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Normalizing Flow-Enhanced Message Passing for Multirobot Collaborative Localization
Han Shen, Guanghui Wen, Liangming Chen +1
Accurate, robust, and adaptive localization is essential for various robotic operations. This paper proposes a new message passing (MP) algorithm for realizing collaborative locali…
Evolutionary dynamics under periodic switching of update rules on regular networks
Shengxian Wang, Weijia Yao, Ming Cao +1
Microscopic strategy update rules play an important role in the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation among interacting agents on complex networks. Many previous related works only…
Discrete-time Layered-network Epidemics Model with Time-varying Transition Rates and Multiple Resources
Shaoxuan Cui, Fangzhou Liu, Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov +1
This paper studies a discrete-time time-varying multi-layer networked SIWS (susceptible-infected-water-susceptible) model with multiple resources under both single-virus and compet…
Limit Cycles Analysis and Control of Evolutionary Game Dynamics with Environmental Feedback
Lulu Gong, Weijia Yao, Jian Gao +1
Recently, an evolutionary game dynamics model taking into account the environmental feedback has been proposed to describe the co-evolution of strategic actions of a population of…
Topological Analysis of Vector-Field Guided Path Following on Manifolds
Weijia Yao, Bohuan Lin, Brian D. O. Anderson +1
A path-following control algorithm enables a system's trajectories under its guidance to converge to and evolve along a given geometric desired path. There exist various such algor…
Optimal policy design to mitigate epidemics on networks using an SIS model
Carlo Cenedese, Lorenzo Zino, Michele Cucuzzella +1
Understanding how to effectively control an epidemic spreading on a network is a problem of paramount importance for the scientific community. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has hig…
Different Environment Feedback in Fast-slow Eco-evolutionary Dynamics
Lulu Gong, Ming Cao
The fast-slow dynamics of an eco-evolutionary system are studied, where we consider the feedback actions of environmental resources that are classified into those that are self-ren…
Robust optimal policies for team Markov games
Feng Huang, Ming Cao, Long Wang
In stochastic dynamic environments, team Markov games have emerged as a versatile paradigm for studying sequential decision-making problems of fully cooperative multi-agent systems…
Exerting Control in Repeated Social Dilemmas with Thresholds
Kathinka Frieswijk, Alain Govaert, Ming Cao
Situations in which immediate self-interest and long-term collective interest conflict often require some form of influence to prevent them from leading to undesirable or unsustain…
Analysis, Prediction, and Control of Epidemics: A Survey from Scalar to Dynamic Network Models
Lorenzo Zino, Ming Cao
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models of epidemic spreading have emerged as powerful tools to produce valuable predictions of the evolution of the pandemic, hel…
Highway Traffic Control via Smart e-Mobility -- Part II: Dutch A13 Case Study
Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen +2
In this paper, we study how to alleviate highway traffic congestions by encouraging plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles to stop at charging stations around peak congestion times.…
Highway Traffic Control via Smart e-Mobility -- Part I: Theory
Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen +2
In this paper, we study how to alleviate highway traffic congestion by encouraging plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles to stop at a charging station around peak congestion times.…
Stability of Remote Synchronization in Star Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators
Yuzhen Qin, Yu Kawano, Ming Cao
Synchrony of neuronal ensembles is believed to facilitate information exchange among cortical regions in the human brain. Recently, it has been observed that distant brain areas wh…
A two-layer model for coevolving opinion dynamics and collective decision-making in complex social systems
Lorenzo Zino, Mengbin Ye, Ming Cao
Motivated by the literature on opinion dynamics and evolutionary game theory, we propose a novel mathematical framework to model the intertwined coevolution of opinions and decisio…
Singularity-free Guiding Vector Field for Robot Navigation
Weijia Yao, Hector Garcia de Marina, Bohuan Lin +1
Most of the existing path-following navigation algorithms cannot guarantee global convergence to desired paths or enable following self-intersected desired paths due to the existen…
Forced variational integrator for distance-based shape control with flocking behavior of multi-agent systems
Leonardo Colombo, Patricio Moreno, Mengbin Ye +2
A multi-agent system designed to achieve distance-based shape control with flocking behavior can be seen as a mechanical system described by a Lagrangian function and subject to ad…
Game-theoretic modeling of collective decision-making during epidemics
Mengbin Ye, Lorenzo Zino, Alessandro Rizzo +1
The spreading dynamics of an epidemic and the collective behavioral pattern of the population over which it spreads are deeply intertwined and the latter can critically shape the o…
Learning enables adaptation in cooperation for multi-player stochastic games
Feng Huang, Ming Cao, Long Wang
Interactions among individuals in natural populations often occur in a dynamically changing environment. Understanding the role of environmental variation in population dynamics ha…
An asynchronous distributed and scalable generalized Nash equilibrium seeking algorithm for strongly monotone games
Carlo Cenedese, Giuseppe Belgioioso, Sergio Grammatico +1
In this paper, we present three distributed algorithms to solve a class of generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) seeking problems in strongly monotone games. The first one (SD-GENO) i…
Vector Field Guided Path Following Control: Singularity Elimination and Global Convergence
Weijia Yao, Hector Garcia de Marina, Ming Cao
Vector field guided path following (VF-PF) algorithms are fundamental in robot navigation tasks, but may not deliver the desirable performance when robots encounter singular points…
Mediated Remote Synchronization of Kuramoto-Sakaguchi Oscillators: the Number of Mediators Matters
Yuzhen Qin, Ming Cao, Brian D. O. Anderson +2
Cortical regions without direct neuronal connections have been observed to exhibit synchronized dynamics. A recent empirical study has further revealed that such regions that share…
Geometric analysis of Oscillations in the Frzilator model
Hadi Taghvafard, Hildeberto Jardon-Kojakhmetov, Peter Szmolyan +1
A biochemical oscillator model, describing developmental stage of myxobacteria, is analyzed mathematically. Observations from numerical simulations show that in a certain range of…
Analysis of a Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics Model with Biased Assimilation
Weiguo Xia, Mengbin Ye, Ji Liu +2
This paper analyzes a nonlinear opinion dynamics model which generalizes the DeGroot model by introducing a bias parameter for each individual. The original DeGroot model is recove…
Time-varying constrained proximal type dynamics in multi-agent network games
Carlo Cenedese, Giuseppe Belgioioso, Sergio Grammatico +1
In this paper, we study multi-agent network games subject to affine time-varying coupling constraints and a time-varying communication network. We focus on the class of games adopt…