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Model Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Systems under Limited Communication and Time-Varying Network Topology

Saccani, Danilo  
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Fagiano, Lorenzo
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Zeilinger, Melanie N.
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January 1, 2023
2023 62Nd Ieee Conference On Decision And Control, Cdc
62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our motivation from mobile robot swarms, in this paper, we address this problem by optimizing individual agent performance while guaranteeing persistent constraint satisfaction in presence of bounded communication range and time-varying network topology. The approach we propose is a model predictive control (MPC) formulation, building on multi-trajectory MPC (mt-MPC) concepts. To enable plug and play operations when the system is in closed-loop without the need of a request, the proposed MPC scheme predicts two different state trajectories in the same finite horizon optimal control problem. One trajectory drives the system to the desired target, assuming that the network topology will not change in the prediction horizon, while the second one ensures constraint satisfaction assuming a worst-case scenario in terms of new agents joining the network in the planning horizon. Recursive feasibility and stability of the closed-loop system during plug and play operations are shown. The approach effectiveness is illustrated with a numerical simulation.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383790
Web of Science ID

WOS:001166433803022

Author(s)
Saccani, Danilo  
Fagiano, Lorenzo
Zeilinger, Melanie N.
Carron, Andrea
Corporate authors
IEEE
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2023 62Nd Ieee Conference On Decision And Control, Cdc
ISBN of the book

979-8-3503-0124-3

Start page

3764

End page

3769

Subjects

Technology

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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SCI-STI-GFT  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Singapore, SINGAPORE

DEC 13-15, 2023

FunderGrant Number

Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR)

201732RS94

Swiss National Science Foundation under the NCCR Automation

51NF40_180545

Fondazione Cariplo

2022-2005

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April 3, 2024
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