Title :
Leader-following rendezvous with connectivity preservation of single-integrator multi-agent systems
Author :
Yi Dong ; Jie Huang
Author_Institution :
Shenzhen Res. Inst., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Abstract :
This paper studies the problem of leader-following rendezvous with connectivity preservation for a linear multi-agent system where the leader system is a linear autonomous system and the follower system is a multiple single-integrator system. We propose a distributed state feedback control protocol that is able to maintain the connectivity of the system and, at the same time, achieve asymptotic tracking of all followers to the output of the leader system.
Keywords :
distributed control; linear systems; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; state feedback; tracking; asymptotic tracking; connectivity preservation; distributed state feedback control protocol; follower system; leader system; leader-following rendezvous; linear autonomous system; linear multiagent system; single-integrator multiagent system; system connectivity; Closed loop systems; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Lead; Multi-agent systems; Robots; State feedback; Symmetric matrices;
Conference_Titel :
Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), 2012 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1871-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1870-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICARCV.2012.6485402