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Multi-agent, collaborative sensor fusion is a vital component of a multi-national intelligence toolkit. In safety-critical and/or contested environments, adversaries may infiltrate and compromise a number of agents. We analyze state of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 R. Spencer Hallyburton , Miroslav Pajic

We consider a multi-agent system where agents aim to achieve a consensus despite interactions with malicious agents that communicate misleading information. Physical channels supporting communication in cyberphysical systems offer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Michal Yemini

The availability of positional information is of great importance in many commercial, governmental, and military applications. Localization is commonly accomplished through the use of radio communication between mobile devices (agents) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yuan Shen , Henk Wymeersch , Moe Z. Win

In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Bauhofer , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma

This paper studies system stability and performance of multi-agent systems in the context of consensus problems over wireless multiple-access channels (MAC). We propose a consensus algorithm that exploits the broadcast property of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Fabio Molinari , Sławomir Stańczak , Jörg Raisch

Cooperative behavior design for multi-agent systems with collective tasks is a critical issue in promoting swarm intelligence. This paper investigates cooperative control for a multi-channel system, where each channel is managed by an agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Peihu Duan , Tao Liu , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen

Localizing users and mapping the environment using radio signals is a key task in emerging applications such as low-latency communications and safety-critical navigation. Recently introduced multipath-based SLAM methods can jointly localize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Xuhong Li , Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Erik Leitinger , Florian Meyer

One of the most essential prerequisites behind a successful task execution of a team of agents is to accurately estimate and track their poses. We consider a cooperative multi-agent positioning problem where each agent performs single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Milutin Pajovic , Vikrant Shah , Philip V. Orlik

Constructing a consistent shared spatial memory is a critical challenge in multi-agent systems, where partial observability and limited bandwidth often lead to catastrophic failures in coordination. We introduce a multi-agent predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhengru Fang , Yu Guo , Yuang Zhang , Haonan An , Wenbo Ding , Yuguang Fang

We consider a power-constrained sensor network, consisting of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC), that is deployed for the purpose of estimating a common random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

Underwater optical wireless links have limited range and intermittent connectivity due to the hostile aquatic channel impairments and misalignment between the optical transceivers. Therefore, multi-hop communication can expand the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Nasir Saeed , Abdulkadir Celik , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper addresses the problem of distributed hypothesis testing in multi-agent networks, where agents repeatedly collect local observations about an unknown state of the world, and try to collaboratively detect the true state through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Lili Su , Nitin H. Vaidya

We consider a network of agents that locate themselves in an environment through sensor measurements and aim to transmit a message signal to a base station via collaborative beamforming. The agents' sensor measurements result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Erfaun Noorani , Yagiz Savas , Alec Koppel , John Baras , Ufuk Topcu , Brian M. Sadler

In this paper, we present a distributed estimation setup where local agents estimate their states from relative measurements received from their neighbours. In the case of heterogeneous multi-agent systems, where only relative measurements…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingbo Wu , Valery Ugrinovskii , Frank Allgöwer

We propose a distributed positioning algorithm to estimate the unknown positions of a number of target nodes, given distance measurements between target nodes and between target nodes and a number of reference nodes at known positions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Luba Tetruashvili , Erik G. Ström , Yair Censor

In this paper, we study the collaborative state fusion problem in a multi-agent environment, where mobile agents collaborate to track movable targets. Due to the limited sensing range and potential errors of on-board sensors, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tianlong Zhou , Jun Shang , Weixiong Rao

This paper considers the resilient multi-dimensional consensus problem in networked systems, where some of the agents might be malicious (or faulty). We propose a multi-dimensional consensus algorithm, where at each time step each healthy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Jiaqi Yan , Yilin Mo , Xiuxian Li , Changyun Wen

Constrained multi-agent reinforcement learning offers the framework to design scalable and almost surely feasible solutions for teams of agents operating in dynamic environments to carry out conflicting tasks. We address the challenges of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Leopoldo Agorio , Sean Van Alen , Santiago Paternain , Miguel Calvo-Fullana , Juan Andres Bazerque

In this paper, containment control of multi-agent systems with measurement noises is studied under directed networks. When the leaders are stationary, a stochastic approximation type protocol is employed to solve the containment control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Yuanshi Zheng , Tao Li , Long Wang