Abstract Recently, Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) have attained considerable recognition
because of their efficiency and applicability in different types of real-life applications. This …

In a world with rapidly growing levels of automation, robotics is playing an increasingly
significant role in every aspect of human endeavour. In particular, many types of mobile …

This work considers the problem of learning cooperative policies in complex, partially
observable domains without explicit communication. We extend three classes of single …

Time-varying formation analysis and design problems for multi-agent systems with general
linear dynamics and switching directed interaction topologies are investigated. Different from …

A multiagent formation control task usually consists of two subtasks. The first is to steer the
agents to form a desired geometric pattern, and the second is to achieve desired collective …

A fundamental problem that the bearing rigidity theory studies is to determine when a
framework can be uniquely determined up to a translation and a scaling factor by its inter …

This article studies the formation tracking control problem for a group of underactuated
surface vehicles with guaranteed transient properties, including connectivity maintenance …

Recent advances in miniaturizing of computing, communication, sensing, and actuation
have made it feasible to envision large numbers of autonomous vehicles (air, ground, and …

The research progress of swarm robotics is reviewed in details. The swarm robotics inspired
from nature is a combination of swarm intelligence and robotics, which shows a great …

In this brief, we consider the formation control problem of underactuated autonomous
surface vehicles (ASVs) moving in a leader-follower formation, in the presence of …