A Smooth Distributed Feedback for Global Rendezvous of Unicycles
Optimization and Control
2016-05-26 v1
Abstract
This paper presents a solution to the rendezvous control problem for a network of kinematic unicycles in the plane, each equipped with an onboard camera measuring its relative displacement with respect to its neighbors in body frame coordinates. A smooth, time-independent control law is presented that drives the unicycles to a common position from arbitrary initial conditions, under the assumption that the sensing digraph contains a reverse-directed spanning tree. The proposed feedback is very simple, and relies only on the onboard measurements. No global positioning system is required, nor any information about the unicycles' orientations.
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@article{arxiv.1605.07982,
title = {A Smooth Distributed Feedback for Global Rendezvous of Unicycles},
author = {Ashton Roza and Manfredi Maggiore and Luca Scardovi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07982},
year = {2016}
}