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Formation control using range-only measurements

โœ Scribed by Ming Cao; Changbin Yu; Brian D.O. Anderson


Book ID
104003197
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
345 KB
Volume
47
Category
Article
ISSN
0005-1098

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โœฆ Synopsis


This paper proposes algorithms to coordinate a formation of mobile agents when the agents are not able to measure the relative positions of their neighbors, but only the distances to their respective neighbors. In this sense, less information is available to agents than is normally assumed in formation stabilization or station keeping problems. To control the shape of the formation, the solution advanced in the paper involves subsets of non-neighbor agents cyclically localizing the relative positions of their respective neighbor agents while these are held stationary, and then moving to reduce the value of a cost function which is nonnegative and assumes the zero value precisely when the formation has correct distances. The movement schedule is obtained by a novel vertex-coloring algorithm whose computation time is linear in the number of agents when implemented on the graphs of minimally rigid formations. Since in some formations, it may be that an agent is never allowed to be stationary (e.g. it is a fixed-wing aircraft), or because formations may be required to move as a whole in a certain direction, the results are extended to allow for cyclic localization of agents in this case. The tool used is the Cayley-Menger determinant.


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