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Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

We propose a new distributed optimization algorithm for solving a class of constrained optimization problems in which (a) the objective function is separable (i.e., the sum of local objective functions of agents), (b) the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Van Sy Mai , Richard J. La , Tao Zhang , Abdella Battou

Controllers with a diagonal-plus-low-rank structure constitute a scalable class of controllers for multi-agent systems. Previous research has shown that diagonal-plus-low-rank control laws appear as the optimal solution to a class of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Daria Madjidian , Leonid Mirkin , Anders Rantzer

We consider a dynamically decoupled network of agents each with a local output-feedback controller. We assume each agent is a node in a directed acyclic graph and the controllers share information along the edges in order to cooperatively…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Mruganka Kashyap , Laurent Lessard

We present a sequential distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme for cooperative control of multi-agent systems with dynamically decoupled heterogeneous nonlinear agents subject to individual constraints. In the scheme, we explore…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Matthias Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This paper analyzes distributed control protocols for first- and second-order networked dynamical systems. We propose a class of nonlinear consensus controllers where the input of each agent can be written as a product of a nonlinear gain,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Martin Andreasson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we consider a coordination problem for a class of heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems with a prescribed input-output behavior which was represented by another input-driven system. In contrast to most existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Yutao Tang

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. A novel distributed continuous-time state feedback controller is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji , Xinghu Wang

A key issue in the control of distributed discrete systems modeled as Markov decisions processes, is that often the state of the system is not directly observable at any single location in the system. The participants in the control scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jie Ren , Solmaz Torabi , John MacLaren Walsh

This paper proposes a fully distributed termination method for distributed optimization algorithms solved by multiple agents. The proposed method guarantees terminating a distributed optimization algorithm after satisfying the global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Mohannad Alkhraijah , Daniel K. Molzahn

In this paper, a distributed velocity-constrained consensus problem is studied for discrete-time multi-agent systems, where each agent's velocity is constrained to lie in a nonconvex set. A distributed constrained control algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Peng Lin , Wei Ren , Huijun Gao

This paper investigates large-population stochastic control problems in which agents share their state information and cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. The latter is decomposed into individual and coupling costs, with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Elise Devey

In this paper, a time-varying distributed convex optimization problem is studied for continuous-time multi-agent systems. Control algorithms are designed for the cases of single-integrator and double-integrator dynamics. Two discontinuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

This paper introduces a new approach that leverages Multi-agent Bayesian Optimization (MABO) to design Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) schemes for multi-agent systems. The primary objective is to learn optimal DMPC schemes even…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Hossein Nejatbakhsh Esfahani , Kai Liu , Javad Mohammadpour Velni

This paper presents a distributed voltage regulation method based on multi-agent system control and network self-organization for a large distribution network. The network autonomously organizes itself into small subnetworks through the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Badr Al Faiya , Dimitrios Athanasiadis , Minjiang Chen , Stephen McArthur , Ivana Kockar , Haowei Lu , Francisco de Leon

This paper proposes an adaptive tracking control with prescribed performance function for distributive cooperative control of highly nonlinear multi-agent systems. The use of such approach confines the tracking error within a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Hashim A. Hashim , Sami El-Ferik , Frank L. Lewis

Resource allocation and scheduling in multi-agent systems present challenges due to complex interactions and decentralization. This survey paper provides a comprehensive analysis of distributed algorithms for addressing the distributed…

In this paper, we focus on the distributed quantized average consensus problem in open multi-agent systems consisting of communication links that change dynamically over time. Open multi-agent systems exhibiting the aforementioned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Jiaqi Hu , Karl H. Johansson , Apostolos I. Rikos

This paper studies the distributed control and estimation of multi-agent systems based on bearing information. In particular, we consider two problems: (i) the distributed control of bearing-constrained formations using relative position…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Shiyu Zhao , Daniel Zelazo

Distributed online optimization and game have been increasingly researched in the last decade, mostly motivated by its wide applications in sensor networks, robotics (e.g., distributed target tracking and formation control), smart grids,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Na Li