying formations in an environment with obstacles. A novel fixed-time behavioral approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Ning Zhou , Xiaodong Cheng , Yuanqing Xia , Yanjun Liu

This paper proposes a cascaded control framework for quadrotor trajectory tracking with formal safety guarantees. First, we design a controller consisting of an outer-loop position model predictive control (MPC) and an inner-loop nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Ming Gao , Zhanglin Shangguan , Shuo Liu , Liang Wu , Bo Yang , Wei Xiao

Ensuring safety in multi-agent systems is a significant challenge, particularly in settings where centralized coordination is impractical. In this work, we propose a novel risk-sensitive safety filter for discrete-time multi-agent systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Armin Lederer , Erfaun Noorani , Andreas Krause

Adaptive control has focused on online control of dynamic systems in the presence of parametric uncertainties, with solutions guaranteeing stability and control performance. Safety, a related property to stability, is becoming increasingly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Johannes Autenrieb , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

This paper addresses the problem of distributed control for leader-follower multi-agent systems under prescribed performance guarantees. Leader-follower is meant in the sense that a group of agents with external inputs are selected as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We present a framework for safety-critical optimal control of physical systems based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). The technology of control barrier functions (CBFs), encoding desired safety constraints, is used in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Nicolò Botteghi , Federico Califano , Mannes Poel , Christoph Brune

This paper proposes a fully decentralized model predictive control (MPC) framework with control barrier function (CBF) constraints for safety-critical trajectory planning in multi-robot legged systems. The incorporation of CBF constraints…

This paper addresses the challenge of integrating explicit hard constraints into the control barrier function (CBF) framework for ensuring safety in autonomous systems, including robots. We propose a novel data-driven method to derive CBFs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jaemin Lee , Jeeseop Kim , Aaron D. Ames

Safe operations of UAVs are of paramount importance for various mission-critical and safety-critical UAV applications. In context of airborne target tracking and following, UAVs need to track a flying target avoiding collision and also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Promit Panja , Jesse B. Hoagg , Sabur Baidya

Nowadays, the prevalence of sensor networks has enabled tracking of the states of dynamic objects for a wide spectrum of applications from autonomous driving to environmental monitoring and urban planning. However, tracking real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Rui Yu , Zhenyuan Yuan , Minghui Zhu , Zihan Zhou

Safety-critical motion planning in mixed traffic remains challenging for autonomous vehicles, especially when it involves interactions between the ego vehicle (EV) and surrounding vehicles (SVs). In dense traffic, the feasibility of a lane…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ying Shuai Quan , Paolo Falcone , Jonas Sjöberg

Control Barrier functions (CBFs) have attracted extensive attention for designing safe controllers for their deployment in real-world safety-critical systems. However, the perception of the surrounding environment is often subject to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Alaa Eddine Chriat , Chuangchuang Sun

Control barrier functions (CBFs) have been demonstrated as an effective method for safety-critical control of autonomous systems. Although CBFs are simple to deploy, their design remains challenging, motivating the development of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bojan Derajić , Sebastian Bernhard , Wolfgang Hönig

Ensuring safe exploration in high-dimensional systems with unknown dynamics remains a significant challenge. Existing safe reinforcement learning methods often provide safety guarantees only in expectation, which can still lead to safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rahul Narava , Siddharth Verma , Ojas Jain , Shashi Shekhar Jha , Mayank Shekhar Jha