학술논문

Distributed Formation Control of Mobile Agents via Global Orientation Estimation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems IEEE Trans. Control Netw. Syst. Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 7(4):1654-1664 Dec, 2020
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Estimation
Mobile agents
Protocols
Decentralized control
Convergence
Simulation
Double integrator
formation control
global orientation estimation
unicycle
Language
ISSN
2325-5870
2372-2533
Abstract
This article proposes a distributed control approach via global orientation estimation for a range of coordination control tasks of multiple mobile agents. In particular, we first present a distributed orientation estimation protocol that determines the orientations of agents almost globally and exponentially up to an unknown constant orientation. Based on the orientation estimation, we then present distributed control laws for formation stabilization of and controlling the moving formations of holonomic double-integrator agents. Furthermore, a distributed control protocol is proposed and almost globally asymptotic convergence of the desired formation is established for nonholonomic mobile agents subject to velocity constraints. Finally, simulation results and experimental verification are also provided.