NARC (Networked and Autonomous Robot Control)

Research Research groups Department of Electrical Engineering NARC (Networked and Autonomous Robot Control)

Networked Systems: The research focuses on the development of advanced control strategies for multi-agent and networked control systems. A central objective is the application of newly developed mathematical methods in stability analysis, modeling, and optimization to design novel distributed control approaches for cooperative multi-agent systems. Particular attention is devoted to the impact of communication delays on system performance, alongside the development of effective delay-compensation techniques. The research also investigates how control, estimation, identification, and fault-diagnosis methods originally developed for robotic swarms can be generalized to broader classes of multi-agent systems. Potential application areas include nonlinear process networks, as well as biological and ecological networks.

Autonomous Systems: The main objective of this research area is the development of advanced control, path-planning, and localization algorithms for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. In addition, the research aims to design robust control strategies, trajectory-generation methods, and real-time communication protocols for robotic systems operating in hazardous or challenging environments. These developments support the deployment of autonomous systems in applications requiring high reliability, adaptability, and safe operation under uncertain conditions.

Members

Márton Lőrinc (2012 - ) - Head of the research group
Szántó Zoltán (2012 - )
Fehér Áron (2017 - )
Alex Csillag (2025 - )
Hunor Simon (2026 - )

Partner institutions

Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pazmany Peter , Budapest, Hungary
SZTAKI – Institute for Computer Science and Control, Budapest, Hungary
ZIB (Zuse Insitute Berlin), Germany

Grants and scholarships

Accenture Industrial Software Solutions (AISS) grant for Universities for IoT activity (2020)
Klebelsberg Kuno scholarship (2020).
MTA Domus Scholarship 2020 – 2026
Humboldt Alumni Scholarship 2025

Recent research results

M. Hangos, W. Kurniawan, L. Márton, Diffusive network connected chemical reaction networks, Systems Science & Control Engineering 13 (1), 2469615, 2025
Á. Fehér, L. Márton, State and disturbance source estimation in Fisher–Kolmogorov equation, IFAC Journal of Systems and Control, 100314, 2025
Kurniawan, L. Márton, Fault isolation with disturbance estimation in networks of linear dynamic systems, International Journal of Dynamics and Control 13 (5), 1-14, 2025
Márton, K. M. Hangos, A. Magyar, Migration-connected networks of Lotka–Volterra and quasi-polynomial systems: modeling and decentralized control, Nonlinear Dynamics 113 (9), 10577-10596, 2025
Kurniawan, W; Hangos, K M; Márton, Lőrinc, Fault Isolation and Estimation in Networks of Linear Process Systems, Entropy 25, 6, paper 862, 26 p., 2023.
Lőrinc Márton, Gábor Szederkényi, Katalin M. Hangos, Modeling and control of networked kinetic systems with delayed interconnections, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 130, paper 103084, 2023.
Márton, Lőrinc, Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation, Theoretical Population Biology, Vol. 148, pp. 86-94, 2022.
Kurniawan, Wijaya, Marton, Lorinc, Sensor Faults Isolation in Networked Control Systems: Application to Mobile Robot Platoons, Sensors 21, 20 p, paper: 6702, 2021.
Lőrinc Márton, Katalin Hangos, Attila Magyar, Passivity of Lotka–Volterra and quasi-polynomial systems, Nonlinearity, Vol. 34, No. 4 pp. 1880-1899, 2021.
Áron Fehér, Lőrinc Márton, Approximation and control of a class of distributed delay systems, Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 149, p. 104882, 2021.
Áron Fehér, Lőrinc Márton, Mihály Pituk, Asymptotically ordinary linear Volterra difference equations with infinite delay, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 386, 2020, p. 125499.
Áron Fehér, Lőrinc Márton, Mihály Pituk, Approximation of a Linear Autonomous Differential Equation with Small Delay, Symmetry, Vol. 11, 2019, p. 1299.
Lőrinc Márton, Switching control analysis and design in queue networks, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 357, No. 1, 2020, pp. 19-38.