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Designing multi-agent robotic systems requires reasoning across tightly coupled decisions spanning heterogeneous domains, including robot design, fleet composition, and planning. Much effort has been devoted to isolated improvements in…

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This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose a learning-based robust predictive control algorithm that compensates for significant uncertainty in the dynamics for a class of discrete-time systems that are nominally linear with an additive nonlinear component. Such systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-15 Rohan Sinha , James Harrison , Spencer M. Richards , Marco Pavone

This paper addresses the problem of consensus tracking with fixed-time convergence, for leader-follower multi-agent systems with double-integrator dynamics, where only a subset of followers has access to the state of the leader. The control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Miguel A. Trujillo , Rodrigo Aldana-López , David Gomez Gutierrez , Michael Defoort , Javier Ruiz Leon , Hector M. Becerra

In this paper, we consider the consensus problem of hybrid multi-agent system. First, the hybrid multi-agent system is proposed which is composed of continuous-time and discrete-time dynamic agents. Then, three kinds of consensus protocols…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Yuanshi Zheng , Jingying Ma , Long Wang

In this paper we propose a compositional scheme for the construction of abstractions for networks of control systems using the interconnection matrix and joint dissipativity-type properties of subsystems and their abstractions. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Majid Zamani , Murat Arcak

In this work, we present a compositional safety controller synthesis approach for the class of discrete-time linear control systems. Here, we leverage a state-of-the-art result on the computation of robust controlled invariant sets. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Siyuan Liu , Majid Zamani

Diffusion models excel at short-horizon robot planning, yet scaling them to long-horizon tasks remains challenging due to computational constraints and limited training data. Existing compositional approaches stitch together short segments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yixin Zhang , Yunhao Luo , Utkarsh Aashu Mishra , Woo Chul Shin , Yongxin Chen , Danfei Xu

This paper addresses the formation maneuver control problem of leader-follower multi-agent systems with high-order integrator dynamics. A distributed output feedback formation maneuver controller is proposed to achieve desired maneuvers so…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Xu Fang , Lihua Xie

This paper studies the problem of coordinating a group of $n$th-order integrator systems. As for the well-studied conventional consensus problem, we consider linear and distributed control with only local and relative measurements. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Jonas Hansson , Emma Tegling

In this paper, we study the longitudinal control problem for a platoon of vehicles with unknown nonlinear dynamics under both the predecessor-following and the bidirectional control architectures. The proposed control protocols are fully…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Christos K. Verginis , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

This brief addresses the distributed consensus problem of nonlinear multi-agent systems under a general directed communication topology. Each agent is governed by higher-order dynamics with mismatched uncertainties, multiple completely…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gang Wang , Chaoli Wang , Zhengtao Ding , Yunfeng Ji

This paper proposes a consensus controller for multi-agent systems that can guarantee the agents' safety. The controller, built with the idea of output prediction and the Newton-Raphson method, achieves consensus for a class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Kaicheng Niu , Chaouki Abdallah , Mohammad Hayajneh

We design controllers from formal specifications for positive discrete-time monotone systems that are subject to bounded disturbances. Such systems are widely used to model the dynamics of transportation and biological networks. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

We present assume-guarantee contracts for continuous-time linear dynamical systems with inputs and outputs. These contracts are used to express specifications on the dynamic behaviour of a system. Contrary to existing approaches, we use…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-07 B. M. Shali , H. M. Heidema , A. J. van der Schaft , B. Besselink

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

This paper proposes an approach to addresses the control challenges posed by a fault-induced uncertainty in both the dynamics and control input effectiveness of a class of hierarchical nonlinear systems in which the high-level dynamics is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Sina Ameli , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

Two finite-time consensus protocols are proposed for multi-dimensional multi-agent systems, using direction-preserving and component-wise signum controls respectively. Filippov solutions and non-smooth analysis techniques are adopted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Jieqiang Wei , Bart Besselink , Junfeng Wu , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

This paper considers the consensus performance improvement problem of networked general linear agents subject to external disturbances over Markovian randomly switching communication topologies. The consensus control laws can only use its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Jingyao Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Jianping Zeng

Discrete-time stochastic systems with continuous spaces are hard to verify and control, even with MDP abstractions due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose an abstraction-based framework with robust dynamic programming mappings that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Ruohan Wang , Siyuan Liu , Zhiyong Sun , Sofie Haesaert