Bearing rigidity and almost global bearing-only formation stabilization

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Translational and scaling formation maneuver control via a bearing-based approach

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies distributed maneuver control of multiagent formations in arbitrary
dimensions. The objective is to control the translation and scale of the formation while …

Bearing rigidity theory and its applications for control and estimation of network systems: Life beyond distance rigidity

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed control and location estimation of multiagent systems have received tremendous
research attention in recent years because of their potential across many application …

A rigidity-based decentralized bearing formation controller for groups of quadrotor UAVs

F Schiano, A Franchi, D Zelazo… - 2016 IEEE/RSJ …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of controlling a formation of quadrotor UAVs equipped
with onboard cameras able to measure relative bearings in their local body frames wrt …

Probabilistic swarm guidance using optimal transport

S Bandyopadhyay, SJ Chung… - 2014 IEEE Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Probabilistic swarm guidance enables autonomous agents to generate their individual
trajectories independently so that the entire swarm converges to the desired distribution …

Bearing rigidity maintenance for formations of quadrotor UAVs

F Schiano, PR Giordano - 2017 IEEE International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of controlling a formation of quadrotor UAVs equipped
with onboard cameras with the goal of maintaining bearing rigidity during motion despite the …

Active decentralized scale estimation for bearing-based localization

R Spica, PR Giordano - 2016 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized active perception strategy that maximizes
the convergence rate in estimating the (unmeasurable) formation scale in the context of …

Bearing-based formation maneuvering

S Zhao, D Zelazo - 2015 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of multi-agent formation maneuver control where both of the
centroid and scale of a formation are required to track given velocity references while …

Globally asymptotically stable distributed control for distance and bearing based multi-agent formations

K Fathian, DI Rachinskii, MW Spong… - 2016 American …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a continuous, distributed control scheme for formation control of multi-agent
systems based on local position measurements. The desired formation is defined in terms of …

Miniature six-channel range and bearing system: algorithm, analysis and experimental validation

N Farrow, J Klingner, D Reishus… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an algorithm, analysis, and implementation of a six-channel range and bearing
system for swarm robot systems with sizes in the order of centimeters. The proposed …