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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chao Zhai , Pengyang Fan

This article introduces a decentralized robust optimization framework for safe multi-agent control under uncertainty. Although stochastic noise has been the primary form of modeling uncertainty in such systems, these formulations might fall…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Arshiya Taj Abdul , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In formation control, an ensemble of autonomous agents is required to stabilize at a given configuration in the plane, doing so while agents are allowed to observe only a subset of the ensemble. As such, formation control provides a rich…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-07 M. -A. Belabbas

In this work, we study an optimal control problem for a multi-agent system modeled by an undirected formation graph with nodes describing the kinematics of each agent, given by a left-invariant control system on a Lie group. The agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Leonardo Colombo , Dimos Dimarogonas

This paper addresses the problem of distance- and orientation-based formation control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in 3D space, under static and undirected communication topologies. More specifically, we design a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Alexandros Nikou , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper investigates a distributed goal assignment problem in leader-following formation control of second-order multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent can communicate with nearby agents within the communication range and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Yun Ho Choi , Doik Kim

In formation control, triangular formations consisting of three autonomous agents serve as a class of benchmarks that can be used to test and compare the performances of different controllers. We present an algorithm that combines the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Hector Garcia de Marina , Zhiyong Sun , Ming Cao , Brian D. O. Anderson

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework that enables controllable and diverse player behaviors without relying on human gameplay data. Existing approaches often require large-scale player trajectories, train separate models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Atahan Cilan , Atay Özgövde

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 considers the distributed leader-follower stress-matrix-based affine formation control problem of discrete-time linear multi-agent systems with static and dynamic leaders. In leader-follower multi-agent formation control, the aim…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Okechi Onuoha , Suleiman Kurawa , Zezhi Tang , Yi Dong

This paper considers a leader-following formation control problem for heterogeneous, second-order, uncertain, input-affine, nonlinear multi-agent systems modeled by a directed graph. A tunable, three-layer neural network (NN) is proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Kiarash Aryankia , Rastko R. Selmic

This paper seeks to combine differential game theory with the actor-critic-identifier architecture to determine forward-in-time, approximate optimal controllers for formation tracking in multi-agent systems, where the agents have uncertain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Justin R. Klotz , Patrick Walters , Warren E. Dixon

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

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

This paper presents the overall design of a multi-agent framework for tuning the performance of an application executing in a distributed environment. The multi-agent framework provides services like resource brokering, analyzing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-13 Sarbani Roy , Saikat Halder , Nandini Mukherjee

This paper addresses the problem of position- and orientation-based formation control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in a $3$D workspace with obstacles. More specifically, we design a decentralized control protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Christos K. Verginis , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper addresses the problem of composite synchronization and learning control in a network of multi-agent robotic manipulator systems with heterogeneous nonlinear uncertainties under a leader-follower framework. A novel two-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Emadodin Jandaghi , Dalton L. Stein , Adam Hoburg , Paolo Stegagno , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

This paper considers the distributed robust control problems of uncertain linear multi-agent systems with undirected communication topologies. It is assumed that the agents have identical nominal dynamics while subject to different…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Lihua Xie , Xiangdong Liu

Formation strategy is one of the most important parts of many multi-agent systems with many applications in real world problems. In this paper, a framework for learning this task in a limited domain (restricted environment) is proposed. In…

The movement of cooperative robots in a densely cluttered environment may not be possible if the formation type is invariant. Hence, we investigate a new method for time-varying formation control for a group of heterogeneous autonomous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Vu Phi Tran , Matthew Garratt , Ian R. Petersen