• DocumentCode
    955043
  • Title

    Local control strategies for groups of mobile autonomous agents

  • Author

    Lin, Zhiyun ; Broucke, Mireille ; Francis, Bruce

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    622
  • Lastpage
    629
  • Abstract
    The problem of achieving a specified formation among a group of mobile autonomous agents by distributed control is studied. If convergence to a point is feasible, then more general formations are achievable too, so the focus is on convergence to a point (the agreement problem). Three formation strategies are studied and convergence is proved under certain conditions. Also, motivated by the question of whether collisions occur, formation evolution is studied.
  • Keywords
    collision avoidance; convergence; distributed control; mobile agents; mobile robots; agent subgroups; convergence; distributed control; group coordinated control; local control strategies; mobile autonomous agents; Aerospace simulation; Autonomous agents; Birds; Convergence; Distributed algorithms; Distributed control; Evolution (biology); Robots; Underwater vehicles; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9286
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAC.2004.825639
  • Filename
    1284730
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=955043