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Target Encirclement with any Smooth Pattern Using Range-only Measurements

Systems and Control 2020-03-31 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

This paper proposes a coordinate-free controller to drive a mobile robot to encircle a target at unknown position by only using range measurements. Different from the existing works, a backstepping based controller is proposed to encircle the target with zero steady-state error for any desired smooth pattern. Moreover, we show its asymptotic exponential convergence under a fixed set of control parameters, which are independent of the initial distance to the target. The effectiveness and advantages of the proposed controller are validated via simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1906.07416,
  title  = {Target Encirclement with any Smooth Pattern Using Range-only Measurements},
  author = {Fei Dong and Keyou You and Shiji Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07416},
  year   = {2020}
}
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