Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges

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

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Main Author: Do, Khac
Format: Journal Article
Published: Chinese Automatic Control Society 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47683
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description This paper presents a design of cooperative controllers that force a group of N mobile agents with an elliptic shape and limited sensing ranges to perform a desired formation and that 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 explicit algebraic separation conditions between ellipses, root conditions of cubic polynomials, the Lyapunov direct method, and smooth or p-times differentiable step functions. These functions are incorporated into novel potential functions to solve the collision avoidance problem without the need for switchings despite the agents’ limited sensing ranges.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-476832017-09-13T15:58:41Z Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges Do, Khac collision avoidance Formation control elliptic agents This paper presents a design of cooperative controllers that force a group of N mobile agents with an elliptic shape and limited sensing ranges to perform a desired formation and that 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 explicit algebraic separation conditions between ellipses, root conditions of cubic polynomials, the Lyapunov direct method, and smooth or p-times differentiable step functions. These functions are incorporated into novel potential functions to solve the collision avoidance problem without the need for switchings despite the agents’ limited sensing ranges. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47683 10.1002/asjc.447 Chinese Automatic Control Society restricted
spellingShingle collision avoidance
Formation control
elliptic agents
Do, Khac
Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges
title Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges
title_full Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges
title_fullStr Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges
title_full_unstemmed Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges
title_short Formation Control of Multiple Elliptic Agents with Limited Sensing Ranges
title_sort formation control of multiple elliptic agents with limited sensing ranges
topic collision avoidance
Formation control
elliptic agents
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47683