• DocumentCode
    1351061
  • Title

    The Rendezvous Problem With Discontinuous Control Policies

  • Author

    Conte, Giuseppe ; Pennesi, Paris

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Ing. Inf., Gestionale e dell´´Autom., Univ. Politec. delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    279
  • Lastpage
    283
  • Abstract
    In this technical note we consider the multi-agent rendezvous problem and we state new sufficient conditions for characterizing the control policies that assure rendezvous. Our condition are less restrictive than those presented until now in the literature, since, in particular, continuity is substituted by a milder requirement concerning the behavior of the control laws around points of discontinuity. In addition, our results apply to groups of agents moving in ??n, for any finite n.
  • Keywords
    distributed control; multi-agent systems; sampled data systems; control law; discontinuous control policy; distributed control; multiagent rendezvous problem; Automatic control; Banking; Control system synthesis; Convergence; Differential equations; Distributed control; Failure analysis; Motion control; Multiagent systems; Sufficient conditions; Consensus; distributed control; multi-agent system; rendezvous;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2009.2037249
  • Filename
    5350394