COORDINATION AND CONTROL OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

This course is for undergraduate and graduate students.

Multi-agent systems, or networked dynamic systems, are systems composed of dynamic units that interact with each other over an information exchange network. These systems can be used to perform team objectives with applications ranging from formation flying to distributed computation. Challenges associated with these systems are their analysis and synthesis, arising due to their decoupled, distributed, large-scale nature, and due to limited inter-agent sensing and communication capabilities. This course provides an introduction to these systems via tools from graph theory, dynamic systems theory, and optimization. The course will cover a variety of modeling techniques for different types of networked systems and proceed to show how their properties, such as stability and performance, can be analyzed.

The course will also explore techniques for designing these systems, including distributed control strategies, and optimization methods for network design. The course will also cover real-world applications by presenting recent results obtained in the distributed formation control of multi-robot systems.

SEMESTER START DATE: October 29, 2025

Contact Hours per Week: 3

Day & Time: To Be Announced, via Zoom (Israeli Time which is one hour ahead of Germany, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands; same time zone as Estonia)

This course provides an introduction to these systems via tools from graph theory, dynamic systems theory, and optimization.

Grading Policy Homeworks: - There will be 4-6 homework assignments to be completed outside the class. This semester the homeworks will not be graded. Solutions will be provided and students are expected to solve them in order to be prepared for the midterm and final projects.

Midterm Project: 40% - A take-home project will be given at approximately the half-way mark of the course. Projects must be completed independently (no team effort, no discussions).

Final Project: 60% - Written Project with more details to follow.

Control Theory

Lectures