On the control of multi-agent systems: A survey

F Chen, W Ren - Foundations and Trends® in Systems and …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Recent years have witnessed a trend to use networked multiple autonomous agents to
accomplish complex tasks arising from space-based applications, smart grids, and machine …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of structural systems theory

G Ramos, AP Aguiar, S Pequito - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of the research conducted in the context of structural (or
structured) systems. These are parametrized models used to assess and design system …

Controllability and observability of grid graphs via reduction and symmetries

G Notarstefano, G Parlangeli - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the controllability and observability properties of a family of
linear dynamical systems, whose structure is induced by the Laplacian of a grid graph. This …

Distributed estimation approach for tracking a mobile target via formation of UAVs

M Doostmohammadian, A Taghieh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers distributed estimation methods to enable the formation of Unmanned-
Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) that track a moving target. The UAVs (or agents) are equipped with …

Leaders in multi-agent controllability under consensus algorithm and tree topology

Z Ji, H Lin, H Yu - Systems & Control Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
By controllability of multi-agent systems, we mean the property that all agents can be driven
to arbitrary configurations only through regulating a few leaders externally, while the rest of …

Pinning control and synchronization on complex dynamical networks

G Chen - International Journal of Control, Automation and …, 2014 - Springer
This article offers a survey of the recent research advances in pinning control and pinning
synchronization on complex dynamical networks. The emphasis is on research ideas and …

Structural controllability of multi-agent networks: Robustness against simultaneous failures

MA Rahimian, AG Aghdam - Automatica, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, structural controllability of a leader–follower multi-agent system with multiple
leaders is studied from a graph-theoretic point of view. The problem of preservation of …

Controllability of heterogeneous multi-agent systems under directed and weighted topology

Y Guan, Z Ji, L Zhang, L Wang - International Journal of Control, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the controllability problem for both continuous-and discrete-time linear
heterogeneous multi-agent systems with directed and weighted communication topology …

Structural controllability of directed signed networks

Y Guan, A Li, L Wang - IEEE Transactions on Control of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the structural controllability of multiagent networks defined over directed
signed graphs is investigated, where the agents are divided into leaders and followers, and …

Leader localization in multi-agent systems subject to failure: A graph-theoretic approach

S Jafari, A Ajorlou, AG Aghdam - Automatica, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, structural controllability of a leader–follower multi-agent system with multiple
leaders is studied. A graphical condition for structural controllability based on the information …