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This paper addresses the problem of distance- and orientation-based formation control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in 3D space, under static and undirected communication topologies. More specifically, we design a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Alexandros Nikou , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Event-triggered communication and control provide high control performance in networked control systems without overloading the communication network. However, most approaches require precise mathematical models of the system dynamics,…

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Based on the practical scenario where collisions in formation control may lead to agent damage, this paper investigates the integrated problem of distance-based formation control and collision avoidance for multi-agent systems governed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jingyi Zhao , Yongxin Wu , Héctor García de Marina , Yuhu Wu , Yann Le Gorrec

This extended abstract presents our recent work on the leader-following consensus control for generic linear multi-agent systems. An improved dynamic event-triggered control framework are proposed, based on a moving average approach. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Zeyuan Wang , Mohammed Chadli

In this paper, we present a solution to a design problem of control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Although existing learning-based methods assume that the number of agents is the same as that in the training environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Takamitsu Matsubara

This paper proposes a distributed controller synthesis framework for safe navigation of multi-agent systems. We leverage control barrier functions to formulate collision avoidance with obstacles and teammates as constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Pol Mestres , Carlos Nieto-Granda , Jorge Cortés

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

The problem of distributed formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots is addressed in this paper, in which the robots are designed to track a formation. Collision avoidance among agents is guaranteed using a control law based on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Thang Nguyen , Hung M. La

This work introduces a distributed formation control strategy for multi-agent systems based solely on rotation symmetry constraints. We propose a potential function that enforces inter-agent \textbf{rotational} symmetries, whose gradient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Zamir Martinez , Daniel Zelazo

This paper proposes a distributed scheme with different estimators for the event-triggered formation control of polytopic homogeneously scheduled linear parameter-varying (LPV) multi-agent systems (MAS). Each agent consists of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Gerald Gebhardt , Hamideh Saadabadi , Herbert Werner

In this paper, we consider the event-triggered cooperative robust practical output regulation problem for a class of linear minimum-phase multi-agent systems. We first convert our problem into the cooperative robust practical stabilization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Wei Liu , Jie Huang

In this paper, we present a machine learning approach to move a group of robots in a formation. We model the problem as a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem. Our aim is to design a control policy for maintaining a desired formation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Abhay Rawat , Kamalakar Karlapalem

This paper studies the event-triggered cooperative global robust output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems via a distributed internal model design. We show that our problem can be solved practically in the sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Wei Liu , Jie Huang

This paper studies the tracking control problem of networked multi-agent systems under both multiple networks and event-triggered mechanisms. Multiple networks are to connect multiple agents and reference systems with decentralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Wei Ren , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We develop a learning-based algorithm for the distributed formation control of networked multi-agent systems governed by unknown, nonlinear dynamics. Most existing algorithms either assume certain parametric forms for the unknown dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Christos K. Verginis , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

A decentralized switched controller is developed for dynamic agents to perform global formation configuration convergence while maintaining network connectivity and avoiding collision within agents and between stationary obstacles, using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Teng-Hu Cheng , Zhen Kan , Joel A. Rosenfeld , Warren E. Dixon

We propose two distributed dynamic triggering laws to solve the consensus problem for multi-agent systems with event-triggered control. Compared with existing triggering laws, the proposed triggering laws involve internal dynamic variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Xinlei Yi , Kun Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Karl H. Johansson

This paper addresses the challenges of distributed formation control in multiple mobile robots, introducing a novel approach that enhances real-world practicability. We first introduce a distributed estimator using a variable structure and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhe Xu , Tao Yan , Simon X. Yang , S. Andrew Gadsden , Mohammad Biglarbegian

Unlike the case with identical neighboring agents whose actions are mirrored, the problem of distributed formation control design with heterogeneous sensing is not straightforward. In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Jin Chen , Bayu Jayawardhana , Hector Garcia de Marina

The paper considers event-triggered leader-follower tracking control for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics. For both undirected and directed follower graphs, we propose event triggering rules which guarantee bounded tracking…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yi Cheng , V. Ugrinovskii