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A Continuous-Time Violation-Free Multiagent Optimization Algorithm and Its Applications to Safe Distributed Control

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Xiao Tan
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Changxin Liu
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Karl Henrik Johansson
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Dimos V. Dimarogonas
DOI:10.1109/TAC.2025.3539332delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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In this work, we propose a continuous-time distributed optimization algorithm with guaranteed zero coupling constraint violation and apply it to safe distributed control in the presence of multiple control barrier functions (CBFs). The optimization problem is defined over a network that collectively minimizes a separable cost function with coupled linear constraints. An equivalent optimization problem with auxiliary decision variables and a decoupling structure is proposed. A sensitivity analysis demonstrates that the subgradient information can be computed using local information. This then leads to a subgradient algorithm for updating the auxiliary variables. A case with sparse coupling constraints is further considered, and it is shown to have better memory and communication efficiency. For the specific case of a CBF-induced time-varying quadratic program (QP), an update law is proposed that achieves finite-time convergence. Numerical results involving a static resource allocation problem and a safe coordination problem for a multiagent system demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed algorithms.
Keywords:
Control barrier functions
constrained control
decentralized control
optimization algorithms

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IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control cover
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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