Multirobot control strategies for collective transport

H Farivarnejad, S Berman - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One potential application of multirobot systems is collective transport, a task in which
multiple robots collaboratively move a payload that is too large or heavy for a single robot. In …

A predictive control approach for cooperative transportation by multiple underwater vehicle manipulator systems

S Heshmati-Alamdari, GC Karras… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the problem of cooperative object transportation for multiple
underwater vehicle manipulator systems (UVMSs) in a constrained workspace involving …

[HTML][HTML] Kinematic modeling of a combined system of multiple mecanum-wheeled robots with velocity compensation

Y Li, S Ge, S Dai, L Zhao, X Yan, Y Zheng, Y Shi - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In industry, combination configurations composed of multiple Mecanum-wheeled mobile
robots are adopted to transport large-scale objects. In this paper, a kinematic model with …

Adaptive robot navigation with collision avoidance subject to 2nd-order uncertain dynamics

CK Verginis, DV Dimarogonas - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of robot motion planning in a workspace with obstacles for
systems with uncertain 2nd-order dynamics. In particular, we combine closed form potential …

A nonlinear model predictive control scheme for cooperative manipulation with singularity and collision avoidance

A Nikou, C Verginis… - … on Control and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transportation of an object rigidly grasped
by N robotic agents. In particular, we propose a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) …

A scalable framework for multi-robot tele-impedance control

VR Garate, S Gholami… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present an online scalable tele-impedance framework, which enables the
individual and collaborative control of multiple different robotic platforms. The framework …

Closed-form barrier functions for multi-agent ellipsoidal systems with uncertain lagrangian dynamics

CK Verginis, DV Dimarogonas - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we design a decentralized control protocol for the collision avoidance of a multi-
agent system, which is composed of 3-D ellipsoidal agents that obey second-order uncertain …

Decentralized tube‐based model predictive control of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems

A Nikou, DV Dimarogonas - International Journal of Robust …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the problem of decentralized tube‐based nonlinear model predictive
control (NMPC) for a general class of uncertain nonlinear continuous‐time multiagent …

Robust cooperative manipulation without force/torque measurements: Control design and experiments

CK Verginis, M Mastellaro… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents two novel control methodologies for the cooperative manipulation of an
object by N robotic agents. First, we design an adaptive control protocol which employs …

Robust decentralised navigation of multi-agent systems with collision avoidance and connectivity maintenance using model predictive controllers

A Filotheou, A Nikou… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of 2nd order
uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is a subset of R 3 …