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We consider the problem of controlling a set of dynamically decoupled plants where the plants' subcontrollers communicate with each other according to a fixed and known network topology. We assume the communication to be instantaneous but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Mruganka Kashyap , Laurent Lessard

This paper considers a leader-following problem for a group of heterogeneous linear time invariant (LTI) followers that are interacting over a directed acyclic graph. Only a subset of the followers has access to the state of the leader in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yi-Fan Chung , Solmaz S. Kia

We study a decentralized linear quadratic Gaussian control problem, in which a leader and a follower must steer a linear system to a target state. The target state is known only to the leader, and no explicit communication channel exists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, a distributed tracking control scheme with distributed estimators has been developed for a leader-follower multi-agent system with measurement noises and directed interconnection topology. It is supposed that each follower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Jiangping Hu , Gang Feng

In this article, we introduce decentralized Kalman filters for linear quadratic deep structured teams. The agents in deep structured teams are coupled in dynamics, costs and measurements through a set of linear regressions of the states and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jalal Arabneydi , Amir G. Aghdam

The focus of this paper is directed towards optimal control of multi-agent systems consisting of one leader and a number of followers in the presence of noise. The dynamics of every agent is assumed to be linear, and the performance index…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Jalal Arabneydi , Mohammad M. Baharloo , Amir G. Aghdam

In this paper, we study a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game problem in which a single leader and multiple followers are involved. We consider more practical formulation for partial information that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yichun Li , Yaozhong Hu , Jingtao Shi , Yueyang Zheng

This paper studies the consensus problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems by the feedforward control and linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Different from the existing consensus control algorithms, which require to design an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper, the optimal local and remote linear quadratic (LQ) control problem is studied for a networked control system (NCS) which consists of multiple subsystems and each of which is described by a general multiplicative noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Qingyuan Qi , Lihua Xie , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper, network of agents with identical dynamics is considered. The agents are assumed to be fed by self and neighboring output measurements, while the states are not available for measuring. Viewing distributed estimation as dual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Eleftherios Vlahakis , George Halikias

This work is concerned with the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering of networked systems governed by discrete-time stochastic linear dynamics. In contrast with existing work that has only considered systems with dynamically decoupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Ahmed Khalil , Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

This paper addresses the problem of composite synchronization and learning control in a network of multi-agent robotic manipulator systems with heterogeneous nonlinear uncertainties under a leader-follower framework. A novel two-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Emadodin Jandaghi , Dalton L. Stein , Adam Hoburg , Paolo Stegagno , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

A finite horizon linear quadratic(LQ) optimal control problem is studied for a class of discrete-time linear fractional systems (LFSs) affected by multiplicative, independent random perturbations. Based on the dynamic programming technique,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-01 J. J. Trujillo , V. M. Ungureanu

This paper is concerned with a leader-follower problem for a multi-agent system with a switching interconnection topology. Distributed observers are designed for the second-order follower-agents, under the common assumption that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Yiguang Hong , Guanrong Chen , Linda Bushnell

This paper is concerned with optimal control of stochastic fully coupled forward-backward linear quadratic (FBLQ) problems with indefinite control weight costs. In order to obtain the state feedback representation of the optimal control, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

In this paper a decentralized control algorithm for systems composed of $N$ dynamically decoupled agents, coupled by feasibility constraints, is presented. The control problem is divided into $N$ optimal control sub-problems and a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Braghin , Andrew G. Alleyne , Stijn De Bruyne , Edoardo Sabbioni

Sequential estimation of a vector of linear regression coefficients is considered under both centralized and decentralized setups. In sequential estimation, the number of observations used for estimation is determined by the observed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-12-18 Yasin Yilmaz , George V. Moustakides , Xiaodong Wang

Distributed optimal control is known to be challenging and can become intractable even for linear-quadratic regulator problems. In this work, we study a special class of such problems where distributed state feedback controllers can give…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Johan Olsson , Runyu Zhang , Emma Tegling , Na Li

This paper considers a localized data-driven consensus problem for leader-follower multi-agent systems with unknown discrete-time agent dynamics, where each follower computes its local control gain using only their locally collected state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Zeze Chang , Junjie Jiao , Zhongkui Li

We consider team optimal control of decentralized systems with linear dynamics, quadratic costs, and arbitrary disturbance that consist of multiple sub-populations with exchangeable agents (i.e., exchanging two agents within the same…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Jalal Arabneydi , Aditya Mahajan