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Multi-agent Coordination Under Temporal Logic Tasks and Team-Wise Intermittent Communication
Junjie Wang, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li
Multi-agent systems outperform single agent in complex collaborative tasks. However, in large-scale scenarios, ensuring timely information exchange during decentralized task execut…
Fast and Adaptive Multi-agent Planning under Collaborative Temporal Logic Tasks via Poset Products
Zesen Liu, Meng Guo, Weimin Bao +1
Efficient coordination and planning is essential for large-scale multi-agent systems that collaborate in a shared dynamic environment. Heuristic search methods or learning-based ap…
Observation of Periodic Systems: Bridge Centralized Kalman Filtering and Consensus-Based Distributed Filtering
Jiachen Qian, Zhisheng Duan, Peihu Duan +1
Compared with linear time invariant systems, linear periodic system can describe the periodic processes arising from nature and engineering more precisely. However, the time-varyin…
Roto-Translation Invariant Formation of Fixed-Wing UAVs in 3D: Feasibility and Control
Xiaodong He, Zhongkui Li, Xiangke Wang +1
This paper investigates the formation of fixed-wing UAVs in 3D, which communicate via a directed acyclic graph. Different from common formation problems, we consider the roto-trans…
Hierarchical Motion Planning under Probabilistic Temporal Tasks and Safe-Return Constraints
Meng Guo, Tianjun Liao, Junjie Wang +1
Safety is crucial for robotic missions within an uncertain environment. Common safety requirements such as collision avoidance are only state-dependent, which can be restrictive fo…
A Novel Vector-Field-Based Motion Planning Algorithm for 3D Nonholonomic Robots
Xiaodong He, Weijia Yao, Zhiyong Sun +1
This paper focuses on the motion planning for mobile robots in 3D, which are modelled by 6-DOF rigid body systems with nonholonomic kinematics constraints. We not only specify the…
DiscreteCommunication and ControlUpdating in Event-Triggered Consensus
Bin Cheng, Yuezu Lv, Zhongkui Li +1
This paper studies the consensus control problem faced with three essential demands, namely, discrete control updating for each agent, discrete-time communications among neighborin…
Minimal-order Appointed-time Unknown Input Observers: Design and Applications
Yuezu Lv, Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan
This paper presents a framework on minimal-order appointed-time unknown input observers for linear systems based on the pairwise observer structure. A minimal-order appointed-time…
Multi-Robot Trajectory Planning with Feasibility Guarantee and Deadlock Resolution: An Obstacle-Dense Environment
Yuda Chen, Chenghan Wang, Meng Guo +1
This article presents a multi-robot trajectory planning method which not only guarantees optimization feasibility and but also resolves deadlocks in obstacle-dense environments. Th…
Simultaneous Position and Orientation Planning of Nonholonomic Multi-Robot Systems: A Dynamic Vector Field Approach
Xiaodong He, Zhongkui Li
This paper considers the simultaneous position and orientation planning of nonholonomic multirobot systems. Different from common researches which only focus on final position cons…
Time Minimization and Online Synchronization for Multi-agent Systems under Collaborative Temporal Tasks
Zesen Liu, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li
Multi-agent systems can be extremely efficient when solving a team-wide task in a concurrent manner. However, without proper synchronization, the correctness of the combined behavi…
Distributed Optimal Control with Recovered Robustness for Uncertain Network Systems: A Complementary Design Approach
Zhongkui Li, Junjie Jiao, Xiang Chen
This paper considers the distributed robust suboptimal consensus control problem of linear multi-agent systems, with both H2 and H_infty performance requirements. A novel two-step…
An Operator-Theoretic Approach to Robust Event-Triggered Control of Network Systems with Frequency-Domain Uncertainties
Shiqi Zhang, Zhongkui Li
In this paper, we study the robustness of the event-triggered consensus algorithms against frequency-domain uncertainties. It is revealed that the sampling errors resulted by event…
Robust Event-Based Control: Bridge Time-Domain Triggering and Frequency-Domain Uncertainties
Shiqi Zhang, Zhongkui Li
This paper considers the robustness of event-triggered control of general linear systems against additive or multiplicative frequency-domain uncertainties. It is revealed that in s…
Deadlock Resolution and Recursive Feasibility in MPC-based Multi-robot Trajectory Generation
Yuda Chen, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li
Online collision-free trajectory generation within a shared workspace is fundamental for most multi-robot applications. However, many widely-used methods based on model predictive…
Privacy-Preserved Average Consensus Algorithms with Edge-based Additive Perturbations
Yi Xiong, Zhongkui Li
In this paper, we consider the privacy preservation problem in both discrete- and continuous-time average consensus algorithms with strongly connected and balanced graphs, against…
Distributed adaptive stabilization
Zhiyong Sun, Anders Rantzer, Zhongkui Li +1
In this paper we consider distributed adaptive stabilization for uncertain multivariable linear systems with a time-varying diagonal matrix gain. We show that uncertain multivariab…
Event-Triggered Consensus of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems with Jointly Connected Switching Topologies
Bin Cheng, Xiangke Wang, Zhongkui Li
This paper investigates the distributed event-based consensus problem of switching networks satisfying the jointly connected condition. Both the state consensus of homogeneous line…
Fully Distributed Event-Triggered Protocols for Linear Multi-Agent Networks
Bin Cheng, Zhongkui Li
This paper considers the distributed event-triggered consensus problem for general linear multi-agent networks. Both the leaderless and leader-follower consensus problems are consi…
Robust Consensus for Multi-Agent Systems Communicating over Stochastic Uncertain Networks
Zhongkui Li, Jie Chen
In this paper, we study the robust consensus problem for a set of discrete-time linear agents to coordinate over an uncertain communication network, which is to achieve consensus a…
Distributed Average Tracking for Multiple Signals Generated by Linear Dynamical Systems: An Edge-based Framework
Yu Zhao, Yongfang Liu, Zhongkui Li +1
This paper studies the distributed average tracking problem for multiple time-varying signals generated by linear dynamics, whose reference inputs are nonzero and not available to…
Novel Distributed Robust Adaptive Consensus Protocols for Linear Multi-agent Systems with Directed Graphs and External Disturbances
Yuezu Lv, Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan +1
This paper addresses the distributed consensus protocol design problem for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs and external unmatched disturbances. A novel distributed…
Fully Distributed Adaptive Output Feedback Protocols for Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Directed Graphs: A Sequential Observer Design Approach
Yuezu Lv, Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan +1
This paper studies output feedback consensus protocol design problems for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs. We consider both leaderless and leader-follower consensus…
Fully Distributed Adaptive Controllers for Cooperative Output Regulation of Heterogeneous Linear Multi-agent Systems with Directed Graphs
Zhongkui Li, Michael Z. Q. Chen, Zhengtao Ding
This paper considers the cooperative output regulation problem for linear multi-agent systems with a directed communication graph, heterogeneous linear subsystems, and an exosystem…