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This research investigates decentralized control of mobile robots specifically for coverage problems. There are different approaches associated with decentralized control strategy for coverage control problems. We perform a comparative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Waqqas Ahmad

This article presents a unified approach to quadratic optimal control for both linear and nonlinear discrete-time systems, with a focus on trajectory tracking. The control strategy is based on minimizing a quadratic cost function that…

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In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a robust motion formation distributed control algorithm for a team of mobile robots. The primary task for the team is to form a geometric shape, which can be freely translated and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Hector Garcia de Marina , Johan Siemonsma , Bayu Jayawardhana , Ming Cao

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control of continuous-time system with terminal state constraint. In particular, multiple agents exist in the system which can only access partial information of the matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

The linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem for the linear wave equation on the unit circle with fully distributed actuation and partial state measurements is considered. An analytical solution to a spatial discretization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Addie McCurdy , Emily Jensen

We address the synthesis of distributed control policies to enable a swarm of homogeneous mobile sensors to maintain a desired spatial distribution in a geophysical flow environment, or workspace. In this article, we assume the mobile…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-09-17 Kenneth Mallory , M. Ani Hsieh , Eric Forgoston , Ira B. Schwartz

Successful robotic operation in stochastic environments relies on accurate characterization of the underlying probability distributions, yet this is often imperfect due to limited knowledge. This work presents a control algorithm that is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Haruki Nishimura , Negar Mehr , Adrien Gaidon , Mac Schwager

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem is a classic and widely studied model in optimal control, providing a fundamental framework for designing controllers for linear systems subject to process and observation noises. In recent years,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoran Li , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni , Xuebo Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of dynamically tuning gains for multi-robot systems (MRS) under potential based control design framework where the MRS team coordinates to maintain a connected topology while equipped with limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Pratik Mukherjee , Matteo Santilli , Andrea Gasparri , Ryan K. Williams

We propose a general framework for creating parameterized control schemes for decentralized multi-robot systems. A variety of tasks can be seen in the decentralized multi-robot literature, each with many possible control schemes. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Stephen Jacobs , R. Michael Butts , Yu Gu , Ali Baheri , Guilherme A. S. Pereira

This paper describes the design of a linear quadratic gaussian (LQG) for trajectory tracking control of UAV Bicopter. In this work, disturbance in the form of payload significantly affects the trajectory tracking control process on the UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Fahmizal , Hanung Adi Nugroho , Adha Imam Cahyadi , Igi Ardiyanto

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…

We present a data-driven method for solving the linear quadratic regulator problem for systems with multiplicative disturbances, the distribution of which is only known through sample estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Peter Coppens , Mathijs Schuurmans , Panagiotis Patrinos

This paper integrates cooperative localization with continuum deformation coordination of a multi-quadcopter system {(MQS) to assure safety and optimality of the quadcopter team coordination in the presence of position uncertainty. We first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Hamid Emadi , Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hashem Ashrafiuon , Hossein Rastgoftar

This survey comprehensively reviews the evolving field of multi-robot collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). As an explicit scene representation, 3DGS has enabled unprecedented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Phuc Nguyen Xuan , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huu-Hung Nguyen , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Control of nonlinear uncertain systems is a common challenge in the robotics field. Nonlinear latent force models, which incorporate latent uncertainty characterized as Gaussian processes, carry the promise of representing such systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Thomas Woodruff , Iman Askari , Guanghui Wang , Huazhen Fang

Circumnavigation control is useful in real-world applications such as entrapping a hostile target. In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous multi-robot system where robots have different physical properties, such as maximum movement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Weijia Yao , Sha Luo , Huimin Lu , Junhao Xiao

This research investigates strategies for multi-robot coordination in multi-human environments. It proposes a multi-objective learning-based coordination approach to addressing the problem of path planning, navigation, task scheduling, task…

This paper presents a prototyping framework for distributed control of multi-robot systems, aimed at bridging theory and practical testing of distributed optimization algorithms. Using the Single Program, Multiple Data (SPMD) paradigm, the…

This paper studies distributed Q-learning for Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) in a multi-agent network. The existing results often assume that agents can observe the global system state, which may be infeasible in large-scale systems due…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Hang Wang , Sen Lin , Hamid Jafarkhani , Junshan Zhang