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Main Authors: Autenrieb, Johannes, Spiller, Mark, Shin, Hyo-Sang, Cho, Namhoon
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05762
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author Autenrieb, Johannes
Spiller, Mark
Shin, Hyo-Sang
Cho, Namhoon
author_facet Autenrieb, Johannes
Spiller, Mark
Shin, Hyo-Sang
Cho, Namhoon
contents This paper presents a hybrid safety-critical coordination architecture for multi-agent systems operating in dense environments. While control barrier functions (CBFs) provide formal safety guarantees, decentralized implementations typically rely on ego-centric safety filtering and may lead to redundant constraint enforcement and conservative collective behavior. To address this limitation, we introduce a combinatorial coordination layer formulated as a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that assigns collision-avoidance responsibilities among agents. By explicitly distributing enforcement tasks, redundant reactions are eliminated and computational complexity is reduced. Each agent subsequently solves a reduced local quadratic program enforcing only its assigned constraints.
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spellingShingle Combinatorial Safety-Critical Coordination of Multi-Agent Systems via Mixed-Integer Responsibility Allocation and Control Barrier Functions
Autenrieb, Johannes
Spiller, Mark
Shin, Hyo-Sang
Cho, Namhoon
Systems and Control
This paper presents a hybrid safety-critical coordination architecture for multi-agent systems operating in dense environments. While control barrier functions (CBFs) provide formal safety guarantees, decentralized implementations typically rely on ego-centric safety filtering and may lead to redundant constraint enforcement and conservative collective behavior. To address this limitation, we introduce a combinatorial coordination layer formulated as a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that assigns collision-avoidance responsibilities among agents. By explicitly distributing enforcement tasks, redundant reactions are eliminated and computational complexity is reduced. Each agent subsequently solves a reduced local quadratic program enforcing only its assigned constraints.
title Combinatorial Safety-Critical Coordination of Multi-Agent Systems via Mixed-Integer Responsibility Allocation and Control Barrier Functions
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05762