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 …

Social learning and distributed hypothesis testing

A Lalitha, T Javidi, AD Sarwate - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a problem of distributed hypothesis testing over a network. Individual
nodes in a network receive noisy local (private) observations whose distribution is …

Multi-agent consensus with relative-state-dependent measurement noises

T Li, F Wu, JF Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this note, the distributed consensus corrupted by relative-state-dependent measurement
noises is considered. Each agent can measure or receive its neighbors' state information …

Approximate consensus in stochastic networks with application to load balancing

N Amelina, A Fradkov, Y Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is devoted to the approximate consensus problem for stochastic networks of
nonlinear agents with switching topology, noisy, and delayed information about agent states …

Consensus conditions of continuous-time multi-agent systems with time-delays and measurement noises

X Zong, T Li, JF Zhang - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This work is concerned with stochastic consensus conditions of multi-agent systems with
both time-delays and measurement noises. For the case of additive noises, we develop …

An overview of research in distributed attitude coordination control

L Ma, H Min, S Wang, Y Liu… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides an overview of attitude coordination problems of multi-rigid-body with
the goal of promoting research in this area. Theoretical results regarding consensus seeking …

Cooperative multi-agent bandits with heavy tails

A Dubey - International conference on machine learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the heavy-tailed stochastic bandit problem in the cooperative multi-agent setting,
where a group of agents interact with a common bandit problem, while communicating on a …

Consensus conditions of continuous-time multi-agent systems with additive and multiplicative measurement noises

X Zong, T Li, JF Zhang - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2018 - SIAM
This work is concerned with the consensus problem of multi-agent systems with additive and
multiplicative measurement noises. By developing general stochastic stability lemmas for …

Distributed detection and estimation in wireless sensor networks

S Barbarossa, S Sardellitti, P Di Lorenzo - Academic Press Library in Signal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming more and more a pervasive tool to monitor
a wide range of physical phenomena. The opportunities arising from the many potential …

Design and analysis of distributed averaging with quantized communication

M El Chamie, J Liu, T Başar - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed averaging (also known as average consensus) is an algorithm that builds on
neighbor to neighbor interactions with the ultimate goal of convergence to the average of all …