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The goal of this thesis is to design a learning model predictive controller (LMPC) that allows multiple agents to race competitively on a predefined race track in real-time. This thesis addresses two major shortcomings in the already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lukas Brunke

The flocking motion control is concerned with managing the possible conflicts between local and team objectives of multi-agent systems. The overall control process guides the agents while monitoring the flock-cohesiveness and localization.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Shuzheng Qu , Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Davide Spinello

Autonomous mobility-on-demand systems are a viable alternative to mitigate many transportation-related externalities in cities, such as rising vehicle volumes in urban areas and transportation-related pollution. However, the success of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Kai Jungel , Axel Parmentier , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

The current paper addresses the distributed guaranteed-performance consensus design problems for general high-order linear multiagent systems with leaderless and leader-follower structures, respectively. The information about the Laplacian…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jianxiang Xi , Jie Yang , Hao Liu , Tang Zheng

We consider the online control problem with an unknown linear dynamical system in the presence of adversarial perturbations and adversarial convex loss functions. Although the problem is widely studied in model-based control, it remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Zishun Liu , Yongxin Chen

Multiple federated learning (FL) methods are proposed for traffic flow forecasting (TFF) to avoid heavy-transmission and privacy-leaking concerns resulting from the disclosure of raw data in centralized methods. However, these FL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Qingxiang Liu , Sheng Sun , Yuxuan Liang , Xiaolong Xu , Min Liu , Muhammad Bilal , Yuwei Wang , Xujing Li , Yu Zheng

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a vital technique for autonomous systems, like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), enabling optimized motion planning. However, traditional MPC struggles to adapt to real-time changes such as dynamic obstacles…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wael Hafez , Amir Nazeri

In this paper, we present a distributed optimal multiagent control scheme for quadrotor formation tracking under localization errors. Our control architecture is based on a leader-follower approach, where a single leader quadrotor tracks a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Clinton Enwerem , John Baras , Danilo Romero

This paper investigates a distributed formation tracking control law for large-scale networks of mechanical systems. In particular, the formation network is represented by a directed communication graph with leaders and followers, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 N. Javanmardi , P. Borja , M. J. Yazdanpanah , J. M. A. Scherpen

This paper considers a leader-following problem for a group of heterogeneous linear time invariant (LTI) followers that are interacting over a directed acyclic graph. Only a subset of the followers has access to the state of the leader in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yi-Fan Chung , Solmaz S. Kia

In this paper, we consider a coordination problem for a class of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with a prescribed input-output behavior which was represented by another input-driven system. In contrast to most existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Yutao Tang

This paper develops an optimal relative output-feedback based solution to the containment control problem of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems. A distributed optimal control protocol is presented for the followers to not only assure…

In this paper, we develop a data-based controller design framework for diffusively coupled systems with guaranteed convergence to an $\epsilon$-neighborhood of the desired formation. The controller is comprised of a fixed controller with an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Miel Sharf , Anne Koch , Daniel Zelazo , Frank Allgöwer

This paper addresses a distributed leader-follower formation control problem for a group of agents, each using a body-fixed camera with a limited field of view (FOV) for state estimation. The main challenge arises from the need to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Richie R. Suganda , Tony Tran , Miao Pan , Lei Fan , Qin Lin , Bin Hu

We develop a physics-informed learning framework for energy-shaping control of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems from trajectory data. The proposed approach co-learns a pH system model and an optimal energy-balancing passivity-based controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ankur Kamboj , Biswadip Dey , Vaibhav Srivastava

This paper focuses on the consensus and formation problems of multiagent systems under unknown persistent disturbances. Specifically, we propose a novel method that combines an existing consensus (or formation) algorithm with a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Tansel Yucelen , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper seeks to combine differential game theory with the actor-critic-identifier architecture to determine forward-in-time, approximate optimal controllers for formation tracking in multi-agent systems, where the agents have uncertain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Justin R. Klotz , Patrick Walters , Warren E. Dixon

This paper considers the containment control problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and multiple leaders whose control inputs are possibly nonzero and time varying. Based on the relative states of neighboring agents, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Wei Ren , Gang Feng

Federated learning has emerged as an essential paradigm for distributed multi-source data analysis under privacy concerns. Most existing federated learning methods focus on the ``static" datasets. However, in many real-world applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-12 Jingmao Li , Yuanxing Chen , Shuangge Ma , Kuangnan Fang

This paper addresses the problem of online inverse reinforcement learning for systems with limited data and uncertain dynamics. In the developed approach, the state and control trajectories are recorded online by observing an agent perform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Ryan Self , S M Nahid Mahmud , Katrine Hareland , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar