Collisionless and decentralized formation control for strings

YP Choi, D Kalise, AA Peters - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.13621, 2021 - arxiv.org
A decentralized feedback controller for multi-agent systems, inspired by vehicle platooning,
is proposed. The closed-loop resulting from the decentralized control action has three …

Connectivity and convergence of formations

S Glavaški, A Williams, T Samad - Cooperative Control of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Formation control for collections of vehicles is a problem that has recently generated much
interest in the research community, motivated largely by applications to autonomous …

Multi-agent distributed coordination control: Developments and directions

X Wang, X Li, Y Cong, Z Zeng, Z Zheng - arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02595, 2015 - arxiv.org
In this paper, the recent developments on distributed coordination control, especially the
consensus and formation control, are summarized with the graph theory playing a central …

Cooperative control of multi-agent systems with information flow constraints

L Fang - 2006 - curate.nd.edu
Motivated by the emergence of new applications of networked, large-scale multiagent
systems, we study several important and related problems in this area: asynchronous …

Physics-based output-feedback consensus-formation control of networked autonomous vehicles

A Loría, E Nuño, E Panteley, E Restrepo - Hybrid and Networked …, 2024 - Springer
We describe a control method for multi-agent vehicles, to make them adopt a formation
around a non-pre-specified point on the plane, and with common but non-pre-imposed …

Robust and decentralized control of multi-agent systems under high-level tasks

A Nikou - 2019 - diva-portal.org
Decentralized control of multi-agent systems is an active topic of research, with many
practical applications arising in multi-robot systems, autonomous driving, transportation …

Distributed cohesive motion control of flight vehicle formations

I Bayezit, B Fidan - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of decentralized cohesive motion control of a
formation of autonomous vehicles or robots moving in three dimensions, where the …

Distributed cooperative control of multiple vehicle formations using structural potential functions

R Olfati-Saber, RM Murray - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2002 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a framework for formation stabilization of multiple autonomous
vehicles in a distributed fashion. Each vehicle is assumed to have simple dynamics, ie a …

[HTML][HTML] Decentralized control of multi-agent systems for swarming with a given geometric pattern

TM Cheng, AV Savkin - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a problem of cooperative formation control of a network of self-
deployed autonomous agents. We propose a decentralized motion coordination control for …

[HTML][HTML] Third-order consensus for robust distributed formation control of double integrator vehicles

P Trindade, P Batista, R Cunha - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a robust distributed and cooperative control
algorithm for formation tracking by teams of vehicles modeled as double integrators, and …