An overview on optimal flocking

LE Beaver, AA Malikopoulos - Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 - Elsevier
The decentralized aggregate motion of many individual robots is known as robotic flocking.
The study of robotic flocking has received considerable attention in the past twenty years. As …

Economic and distributed model predictive control: Recent developments in optimization-based control

MA Müller, F Allgöwer - SICE Journal of Control, Measurement …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of this paper is to give an overview of some recent developments in the field of
model predictive control. After a brief introduction to the basic concepts and available …

Formation control of multiple mobile robots incorporating an extended state observer and distributed model predictive approach

A Liu, WA Zhang, L Yu, H Yan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the extended state observer (ESO)-based distributed model predictive
control (DMPC) approach to deal with multiple mobile robot formation with unknown …

Self-triggered DMPC design for cooperative multiagent systems

X Mi, Y Zou, S Li, HR Karimi - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the cooperation control problem for a team of dynamically decoupled
agents with resource constraints. A codesign of self-triggered mechanism and distributed …

Multivehicle flocking with collision avoidance via distributed model predictive control

Y Lyu, J Hu, BM Chen, C Zhao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flocking control has been studied extensively along with the wide applications of
multivehicle systems. In this article, the distributed flocking control strategy is studied for a …

An event-triggered approach to torsional vibration control of drill-string system using measurement-while-drilling data

C Lu, M Wu, L Chen, W Cao - Control Engineering Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
Suppressing torsional vibration of drill-string has great safety and economic importance to
drilling process. Note that most existing control methods only measure surface information …

Formation control of multiple underwater robots based on ADMM distributed model predictive control

R Zhao, M Miao, J Lu, Y Wang, D Li - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a distributed model predictive control approach based on the
alternating direction multiplier method (ADMM) to solve the formation control problem of …

Robust integral of sign of error‐based distributed flocking control of double‐integrator multi‐agent systems with a varying virtual leader

X Wang, J Sun, Z Wu, Z Li - International Journal of Robust and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the flocking control problem of double‐integrator multi‐agent
systems with a virtual leader subject to unknown external disturbances. A robust integral of …

Safety Flocking of Networked Lagrangian Systems With Event-Triggered Communication

X Luo, Y Fu, J Wang, X Li - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the safety flocking control problem of networked Lagrangian systems
under event-triggered communication. To avoid collision and preserve connectivity, the …

Resilient RMPC for polytopic uncertain systems under TOD protocol: A switched system approach

K Zhu, Y Song, D Ding - International Journal of Robust and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper addresses the resilient robust model predictive control (RMPC) problem for a
class of polytopic uncertain systems under the try‐once‐discard (TOD) protocol. At each …