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Bearing-only formation control with auxiliary distance measurements, leaders, and collision avoidance
We address the controller synthesis problem for distributed formation control. Our solution requires only relative bearing measurements (as opposed to full translations), and is based on the exact gradient of a Lyapunov function with only global minimizers (independently from the formation topology). These properties allow a simple proof of global asymptotic convergence, and extensions for including distance measurements, leaders and collision avoidance. We validate our approach through simulations and comparison with other stateof-the-art algorithms.ARL grant W911NF-08-2-0004, ARO grant W911NF-13-1-0350, ONR grants N00014-07-1-0829, N00014-14-1-0510, N00014-15-1-2115, NSF grant IIS-1426840, CNS-1521617 and United Technologies
Bearing-Based Distributed Control and Estimation of Multi-Agent Systems
This paper studies the distributed control and estimation of multi-agent
systems based on bearing information. In particular, we consider two problems:
(i) the distributed control of bearing-constrained formations using relative
position measurements and (ii) the distributed localization of sensor networks
using bearing measurements. Both of the two problems are considered in
arbitrary dimensional spaces. The analyses of the two problems rely on the
recently developed bearing rigidity theory. We show that the two problems have
the same mathematical formulation and can be solved by identical protocols. The
proposed controller and estimator can globally solve the two problems without
ambiguity. The results are supported with illustrative simulations.Comment: 6 pages, to appear in the 2015 European Control Conferenc
Robust Distance-Based Formation Control of Multiple Rigid Bodies with Orientation Alignment
This paper addresses the problem of distance- and orientation-based formation
control of a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems in 3D space,
under static and undirected communication topologies. More specifically, we
design a decentralized model-free control protocol in the sense that each agent
uses only local information from its neighbors to calculate its own control
signal, without incorporating any knowledge of the model nonlinearities and
exogenous disturbances. Moreover, the transient and steady state response is
solely determined by certain designer-specified performance functions and is
fully decoupled by the agents' dynamic model, the control gain selection, the
underlying graph topology as well as the initial conditions. Additionally, by
introducing certain inter-agent distance constraints, we guarantee collision
avoidance and connectivity maintenance between neighboring agents. Finally,
simulation results verify the performance of the proposed controllers.Comment: IFAC Word Congress 201
Global stabilization for triangular formations under mixed distance and bearing constraints
This paper addresses the triangular formation control problem for a system of three agents under mixed distance and bearing constraints. The main challenge is to find a fully distributed control law for each agent to guarantee the global convergence towards a desired triangular formation. To solve this problem, we invoke the property that a triangle can be uniquely determined by the lengths of its two sides together with the magnitude of the corresponding included angle. Based on this feature, we design a class of control strategies, under which each agent is only responsible for a single control variable, i.e., a distance or an angle, such that the control laws can be implemented in local coordinate frames. The global convergence is shown by analyzing the dynamics of the closed-loop system in its cascade form. Then we discuss some extensions on more general formation shapes and give the quadrilateral formation as an example. Simulation results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies
Bearing-Based Formation Maneuvering
This paper studies the problem of multi-agent formation maneuver control
where both of the centroid and scale of a formation are required to track given
velocity references while maintaining the formation shape. Unlike the
conventional approaches where the target formation is defined by inter-neighbor
relative positions or distances, we propose a bearing-based approach where the
target formation is defined by inter-neighbor bearings. Due to the invariance
of the bearings, the bearing-based approach provides a natural solution to
formation scale control. We assume the dynamics of each agent as a single
integrator and propose a globally stable proportional-integral formation
maneuver control law. It is shown that at least two leaders are required to
collaborate in order to control the centroid and scale of the formation whereas
the followers are not required to have access to any global information, such
as the velocities of the leaders.Comment: To appear in the 2015 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control
(MSC2015); this is the final versio
Controlling the shape and scale of triangular formations using landmarks and bearing-only sensing
© 2016 TCCT. This work considers the scenario where three agents that can sense only bearings use two landmarks to control their formation shape. We define a method of relating the known distance separating the landmarks back to the edge lengths of the triangular formation. The result is used to define a formation control law that incorporates inter-agent distance constraints. We prove a strong exponential convergence result and show how one can extend the controller such that global stability from any initial position is possible
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