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This brief proposes a distributed formation control strategy via matrix-weighted Laplacian that can achieve a similar formation in 2-D planar using inter-agent relative displacement measurement. Formation patterns that include translation,…

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This paper addresses the problem of bearing leader-follower formation control in three-dimensional space by exploring the persistence of excitation (PE) of the desired formation. Using only bearing and relative velocity measurements,…

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Biological systems can form complex three-dimensional structures through the collective behavior of agents that share a common update rule and operate without central control. How such distributed control gives rise to precise global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Seong Ho Pahng , Guoye Guan , Benjamin Fefferman , Sahand Hormoz

This paper studies the problem of distributed formation maneuver control of multi-agent systems via complex Laplacian. We will show how to change the translation, scaling, rotation, and also the shape of formation continuously by only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Xu Fang , Lihua Xie

Formation control deals with the design of decentralized control laws that stabilize agents at prescribed distances from each other. We call any configuration that satisfies the inter-agent distance conditions a target configuration. It is…

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Deep generative models learn the data distribution, which is concentrated on a low-dimensional manifold. The geometric analysis of distribution transformation provides a better understanding of data structure and enables a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Junhao Chen , Manyi Li , Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao , Changhe Tu

In this paper, we present a distributed optimal multiagent control scheme for quadrotor formation tracking under localization errors. Our control architecture is based on a leader-follower approach, where a single leader quadrotor tracks a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Clinton Enwerem , John Baras , Danilo Romero

We present three classes of distributed formation controllers for achieving and maintaining the 2D/3D formation shape of manipulator end-effectors to cope with different scenarios due to availability of modeling parameters. We firstly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Haiwen Wu , Bayu Jayawardhana , Hector Garcia de Marina , Dabo Xu

Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ethan Pronovost , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Noureldin Hendy , Zeyu Wang , Andres Morales , Kai Wang , Nicholas Roy

This paper studies the problem of integrated distributed network localization and formation maneuver control. We develop an integrated relative-measurement-based scheme, which only uses relative positions, distances, bearings, angles,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Xu Fang , Lihua Xie , Xiaolei Li

Motivated by applications in intelligent highway systems, the paper studies the problem of guiding mobile agents in a one-dimensional formation to their desired relative positions. Only coarse information is used which is communicated from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Claudio De Persis , Hui Liu , Ming Cao

This paper investigates the formation control problem of heterogeneous, autonomous agents that communicate over a wireless multiple access channel. Instead of avoiding interference through orthogonal node-to-node transmissions, we exploit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Michael Epp , Fabio Molinari , Jörg Raisch

This is a complete version of the 6-page IEEE TAC technical note [1]. In this paper, we consider the distributed surrounding of a convex target set by a group of agents with switching communication graphs. We propose a distributed…

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We consider the problem of controlling the group behavior of a large number of dynamic systems that are constantly interacting with each other. These systems are assumed to have identical dynamics (e.g., birds flock, robot swarm) and their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Yongxin Chen

Flexible variational distributions improve variational inference but are harder to optimize. In this work we present a control variate that is applicable for any reparameterizable distribution with known mean and covariance matrix, e.g.…

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The leader-follower formation control analysis for multiple quad-rotor systems is investigated in this paper. To achieve predefined formation in the three-dimensional air space ($x,y$ and $z$), a novel local tracking control law and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Lixia Yan , Baoli Ma

In this letter, we investigate the formation control problem of mobile robots moving in the plane where, instead of assuming robots to be simple points, each robot is assumed to have the form of a disk with equal radius. Based on interior…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Nelson P. K. Chan , Bayu Jayawardhana , Hector Garcia de Marina

Principle of Swarm Intelligence has recently found widespread application in formation control and automated tracking by the automated multi-agent system. This article proposes an elegant and effective method inspired by foraging dynamics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Debdipta Goswami , Chiranjib Saha , Kunal Pal , Swagatam Das

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis. However, when it comes to the layout-to-image generation where an image often has a complex scene of multiple objects, how to make strong control over both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guangcong Zheng , Xianpan Zhou , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Xi Li

In affine formation control problems, the construction of the framework with universal rigidity and affine localizability is a critical prerequisite, but it has not yet been well addressed, especially when additional agents join the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Huiming Li , Hao Chen , Xiangke Wang , Zhongkui Li , Lincheng Shen