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This paper presents a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm for a heterogeneous platoon using arbitrary communication topologies, provided each vehicle can communicate with a preceding vehicle in the platoon. The proposed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Michael H. Shaham , Taskin Padir

We propose a distributed control algorithm for a multi-agent network whose agents deploy over a cluttered region in accordance with a time-varying coverage density function while avoiding collisions with all obstacles they encounter. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Alaa Z. Abdulghafoor , Efstathios Bakolas

This paper mainly investigates consensus problem with pull-based event-triggered feedback control. For each agent, the diffusion coupling feedbacks are based on the states of its in-neighbors at its latest triggering time and the next…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Xinlei Yi , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

We propose a distributed event-triggered control law to solve the consensus problem for multi-agent systems with nonlinear output. Under the condition that the underlying digraph is strongly connected, we propose some sufficient conditions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Junfeng Wu , Karl H. Johansson

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

This paper presents the formulation of fault detection and accommodation schemes for a network of autonomous agents running internal model-based dynamic average consensus algorithms. We focus on two types of consensus algorithms, one that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Jemin George , Matthew L. Elwin , Randy A. Freeman , Kevin M. Lynch

The emergence of large-scale multi-agent systems has led to controller synthesis methods for sparse communication between agents. However, most sparse controller synthesis algorithms remain centralized, requiring information exchange and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Ingyu Jang , Ethan J. LoCicero , Leila Bridgeman

We present a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm to generate trajectories in real-time for multiple robots. We adopted the \textit{on-demand collision avoidance} method presented in previous work to efficiently compute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Carlos E. Luis , Marijan Vukosavljev , Angela P. Schoellig

This paper proposes Distributed Model Predictive Covariance Steering (DiMPCS) for multi-agent control under stochastic uncertainty. The scope of our approach is to blend covariance steering theory, distributed optimization and model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper addresses the problem of formation control and tracking a of desired trajectory by an Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems. It is inspired by recent results by Qingkai et al. and adopts an event-triggered control strategy to reduce…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christophe Viel , Sylvain Bertrand , Michel Kieffer , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

Model predictive control strategies require to solve in an sequential manner, many, possibly non-convex, optimization problems. In this work, we propose an interacting stochastic agent system to solve those problems. The agents evolve in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Giacomo Borghi , Michael Herty

In this article we propose a distributed collision avoidance scheme for multi-agent unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) based on nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC),where other agents in the system are considered as dynamic obstacles with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Björn Lindqvist , Pantelis Sopasakis , George Nikolakopoulos

This paper studies optimal consensus tracking problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems. By introducing tracking error dynamics, the optimal tracking problem is reformulated as finding a Nash-equilibrium solution of a multi-player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Jilie Zhang , Zhanshan Wang , Hongwei Zhang

In this paper, we deal with distributed estimation problems in diffusion networks with heterogeneous nodes, i.e., nodes that either implement different adaptive rules or differ in some other aspect such as the filter structure or length, or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Jesus Fernandez-Bes , Jerónimo Arenas-García , Magno T. M. Silva , Luis A. Azpicueta-Ruiz

In this paper we treat optimal trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle (AV) operating in dense traffic, where vehicles closely interact with each other. To tackle this problem, we present a novel framework that couples trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Erik Börve , Nikolce Murgovski , Leo Laine

This paper considers the distributed robust control problems of uncertain linear multi-agent systems with undirected communication topologies. It is assumed that the agents have identical nominal dynamics while subject to different…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Lihua Xie , Xiangdong Liu

This paper investigates a distributed goal assignment problem in leader-following formation control of second-order multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent can communicate with nearby agents within the communication range and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Yun Ho Choi , Doik Kim

This paper presents a novel control protocol for robust distance-based formation control with prescribed performance in which agents are subjected to unknown external disturbances. Connectivity maintenance and collision avoidance among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Farhad Mehdifar , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Farzad Hashemzadeh , Mahdi Baradarannia

Solving an output consensus problem in multi-agent systems is often hindered by multiple time-variant delays. To address such fundamental problems over time, we present a new optimal time-variant distributed control for linearly perturbed…

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