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We study resilient leader-follower consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of adversarial agents, where agents' communication is modeled by time-varying topologies. The objective is to develop distributed algorithms for the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

We present Stratified Metric Temporal Logic (SMTL), a novel formalism for specifying and verifying properties of complex cyber-physical systems that exhibit behaviors across multiple temporal and abstraction scales. SMTL extends existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Ali Baheri , Peng Wei

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have emerged as a promising solution towards ameliorating urban traffic congestion, with Traffic Signal Control (TSC) identified as a critical component. Although Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Rongpeng Li , Jianhang Zhu , Jiahao Huang , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

We present SaSTL -- a novel Spatial Aggregation Signal Temporal Logic -- for the efficient runtime monitoring of safety and performance requirements in smart cities. We first describe a study of over 1,000 smart city requirements, some of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Meiyi Ma , Ezio Bartocci , Eli Lifland , John Stankovic , Lu Feng

Persistent monitoring of dynamic targets is essential in real-world applications such as disaster response, environmental sensing, and wildlife conservation, where mobile agents must continuously gather information under uncertainty. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xingjian Zhang , Yizhuo Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

Cyber-Physical Systems~(CPS) consist of collaborative, networked and tightly intertwined computational (logical) and physical components, each operating at different spatial and temporal scales. Hence, the spatial and temporal requirements…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ezio Bartocci , Luca Bortolussi , Michele Loreti , Laura Nenzi

This paper presents a hybrid control framework for the motion planning of a multi-agent system including N robotic agents and M objects, under high level goals expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. In particular, we design…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The paper focuses on designing a controller for unknown dynamical multi-agent systems to achieve temporal reach-avoid-stay tasks for each agent while preventing inter-agent collisions. The main objective is to generate a spatiotemporal tube…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ahan Basu , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

Effective agent coordination is crucial in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). While agent cooperation can be represented by graph structures, prevailing graph learning methods in MARL are limited. They rely solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wei Duan , Jie Lu , Junyu Xuan

Control and communication are often tightly coupled in motion planning of networked mobile robots, due to the fact that robotic motions will affect the overall communication quality, and the quality of service (QoS) of the communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Zhiyu Liu , Bo Wu , Jin Dai , Hai Lin

Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) can consist of various networked components and agents interacting and communicating with each other. In the context of spatially distributed CPS, these connections can be dynamically dependent on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Anand Balakrishnan , Sheryl Paul , Simone Silvetti , Laura Nenzi , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of inter-wined computational (cyber) and physical components interacting through sensors and/or actuators. Computational elements are networked at every scale and can communicate with each other and with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 L. Nenzi , E. Bartocci , L. Bortolussi , M. Loreti

Developing safe human-robot interaction systems is a necessary step towards the widespread integration of autonomous agents in society. A key component of such systems is the ability to reason about the many potential futures (e.g.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone

Multiagent Systems (MASs) involve different characteristics, such as autonomy, asynchronous and social features, which make these systems more difficult to understand. Thus, there is a lack of procedures guaranteeing that multiagent systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Nathalia Nascimento , Carlos Lucena , Paulo Alencar , Carlos Juliano Viana

Inferring spatial-temporal properties from data is important for many complex systems, such as additive manufacturing systems, swarm robotic systems and biological networks. Such systems can often be modeled as a labeled graph where labels…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Zhe Xu , Alexander J Nettekoven , A. Agung Julius , Ufuk Topcu

We investigate the task and motion planning problem for Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in robotics. Existing STL methods rely on pre-defined maps or mobility representations, which are ineffective in unstructured real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bowen Ye , Junyue Huang , Yang Liu , Xiaozhen Qiao , Xiang Yin

Enabling resilient autonomous motion planning requires robust predictions of surrounding road users' future behavior. In response to this need and the associated challenges, we introduce our model titled MTP-GO. The model encodes the scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Theodor Westny , Joel Oskarsson , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

Autonomous agents acting in realistic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) should be able to adapt during their execution. Standard strategic logics, such as Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), model agents' state- or history-dependent behaviour.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rustam Galimullin , Hermine Grosinger , Munyque Mittelmann

From biological systems to cyber-physical systems, monitoring the behavior of such dynamical systems often requires to reason about complex spatio-temporal properties of physical and/or computational entities that are dynamically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Ennio Visconti , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Loreti , Laura Nenzi

This paper proposes a decentralized controller for large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances, where agents must satisfy Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications requiring cooperation among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas