Advances in Multi-Robot Systems and Autonomous Navigation

The field of multi-robot systems and autonomous navigation is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing innovative control strategies and algorithms to ensure safe and efficient operation in complex environments. Recent research has emphasized the importance of resilience, adaptability, and risk-awareness in multi-robot systems, with a particular emphasis on addressing challenges such as misbehaving agents, localization uncertainty, and dynamic obstacles. Notable developments include the use of control barrier functions, belief control barrier functions, and risk-adaptive approaches to ensure safety and avoid collisions in uncertain environments. Additionally, there is a growing interest in distributed optimal control methods, including graph neural network-based approaches, to enable efficient and adaptive control of multi-robot systems. Overall, these advancements have the potential to significantly improve the performance and reliability of multi-robot systems and autonomous navigation in a wide range of applications. Noteworthy papers include: Distributed Resilience-Aware Control in Multi-Robot Networks, which proposes a novel control law for resilient consensus in multi-robot systems, and Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions, which introduces a risk-adaptive approach to safe navigation in dynamic environments.

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Distributed Resilience-Aware Control in Multi-Robot Networks

Distributed Linear Quadratic Gaussian for Multi-Robot Coordination with Localization Uncertainty

Risk-Aware Robot Control in Dynamic Environments Using Belief Control Barrier Functions

ChronoSync: A Decentralized Chronometer Synchronization Protocol for Multi-Agent Systems

BayesCPF: Enabling Collective Perception in Robot Swarms with Degrading Sensors

Hybrid Control Barrier Functions for Nonholonomic Multi-Agent Systems

SAP-CoPE: Social-Aware Planning using Cooperative Pose Estimation with Infrastructure Sensor Nodes

Robust and Efficient Average Consensus with Non-Coherent Over-the-Air Aggregation

Hybrid Control as a Proxy for Detection and Mitigation of Sensor Attacks in Cooperative Driving

Linear Regulator-Based Synchronization of Positive Multi-Agent Systems

Collision-free landing of multiple UAVs on moving ground vehicles using time-varying control barrier functions

Extended Version: Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Cooperative Localization

DBaS-Log-MPPI: Efficient and Safe Trajectory Optimization via Barrier States

Graph Neural Network-Based Distributed Optimal Control for Linear Networked Systems: An Online Distributed Training Approach

Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions

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