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This paper proposes a decentralized controller for large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances, where agents must satisfy Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications requiring cooperation among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose decentralized k-hop Prescribed Performance State and Input Observers for heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances. In the proposed input/state observer, each agent estimates the state and input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose a distributed control strategy to allow the control of a multi-agent system requiring k-hop interactions based on the design of distributed state and input observers. In particular, we design for each agent a finite time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper presents control strategies based on time-varying convergent higher order control barrier functions for a class of leader-follower multi-agent systems under signal temporal logic (STL) tasks. Each agent is assigned a local STL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Maryam Sharifi , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In future intelligent transportation systems, networked vehicles coordinate with each other to achieve safe operations based on an assumption that communications among vehicles and infrastructure are reliable. Traditional methods usually…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Zhiyu Liu , Bo Wu , Jin Dai , Hai Lin

We consider the problem of decomposing a global task assigned to a multi-agent system, expressed as a formula within a fragment of Signal Temporal Logic (STL), under range-limited communication. Given a global task expressed as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Gregorio Marchesini , Siyuan Liu , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper addresses the control synthesis of heterogeneous stochastic linear multi-agent systems with real-time allocation of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Based on previous work, we decompose specifications into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Maico H. W. Engelaar , Zengjie Zhang , Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Mircea Lazar , Sofie Haesaert

This paper presents a spatiotemporal tube (STT)-based control framework for satisfying Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in unknown control-affine systems. We formulate STL constraints as a robust optimization problem (ROP) and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Ratnangshu Das , Subhodeep Choudhury , Pushpak Jagtap

Motivated by the recent interest in formal methods-based control for dynamic robots, we discuss the applicability of prescribed performance control to nonlinear systems subject to signal temporal logic specifications. Prescribed performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lars Lindemann , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose a framework for the decentralized control of a team of agents that are assigned local tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. Each local LTL task specification captures both the requirements on the respective…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Signal temporal logic (STL) provides a user-friendly interface for defining complex tasks for robotic systems. Recent efforts aim at designing control laws or using reinforcement learning methods to find policies which guarantee…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Peter Varnai , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The paper focuses on designing a controller for unknown dynamical multi-agent systems to achieve temporal reach-avoid-stay tasks for each agent while preventing inter-agent collisions. The main objective is to generate a spatiotemporal tube…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ahan Basu , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

Adaptive cooperative tracking control with prescribed performance function (PPF) is proposed for high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The tracking error originally within a known large set is confined to a smaller predefined set using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Hashim A Hashim

We propose a distributed control and coordination strategy for multi-agent systems where each agent has a local task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula and at the same time is subject to relative-distance constraints with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Meng Guo , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper focuses on the problem of distributed consensus control of multi-agent systems while considering two main practical concerns (i) stochastic noise in the agent dynamics and (ii) predefined performance constraints over evolutions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Pushpak Jagtap , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formal language over continuous-time signals (such as trajectories of a multi-agent system) that allows for the specification of complex spatial and temporal system requirements (such as staying sufficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Joris Verhagen , Lars Lindemann , Jana Tumova

A finite-time protocol for a multi-agent systems (MASs) can guarantee the convergence of every agent in a finite time interval in contrast to the asymptotic convergence, but the settling time depends on the initial condition and design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Gewei Zuo , Lijun Zhu , Yujuan Wang , Zhiyong Chen

This paper presents a decentralized control framework that incorporates social awareness into multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics to achieve prescribed-time reach-avoid-stay tasks in dynamic environments. Each agent is assigned a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Siddhartha Upadhyay , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

We tackle the challenging problem of multi-agent cooperative motion planning for complex tasks described using signal temporal logic (STL), where robots can have nonlinear and nonholonomic dynamics. Existing methods in multi-agent motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Dawei Sun , Jingkai Chen , Sayan Mitra , Chuchu Fan

Motivated by the recent interest in formal methods-based control of multi-agent systems, we adopt a bottom-up approach. Each agent is subject to a local signal temporal logic task that may depend on other agents behavior. These dependencies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas
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