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It has long been a prominent challenge in multi-agent systems to achieve distributed coverage of non-convex annulus environments while ensuring workload equalization among agents. To address this challenge, a distributed circumferential…
In this paper, we present a decentralized sensor-level collision avoidance policy for multi-robot systems, which shows promising results in practical applications. In particular, our policy directly maps raw sensor measurements to an…
This article addresses the visual area coverage problem using a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs are assumed to be equipped with a downward facing camera covering all points of interest within a circle on the ground. The…
We present a novel, decentralized collision avoidance algorithm for navigating a swarm of quadrotors in dense environments populated with static and dynamic obstacles. Our algorithm relies on the concept of Optimal Reciprocal…
In structured multi-agent transportation systems, agents often must follow predefined routes, making spatial rerouting undesirable or impossible. This paper addresses route-constrained multi-agent coordination by optimizing waypoint passage…
In this paper, an efficient deployment strategy is proposed for a network of mobile and static sensors with nonidentical sensing and communication radii. The multiplicatively weighted Voronoi (MW-Voronoi) diagram is used to partition the…
In this paper, we present a novel decentralized controller to drive multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into a symmetric formation of regular polygon shape surrounding a mobile target. The proposed controller works for time-varying…
We propose a model-free reinforcement learning method for controlling mixed autonomy traffic in simulated traffic networks with through-traffic-only two-way and four-way intersections. Our method utilizes multi-agent policy decomposition…
In this paper, we propose a method to avoid "no-solution" situations of the control barrier function (CBF) for distributed collision avoidance in a multiagent autonomous robotic system (MARS). MARS, which is composed of distributed…
Cooperatively avoiding collision is a critical functionality for robots navigating in dense human crowds, failure of which could lead to either overaggressive or overcautious behavior. A necessary condition for cooperative collision…
This paper investigates autonomous vehicle (AV) platoon control under uncertain dynamics and intermittent communication, which remains a critical challenge in intelligent transportation systems. To address these issues, this paper proposes…
The utilisation of unmanned aerial vehicles has witnessed significant growth in real-world applications including surveillance tasks, military missions, and transportation deliveries. This letter investigates practical problems of formation…
We present a novel approach for collision-free global navigation for continuous-time multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics. Our approach is general and can be used to perform collision-free navigation in 2D and 3D workspaces with…
This paper tackles the problem of positioning a swarm of UAVs inside a completely unknown terrain, having as objective to maximize the overall situational awareness. The situational awareness is expressed by the number and quality of unique…
We present the first decentralized multi-copter flock that performs stable autonomous outdoor flight with up to 10 flying agents. By decentralized and autonomous we mean that all members navigate themselves based on the dynamic information…
The cooperation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has shown great potential in improving traffic efficiency during intersection management. Existing research mainly focuses on intersections where lane changing is prohibited, which…
Multi-agent collision-free trajectory planning and control subject to different goal requirements and system dynamics has been extensively studied, and is gaining recent attention in the realm of machine and reinforcement learning. However,…
This paper presents an approach to mutual collision avoidance based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) with time-dependent Reciprocal Velocity Constraints (RVCs). Unlike most existing methods, the proposed approach relies solely…
We present a decentralized path-planning algorithm for navigating multiple differential-drive robots in dense environments. In contrast to prior decentralized methods, we propose a novel congestion metric-based replanning that couples local…
This work presents a distributed method for multi-vehicle coordination based on nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) and dual decomposition. Our approach allows the vehicles to coordinate in tight spaces (e.g., busy highway lanes or…