Consensus-based obstacle avoidance for robotic swarm system with behavior-based control scheme

This paper proposes the consensus algorithm for obstacle avoidance behavior of a robotic swarm system such that the orientations of all the robots are converged to consented value of them. In the previous robotic swarm algorithms based on a behavior based control has contended with obtaining the routes of the robots when accomplishing objectives such as aggregation, dispersion, or homing. In this paper, the robots move with smooth path by the proposed consensus algorithm. This advantage can lead to reduce the moving distance and the moving cost. Finally, simulation results are included to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm for the robotic swarm system based on the behavior-based control with consensus algorithm for obstacle avoidance.