Title :
Persistent formation control of multi-robot networks
Author :
Smith, Brian S. ; Wang, Jiuguang ; Egerstedt, Magnus B.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a method for controlling formations of mobile robots. In particular, the problem of maintaining so-called ¿persistent formations¿ while moving the formation from one location to another is defined and investigated. A method for accomplishing such persistent formation motions is presented, and the method is demonstrated in simulation and with a prototype network of robots.
Keywords :
mobile robots; multi-robot systems; mobile robots; multirobot networks; persistent formation control; Antarctica; Contracts; Ice; Mobile robots; NASA; Orbital robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robotic assembly; Stability; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2008. CDC 2008. 47th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3123-6
Electronic_ISBN :
0191-2216
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2008.4739157