Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges

K Garg, S Zhang, O So, C Dawson, C Fan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In this survey, we review the recent advances in control design methods for robotic multi-
agent systems (MAS), focusing on learning-based methods with safety considerations. We …

Physics-informed machine learning for modeling and control of dynamical systems

TX Nghiem, J Drgoňa, C Jones, Z Nagy… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically
integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract …

Multi-agent partial observable safe reinforcement learning for counter uncrewed aerial systems

JE Pierre, X Sun, R Fierro - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of small uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) poses many threats to airspace
systems and critical infrastructures. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in …

Robust mader: Decentralized multiagent trajectory planner robust to communication delay in dynamic environments

K Kondo, R Figueroa, J Rached… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication delays can be catastrophic for multiagent systems. However, most existing
state-of-the-art multiagent trajectory planners assume perfect communication and therefore …

Safe multi-agent reinforcement learning for formation control without individual reference targets

M Dawood, S Pan, N Dengler, S Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, formation control of unmanned vehicles has received considerable interest,
driven by the progress in autonomous systems and the imperative for multiple vehicles to …

Safe and efficient multi-agent collision avoidance with physics-informed reinforcement learning

P Feng, R Shi, S Wang, J Liang, X Yu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in addressing multi-agent collision
avoidance challenges. However, existing RL-based methods often suffer from low training …

Distributionally robust CVaR-based safety filtering for motion planning in uncertain environments

S Safaoui, TH Summers - 2024 IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is a core challenge of autonomous robot motion planning, especially in the presence
of dynamic and uncertain obstacles. Many recent results use learning and deep learning …

Decentralized, Safe, Multiagent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning

AP Vinod, S Safaoui, TH Summers… - … on Control Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a decentralized, multiagent motion planner that guarantees the probabilistic
safety of a team subject to stochastic uncertainty in the agent model and environment. Our …

Safe motion planning and formation control of quadruped robots

Z Ji, Y Dong - Autonomous Intelligent Systems, 2024 - Springer
This paper introduces a motion planning and cooperative formation control approach for
quadruped robots and multi-agent systems. First, in order to improve the efficiency and …

Strategic Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Domains: A Weighted Potential Dynamic Game Approach

M Bhatt, N Mehr - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.05876, 2023 - arxiv.org
In interactive multi-agent settings, decision-making complexity arises from agents'
interconnected objectives. Dynamic game theory offers a formal framework for analyzing …