Multi-Agent Systems: Final project materials

Paper Topics

Consensus and Synchronization

• Y. Hatano and M. Mesbahi, Agreement over Random Networks.
• A. Das, Y. Hatano, and M. Mesbahi, Agreement over noisy networks.
• W. Ren, On consensus algorithms for double-integrator dynamics.
• P. Wieland, R. Sepulchre, and F. Allgower, An internal model principle is necessary and sufficient for linear output synchronization.
• A. Jadbabaie, N. Motee, and M. Barahona, On the stability of the Kuramoto Model of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators.

Networks as Systems

• M. Mesbahi, On state-dependent dynamic graphs and their controllability properties.
• S. Tonetti and R. Murray Limits on the network sensitivity function for multi-agent systems on a graph.
• B. Briegel, D. Zelazo, M. Buerger, and F. Allgower On the Zeros of Consensus Networks.
• A. Rahmani, M. Ji, M. Mesbahi, and M. Egerstedt, Controllability of multi-agent systems from a graph-theoretic perspective.
• D. Zelazo and M. Mesbahi, Edge Agreement: Graph-Theoretic Bounds and Passivity Analysis.

Relative Sensing Networks

• J. Sandhu, M. Mesbahi, and T. Tsukamaki, On the control and estimation over relative sensing networks.
• R. Smith and F. Hadaegh Closed-loop dynamics of cooperative vehicle formations with parallel estimators and communication.

Passivity

• M. Arcak, Passivity as a Design Tool for Group Coordination.
• N. Chopra and M. Spong, Passivity-Based Control of Multi-Agent Systems.
• N. Chopra, M. Spong, and R. Lozano, Synchronization of bilateral teleoperators with time delay.
• C. Belta and V. Kumar, Abstraction and Control for Groups of Robots.
• R. Ortega, A. van der Schaft, I. Mareels and B. Maschke, Putting Energy Back in Control.
• P. Robuffo Giordano, A. Franchi, C. Secchi, and Heinrich H. Bulthoff, Experiments of Passivity-Based Bilateral Aerial Teleoperation of a Group of UAVs with Decentralized Velocity Synchronization.
• C. Secchi, A. Franchi, and Heinrich H. Bulthoff, and P. Robuffo Giordano, Bilateral Teleoperation of a Group of UAVs with Communication Delays and Switching Topology.

Connectivity Maintenance in Multi-agent Systems

• D. Dimarogonas and K. Kyriakopoulos, Connectedness Preserving Distributed Swarm Aggregation for Multiple Kinematic Robots.
• P. Yang, R. Freeman, G. Gordon, K. Lynch, S. Srinivasa, and R. Sukthankar, Decentralized estimation and control of graph connectivity for mobile sensor networks.
• M. Ji and M. Egerstedt, Distributed Coordination Control of Multiagent Systems while Preserving Connectedness.
• J. Lawton, R. Beard, and B. Young. A decentralized approach to formation maneuvers.
• R. Olfati-Saber and R. Murray. Graph Rigidity and Distributed Formation Stabilization of Multi-Vehicle Systems.
• P. Robuffo Giordano, A. Franchi, C. Secchi, and Heinrich H. Bulthoff, Bilateral Teleoperation of Groups of UAVs with Decentralized Connectivity Maintenance.

Network Synthesis

• J. Sun, S. Boyd, L. Xiao, and P. Diaconis, The Fastest Mixing Markov Process on a Graph and a Connection to a Maximum Variance Unfolding Problem.
• A. Ghosh and S. Boyd, Growing well-connected graphs.
• Y. Kim and M. Mesbahi, On maximizing the second smallest eigenvalue of a state-dependent graph Laplacian.
• D. Zelazo, S. Schuler, and F. Allgower, Performance and Design of Cycles in Consensus Networks.

Power Networks

• F. Doerfler and F. Bullo, Synchronization and Transient Stability in Power Networks and Non-Uniform Kuramoto Oscillators. (short)
• S. Bolognani and S. Zampieri, A gossip-like distributed optimization algorithm for reactive power flow control.