Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges

This paper presents a design of cooperative controllers that force a group of N mobile agents with an elliptical shape and with limited sensing ranges to perform a desired formation. The controllers guarantee no collisions between any agents in the group. The desired formation can be stabilized at f...

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Main Author: Do, Khac
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10093
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description This paper presents a design of cooperative controllers that force a group of N mobile agents with an elliptical shape and with limited sensing ranges to perform a desired formation. The controllers guarantee no collisions between any agents in the group. The desired formation can be stabilized at feasible reference trajectories with bounded time derivatives. The formation control design is based on an algebraic separation condition between ellipses, Lyapunov’s method, and smooth or p-times differentiable step functions. These functions are introduced and incorporated into novel potential functions to solve the collision avoidance problem without the need for switchings under the agents’ limited sensing ranges.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-100932019-02-19T04:26:59Z Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges Do, Khac Potential functions Collision avoidance Lyapunov’s method Elliptical agents Formation control This paper presents a design of cooperative controllers that force a group of N mobile agents with an elliptical shape and with limited sensing ranges to perform a desired formation. The controllers guarantee no collisions between any agents in the group. The desired formation can be stabilized at feasible reference trajectories with bounded time derivatives. The formation control design is based on an algebraic separation condition between ellipses, Lyapunov’s method, and smooth or p-times differentiable step functions. These functions are introduced and incorporated into novel potential functions to solve the collision avoidance problem without the need for switchings under the agents’ limited sensing ranges. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10093 10.1016/j.automatica.2012.04.005 Pergamon fulltext
spellingShingle Potential functions
Collision avoidance
Lyapunov’s method
Elliptical agents
Formation control
Do, Khac
Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
title Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
title_full Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
title_fullStr Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
title_full_unstemmed Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
title_short Formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
title_sort formation control of multiple elliptical agents with limited sensing ranges
topic Potential functions
Collision avoidance
Lyapunov’s method
Elliptical agents
Formation control
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10093