Incorporating control barrier functions in distributed model predictive control for multi-robot coordinated control

C Jiang, Y Guo - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multirobot motion planning and control has been investigated for decades and is still an
active research area due to the growing demand for both performance optimality and safety …

Distributed nonlinear trajectory optimization for multi-robot motion planning

L Ferranti, L Lyons, RR Negenborn… - … on Control Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a method for multi-robot coordination based on a novel distributed
nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) formulation for trajectory optimization and its …

Distributed model predictive covariance steering

AD Saravanos, IM Balci, E Bakolas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes Distributed Model Predictive Covariance Steering (DMPCS), a novel
method for safe multi-robot control under uncertainty. The scope of our approach is to blend …

Distributed motion coordination using convex feasible set based model predictive control

H Zhou, C Liu - … IEEE International Conference on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The implementation of optimization-based motion coordination approaches in real world
multi-agent systems remains challenging due to their high computational complexity and …

Decentralized robust collision-avoidance for cooperative multirobot systems: A gaussian process-based control barrier function approach

Y Hu, J Fu, G Wen - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data-based machine learning methods have been successfully applied to control system
design in recent years. However, safety during the learning and control process is difficult to …

Real-time motion planning and decision-making for a group of differential drive robots under connectivity constraints using robust MPC and mixed-integer …

A Caregnato-Neto, MROA Maximo… - Advanced …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This work is concerned with the problem of planning trajectories and assigning tasks for a
Multi-Agent System (MAS) comprised of differential drive robots. We propose a multirate …

Distributed parameterized model predictive control of networked multi-agent systems

G Droge, M Egerstedt - 2013 American Control Conference, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When considering a distributed control framework for a multi-agent system, care has to be
taken to respect the limited information available to each agent as well as the amount of …

A synthesis approach of distributed model predictive control for homogeneous multi-agent system with collision avoidance

P Wang, B Ding - International Journal of Control, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
For the tracking and formation problem of multi-agent systems with collision avoidance, a
synchronous distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm is proposed. We …

Decentralized mpc based obstacle avoidance for multi-robot target tracking scenarios

R Tallamraju, S Rajappa, MJ Black… - … on Safety, Security …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider the problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking and
obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments. Each robot executes a local motion planning …

Online trajectory generation with distributed model predictive control for multi-robot motion planning

CE Luis, M Vukosavljev… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm to generate trajectories
in real-time for multiple robots. We adopted the on-demand collision avoidance method …