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We study the multi-agent safe control problem where agents should avoid collisions to static obstacles and collisions with each other while reaching their goals. Our core idea is to learn the multi-agent control policy jointly with learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zengyi Qin , Kaiqing Zhang , Yuxiao Chen , Jingkai Chen , Chuchu Fan

This paper describes a hierarchical solution consisting of a multi-phase planner and a low-level safe controller to jointly solve the safe navigation problem in crowded, dynamic, and uncertain environments. The planner employs dynamic gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hongyi Chen , Shiyu Feng , Ye Zhao , Changliu Liu , Patricio A. Vela

In this paper, a distributed formation flight control topology for Leader-Follower formation structure is presented. Such topology depends in the first place on online generation of the trajectories that should be followed by the agents in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Batool Ibrahim , Hasan Noura

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for multiagent offline trajectory generation based on distributed model predictive control. Central to the algorithm's scalability and success is the development of an on-demand collision avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Carlos E. Luis , Angela P. Schoellig

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

This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning framework for trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles in cluttered environments using a dual-agent architecture. Traditional optimization methods for trajectory tracking face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shaswat Garg , Houman Masnavi , Baris Fidan , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

This paper addresses the problem of both actively searching and tracking multiple unknown dynamic objects in a known environment with multiple cooperative autonomous agents with partial observability. The tracking of a target ends when the…

This paper addresses the challenge of navigating unmanned aerial vehicles in contested environments by introducing a cooperative multi-agent framework that increases the likelihood of safe UAV traversal. The approach involves two types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson

This paper addresses connectivity preservation in leader-follower multi-agent systems with unknown control-affine dynamics and local state information. We introduce the distributed data-driven zeroing control barrier function (3D-ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Mirhan Urkmez , Maryam Sharifi , Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari

Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is the problem of finding paths for multiple agents such that every agent reaches its goal and the agents do not collide. Most prior work on MAPF was on grids, assumed agents' actions have uniform duration,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Dor Atzmon , Roni Stern

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

Recent advances in robotics have enabled the widespread deployment of autonomous robotic systems in complex operational environments, presenting both unprecedented opportunities and significant security problems. Traditional shepherding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wenqing Wang , Ye Zhang , Haoyu Li , Jingyu Wang

This paper provides a solution to the problem of safe region formation control with reference velocity tracking for a second-order multi-agent system without velocity measurements. Safe region formation control is a control problem where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ayush Rai , Shaoshuai Mou

This paper presents a novel methodology to enforce motion safety guarantees even in the event of a sudden loss of control capabilities by any agent within a multi-agent system. This passive safety methodology permits the replacement of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Tommaso Guffanti , Simone D'Amico

This manuscript considers the problem of ensuring stability and safety during formation control with distributed multi-agent systems in the presence of parametric uncertainty in the dynamics and limited communication. We propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Jose A. Solano-Castellanos , Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha Annaswamy

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. In particular, we design control protocols that allow the transition of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Christos Verginis , Dimos Dimarogonas

Reliability is a critical aspect of multi-agent system coordination as it ensures that the system functions correctly and consistently. If one agent in the system fails or behaves unexpectedly, it can negatively impact the performance and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Mohammad Ghuran , Hossein Rastgoftar

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires collision-free trajectories for multiple agents on a shared graph, often with the objective of minimizing the sum-of-costs (SOC). Many optimal and bounded-suboptimal solvers rely on time-expanded…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fernando Salanova , Eduardo Montijano , Cristian Mahulea

We study a novel graph path planning problem for multiple agents that may crash at runtime, and block part of the workspace. In our setting, agents can detect neighboring crashed agents, and change followed paths at runtime. The objective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Keisuke Okumura , Sébastien Tixeuil

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to goal positions. Coordinating multiple agents in a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K. Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto