Title :
Rendezvous under noisy measurements
Author :
Carlos H. Caicedo-Nunez;Milos Zefran
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607, USA
Abstract :
We describe a distributed algorithm for solving the rendezvous problem based on consensus protocols. We extend our previous work by considering the case when the evolution of the system is affected by measurement noise. The consensus formulation allows us to derive conditions for convergence of the system towards a ball with a finite radius. We derive an upper bound on the radius of the ball and show how it depends on the magnitude of the noise. We also present examples showing that the bound is tight and can be in fact achieved, but that typically the convergence is much better than the bound suggests.
Keywords :
"Protocols","Convergence","Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions","Distributed algorithms","Noise measurement","Noise reduction","Upper bound","Communication system control","Robot sensing systems","Parallel processing"
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2008. CDC 2008. 47th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3123-6
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2008.4739448