Pigeon-inspired circular formation control for multi-UAV system with limited target information

M Huo, H Duan, Y Fan - Guidance, Navigation and Control, 2021 - World Scientific
The problem of cooperative circular formation with limited target information for multiple
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system is addressed in this paper. A pigeon-inspired …

Reinforcement learning-based close formation control for underactuated surface vehicle with prescribed performance and time-varying state constraints

H Chen, H Yan, Y Wang, S Xie, D Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies close formation control problem with prescribed performance and time-
varying state constraints for a group of 4-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) underactuated surface …

Gradient-based bearing-only formation control: An elevation angle approach

L Chen, Z Sun - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an elevation angle rigidity theory in both 2D and 3D spaces, and
applies it to solve multi-agent formation control with only inter-agent bearing/direction …

Formation control for second-order multi-agent systems with collision avoidance

JF Flores-Resendiz, D Avilés, E Aranda-Bricaire - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper deals with the formation control problem without collisions for second-order multi-
agent systems. We propose a control strategy which consists of a bounded attractive …

Collision avoidance and connectivity preservation using asymmetric barrier Lyapunov function with time-varying distance-constraints

S Singh, A Jain - Systems & Control Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Collision avoidance and connectivity preservation are two contrasting issues in multi-agent
formation control problems. This paper proposes a distributed control design methodology to …

2-D directed formation control based on bipolar coordinates

F Mehdifar, CP Bechlioulis… - … on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes a novel 2-D formation control scheme for acyclic triangulated directed
graphs (a class of minimally acyclic persistent graphs) based on bipolar coordinates with …

Bearing-only formation control with bounded disturbances in agents' local coordinate frames

C Garanayak, D Mukherjee - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter studies formation control using bearing-only measurements for elevation angle
rigid configurations in the presence of time-varying bounded disturbances. Elevation angle …

[HTML][HTML] Collision-free zero-communication finite-time target localization and circumnavigation by multiple agents using bearing-only measurements

D Sui, M Deghat - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, the problem of localizing and circumnavigating an unknown stationary target
by multiple autonomous agents using bearing-only measurements is studied. We assume …

SwarMer: A Decentralized Localization Framework for Flying Light Specks

H Alimohammadzadeh, S Ghandeharizadeh - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Swarm-Merging, SwarMer, is a decentralized framework to localize Flying Light Specks
(FLSs) to render 2D and 3D shapes. An FLS is a miniature sized drone equipped with one or …

Distributed Formation Control for Manipulator End Effectors

H Wu, B Jayawardhana… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article addresses the problem of achieving and maintaining the 2-D/3-D formation
shape of networked manipulator end effectors. We first present a distributed formation …