Publications - Multi-agent systems and control

Bart De Schutter


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  1. B. De Schutter, S.P. Hoogendoorn, H. Schuurman, and S. Stramigioli, "A multi-agent case-based traffic control scenario evaluation system," Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'03), Shanghai, China, pp. 678-683, Oct. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  2. R.T. van Katwijk, P. van Koningsbruggen, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "A test bed for multi-agent control systems in road traffic management," Proceedings of the 8th TRAIL Congress 2004 - A World of Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics - Selected Papers (P.H.L. Bovy, ed.), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 309-329, Nov. 2004.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  3. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control: A survey," Tech. rep. 04-010, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 23 pp., Dec. 2004.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  4. R.T. van Katwijk, P. van Koningsbruggen, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "A test bed for multi-agent control systems in road traffic management," in Applications of Agent Technology in Traffic and Transportation (F. Klügl, A. Bazzan, and S. Ossowski, eds.), Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7643-7258-3, pp. 113-131, 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  5. R.T. van Katwijk, P. van Koningsbruggen, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Test bed for multiagent control systems in road traffic management," Transportation Research Record, no. 1910, pp. 108-115, 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  6. R.T. van Katwijk, P. van Koningsbruggen, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "A test bed for multi-agent control systems in road traffic management," Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 22 pp., Jan. 2005. Paper 05-0774.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  7. L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Learning and coordination in dynamic multiagent systems," Tech. rep. 05-019, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 98 pp., Oct. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  8. L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Multiagent reinforcement learning with adaptive state focus," Proceedings of the 17th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2005) (K. Verbeeck, K. Tuyls, A. Nowé, B. Manderick, and B. Kuijpers, eds.), Brussels, Belgium, pp. 35-42, Oct. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  9. Z. Lukszo, M.P.C. Weijnen, R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and M. Ilic, "Challenges for process system engineering in infrastructure operation and control," in 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering and 9th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, July 2006) (W. Marquardt and C. Pantelides, eds.), vol. 21 of Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-52969-5, pp. 95-100, 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  10. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control of transportation networks," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2006), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, pp. 296-301, Apr. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  11. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control for transportation networks: Serial versus parallel schemes," Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM'2006), Saint-Etienne, France, pp. 339-344, May 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  12. R. Babuska, L. Busoniu, and B. De Schutter, "Reinforcement learning for multi-agent systems," Tech. rep. 06-041, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, 7 pp., July 2006. Paper for a keynote presentation at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2006), Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  13. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control for transportation networks with continuous and discrete elements," Proceedings of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 609-614, Aug. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  14. A. Tarau, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent controllers for large-scale transportation systems - Application to postal automation," Proceedings of the 9th TRAIL Congress 2006 - TRAIL in Motion - CD-ROM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12 pp., Nov. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  15. L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Multi-agent reinforcement learning: A survey," Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2006), Singapore, pp. 527-532, Dec. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  16. L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Decentralized reinforcement learning control of a robotic manipulator," Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2006), Singapore, pp. 1347-1352, Dec. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  17. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Efficient implementation of serial multi-agent model predictive control by parallelization," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC '07), London, UK, pp. 175-180, Apr. 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  18. A. Tarau, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent control of large-scale transportation systems: A survey," Tech. rep. 07-016, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 51 pp., Apr. 2007.  (bibtex)

  19. J. van Ast, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Self-organizing moving agents: A survey," Tech. rep. 07-021, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 42 pp., May 2007.  (bibtex)

  20. R.R. Negenborn, S. Leirens, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Supervisory nonlinear MPC for emergency voltage control using pattern search," Tech. rep. 07-025, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 21 pp., June 2007. Accepted for publication in Control Engineering Practice.  (bibtex)

  21. G. Hug-Glanzmann, R. Negenborn, G. Andersson, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-area control of overlapping areas in power systems for FACTS control," Proceedings of Power Tech 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland, 6 pp., July 2007. Paper 277.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  22. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Distributed Kalman filtering for multiagent systems," Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007 (ECC'07), Kos, Greece, pp. 2193-2200, July 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  23. L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "A comprehensive survey of multi-agent reinforcement learning," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 156-172, Mar. 2008.  (abstract,  online paper,  bibtex)

  24. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control for transportation networks: Serial versus parallel schemes," Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 353-366, Apr. 2008.  (abstract,  online paper,  bibtex)

  25. J. van Ast, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "A general modeling framework for swarms," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, pp. 3796-3801, June 2008.  (bibtex)

  26. J. van Ast, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Ant colony optimization for optimal control," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, pp. 2040-2046, June 2008.  (bibtex)

  27. J. van Ast, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Particle swarms in optimization and control," Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, pp. 5131-5136, July 2008.  (bibtex)


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