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In this paper, scalable controller design to achieve output synchronization for a heterogeneous discrete-time nonlinear multi-agent system is considered. The agents are assumed to exhibit potentially nonlinear dynamics but share linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Xin Mao , Dan Wang , Wei Chen , Li Qiu

This paper develops a novel approach to the consensus problem of multi-agent systems by minimizing a weighted state error with neighbor agents via linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Existing consensus control algorithms only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang , Lihua Xie

Motivated by the increasing appeal of robots in information-gathering missions, we study multi-agent path planning problems in which the agents must remain interconnected. We model an area by a topological graph specifying the movement and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Tristan Charrier , Arthur Queffelec , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

We study the problem of inferring communication structures that can solve cooperative multi-agent planning problems while minimizing the amount of communication. We quantify the amount of communication as the maximum degree of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jeevana Priya Inala , Yichen Yang , James Paulos , Yewen Pu , Osbert Bastani , Vijay Kumar , Martin Rinard , Armando Solar-Lezama

This paper focuses on consensus problems for high-order, linear multi-agent systems. Undirected communication topologies and fixed, uniform communication time delay are taken into account. This class of problems has been widely study in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Rudy Cepeda-Gomez

Reaching consensus among states of a multi-agent system is a key requirement for many distributed control/optimization problems. Such a consensus is often achieved using the standard Laplacian matrix (for continuous system) or Perron matrix…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Zheming Wang , Chong Jin Ong

Solving optimization problems in multi-agent systems (MAS) involves information exchange between agents. These solutions must be robust to delays and errors that arise from an unreliable wireless network which typically connects the MAS. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Adrian Redder , Daniel E. Quevedo

For a collection of homogeneous LTI systems that is interconnected by a protocol, given the network topology and the system model, one may obtain a feedback gain to synchronize the network. However, the model-based methods cannot be applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Yongzhang Li , M. Kanat Camlibel

This paper addresses the problem of reaching consensus under input saturation and intermittent communication, which can hinder the convergence of the system. We propose a method that translates the consensus into an equivalent stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Thales C. Silva , M. Ani Hsieh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in completing various tasks. However, solving complex problems often requires the coordination of multiple agents, raising a fundamental question: how to effectively select and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Eric Hanchen Jiang , Levina Li , Rui Sun , Xiao Liang , Yubei Li , Yuchen Wu , Haozheng Luo , Hengli Li , Zhi Zhang , Zhaolu Kang , Kai-Wei Chang , Ying Nian Wu

Large language models (LLMs) have empowered nodes within multi-agent networks with intelligence, showing growing applications in both academia and industry. However, how to prevent these networks from generating malicious information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Miao Yu , Shilong Wang , Guibin Zhang , Junyuan Mao , Chenlong Yin , Qijiong Liu , Qingsong Wen , Kun Wang , Yang Wang

This paper considers the distributed consensus problems for multi-agent systems with general linear and Lipschitz nonlinear dynamics. Distributed relative-state consensus protocols with an adaptive law for adjusting the coupling weights…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Zhongkui Li , Wei Ren , Xiangdong Liu , Mengyin Fu

A consensus system is a linear multi-agent system in which agents communicate to reach a so-called consensus state, defined as the average of the initial states of the agents. Consider a more generalized situation in which each agent is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

We investigate networks of automata that synchronise over common action labels. A graph synchronisation topology between the automata is defined in such a way that two automata are connected iff they can synchronise over an action. We show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Laure Petrucci , Michał Knapik

This paper studies regulated state synchronization of homogeneous networks of non-introspective agents in presence of unknown nonuniform input delays. A scale-free protocol is designed based on additional information exchange, which does…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Zhenwei Liu , Donya Nojavanzadeh , Dmitri Saberi , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel

In this work, we propose a method to decompose signal temporal logic (STL) tasks for multi-agent systems subject to constraints imposed by the communication graph. Specifically, we propose to decompose tasks defined over multiple agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Gregorio Marchesini , Siyuan Liu , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The current paper deals with limited-budget output consensus for descriptor multiagent systems with two types of switching communication topologies; that is, switching connected ones and jointly connected ones. Firstly, a singular dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Jianxiang Xi , Cheng Wang , Xiaojun Yang , Bailong Yang

In this paper, for any homogeneous system of agents with linear continuous time dynamics, we formulate an optimal control problem. In this problem a convex cost functional of the control signals of the agents shall be minimized, while the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Johan Thunberg , Xiaoming Hu

This paper studies global and semi-global regulated state synchronization of homogeneous networks of non-introspective agents in presence of input saturation based on additional information exchange where the reference trajectory is given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Zhenwei Liu , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel , Donya Nojavanzadeh

This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and directed communication graphs. Existing works usually design consensus protocols using the smallest real part of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Zhongkui Li , Guanghui Wen , Zhisheng Duan , Wei Ren