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Transportation occupies one-third of the amount in the logistics costs, and accordingly transportation systems largely influence the performance of the logistics system. This work presents an adaptive data-driven innovative modular approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Emir Zunic , Dzenana Donko , Emir Buza

Coordination in traffic signal control is crucial for managing congestion in urban networks. Existing pressure-based control methods focus only on immediate upstream links, leading to suboptimal green time allocation and increased network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaocan Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Ilia Smirnov , Scott Sanner , Baher Abdulhai

Distributed descent-based methods are an essential toolset to solving optimization problems in multi-agent system scenarios. Here the agents seek to optimize a global objective function through mutual cooperation. Oftentimes, cooperation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Arunselvan Ramaswamy

This paper presents a distributed continuous-time optimization framework aimed at overcoming the challenges posed by time-varying cost functions and constraints in multi-agent systems, particularly those subject to disturbances. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Mohammad Deghat

This paper is devoted to distributed continuous-time and discrete-time optimization problems with nonuniform convex constraint sets and nonuniform stepsizes for general differentiable convex objective functions. The communication graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Chunhua Yang , Weihua Gui

This paper addresses the problem of nonconvex nonsmooth decentralised optimisation in multi-agent networks with undirected connected communication graphs. Our contribution lies in introducing an algorithmic framework designed for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Behnam Mafakheri , Jonathan H. Manton , Iman Shames

Inefficient traffic signal control methods may cause numerous problems, such as traffic congestion and waste of energy. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a trending data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control in complex urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Zhenning Li , Chengzhong Xu , Guohui Zhang

Distributed optimization is an important direction of research in modern optimization theory. Its applications include large scale machine learning, distributed signal processing and many others. The paper studies decentralized min-max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Nhat Trung Nguyen , Alexander Rogozin , Dmitry Metelev , Alexander Gasnikov

We formulate and solve a class of finite-time transport and mixing problems in the set-oriented framework. The aim is to obtain optimal discrete-time perturbations in nonlinear dynamical systems to transport a specified initial measure on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Piyush Grover , Karthik Elamvazhuthi

Reliable simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are necessary for safety-critical autonomous navigation. In the communication-constrained multi-agent setting, navigation systems increasingly use point-to-point range sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Alexander Thoms , Alan Papalia , Jared Velasquez , David M. Rosen , Sriram Narasimhan

In multiple target tracking, it is important to be able to evaluate the performance of different tracking algorithms. The trajectory generalized optimal sub-pattern assignment metric (TGOSPA) is a recently proposed metric for such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Viktor Nevelius Wernholm , Alfred Wärnsäter , Axel Ringh

Multi-robot systems are integral to modern logistics, but their capabilities are often limited to tasks executable by individual agents. This paper addresses a critical gap in existing frameworks like Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ning Zhou , Nikolai W. F. Bode , Edmund R. Hunt

Reinforcement learning (RL) is currently one of the most prominent methods for optimizing dynamical systems, with breakthrough results across various fields. The framework is based on the concept of a Markov decision process (MDP), leading…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Rene Carmona , Mathieu Lauriere

Multiple robotic systems, working together, can provide important solutions to different real-world applications (e.g., disaster response), among which task allocation problems feature prominently. Very few existing decentralized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Payam Ghassemi , David DePauw , Souma Chowdhury

Coordination graph is a promising approach to model agent collaboration in multi-agent reinforcement learning. It conducts a graph-based value factorization and induces explicit coordination among agents to complete complicated tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Qianlan Yang , Weijun Dong , Zhizhou Ren , Jianhao Wang , Tonghan Wang , Chongjie Zhang

Cooperative pathfinding is a multi-agent path planning problem where a group of vehicles searches for a corresponding set of non-conflicting space-time trajectories. Many of the practical methods for centralized solving of cooperative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Jiří Vokřínek , Michal Pěchouček

In this paper, we consider the optimal coordination of automated vehicles at intersections under fixed crossing orders. We formulate the problem using direct optimal control and exploit the structure to construct a semi-distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Robert Hult , Mario Zanon , Sebastien Gros , Paolo Falcone

Coordination of distributed agents is required for problems arising in many areas, including multi-robot systems, networking and e-commerce. As a formal framework for such problems, we use the decentralized partially observable Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Daniel S. Bernstein , Christopher Amato , Eric A. Hansen , Shlomo Zilberstein

In this article, we present an algorithm that drives the outputs of a network of agents to jointly track the solutions of time-varying optimization problems in a way that is robust to asynchrony in the agents' operations. We consider three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Longmire , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Hale

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important framework for modeling coordinated decision-making problems in multi-agent systems with a set of discrete variables. Later works have extended DCOPs to model problems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Moumita Choudhury , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings