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Conventional affine formation control (AFC) empowers a network of agents with flexible but collective motions - a potential which has not yet been exploited for large-scale swarms. One of the key bottlenecks lies in the design of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zhonggang Li , Geert Leus , Raj Thilak Rajan

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

In the typical multiagent formation tracking problem centered on consensus, the prevailing assumption in the literature is that the agents' nonlinear models can be approximated by integrator systems, by their feedback-linearized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Clinton Enwerem , John S. Baras

The traditional Artificial Potential Field (APF) method exhibits limitations in its force distribution: excessive attraction when UAVs are far from the target may cause collisions with obstacles, while insufficient attraction near the goal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Bo Ma , Yi Ji , Liyong Fang

This paper addresses the problem of position- and orientation-based formation control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in a $3$D workspace with obstacles. More specifically, we design a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Christos K. Verginis , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Formation control with the flocking approach is an efficient method that can reach the formation without determining the agent's position. This paper focuses on reaching the circular formation around the leader or target with a specific…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Seyed Sajadi , Hajar Atrianfar

Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly used for planning in orchestrated multi-agent systems. However, existing LLM-based approaches often fall short of human expectations and, critically, lack effective mechanisms for users to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hannah Kim , Kushan Mitra , Chen Shen , Dan Zhang , Estevam Hruschka

An approach of mobile multi-agent pursuit based on application of self-organizing feature map (SOFM) and along with that reinforcement learning based on agent group role membership function (AGRMF) model is proposed. This method promotes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Muhammad Zuhair Qadir , Songhao Piao , Haiyang Jiang , Mohammed El Habib Souidi

In multi-agent systems, agents need to interact and collaborate with other agents in environments. Agent modeling is crucial to facilitate agent interactions and make adaptive cooperation strategies. However, it is challenging for agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Baofu Fang , Caiming Zheng , Hao Wang

Capturing and simulating intelligent adaptive behaviours within spatially explicit individual-based models remains an ongoing challenge for researchers. While an ever-increasing abundance of real-world behavioural data are collected, few…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Sedar Olmez , Dan Birks , Alison Heppenstall

We explore the use of Artificial Potential Fields (APFs) to solve Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) and Lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) problems. In MAPF, a team of agents must move to their goal locations without collisions, whereas in LMAPF, new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Arseniy Pertzovsky , Roni Stern , Ariel Felner , Roie Zivan

Modeling multi-agent systems requires understanding how agents interact. Such systems are often difficult to model because they can involve a variety of types of interactions that layer together to drive rich social behavioral dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Fan-Yun Sun , Isaac Kauvar , Ruohan Zhang , Jiachen Li , Mykel Kochenderfer , Jiajun Wu , Nick Haber

Formation strategy is one of the most important parts of many multi-agent systems with many applications in real world problems. In this paper, a framework for learning this task in a limited domain (restricted environment) is proposed. In…

This paper introduces and analyzes a new class of mean-field control (\textsc{MFC}) problems in which agents interact through a \emph{fixed but controllable} network structure. In contrast with the classical \textsc{MFC} framework -- where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Mao Fabrice Djete

Formation control is essential for swarm robotics, enabling coordinated behavior in complex environments. In this paper, we introduce a novel formation control system for an indoor blimp swarm using a specialized leader-follower approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tianfu Wu , Jiaqi Fu , Wugang Meng , Sungjin Cho , Huanzhe Zhan , Fumin Zhang

The problem of distributed controller synthesis for formation control of multi-agent systems is considered. The agents (single integrators) communicate over a communication graph and a decentralized linear feedback structure is assumed. One…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Ameer K. Mulla , Rachel K. Kalaimani , Debraj Chakraborty , Madhu N. Belur

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to power autonomous agents for complex, multi-step tasks. However, human-agent interaction remains pointwise and reactive: users approve or correct individual actions to mitigate immediate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Gaole He , Brian Y. Lim

This paper proposes an interaction and safety-aware motion-planning method for an autonomous vehicle in uncertain multi-vehicle traffic environments. The method integrates the ability of the interaction-aware interacting multiple model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Jian Zhou , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

We propose a distributed control and coordination strategy for multi-agent systems where each agent has a local task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula and at the same time is subject to relative-distance constraints with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose a hybrid model predictive control algorithm, consensus complementarity control (C3), for systems that make and break contact with their environment. Many state-of-the-art controllers for tasks which require initiating contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Alp Aydinoglu , Michael Posa