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This paper addresses the problem of time-varying bearing formation control in $d$ $(d\ge 2)$-dimensional Euclidean space by exploring Persistence of Excitation (PE) of the desired bearing reference. A general concept of Bearing Persistently…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Zhiqi Tang , Rita Cunha , Tarek Hamel , Carlos Silvestre

Non-uniform scaling control of formation enables multi-agent systems to adjust their shape by scaling with different ratios along different coordinate axes, offering enhanced flexibility in complex environments. However, like most existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Tao He , Gangshan Jing

This work addresses the problem of designing a visual servo controller for a multirotor vehicle, with the end goal of tracking a moving spherical target with unknown radius. To address this problem, we first transform two bearing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Marcelo Jacinto , Rita Cunha

In this paper, we develop new methods for the analysis of decentralized control systems and we apply them to formation control problems. The basic set-up consists of a system with multiple agents corresponding to the nodes of a graph whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-20 M. -A. Belabbas

This paper addresses the problem of formation control and tracking a of desired trajectory by an Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems. It is inspired by recent results by Qingkai et al. and adopts an event-triggered control strategy to reduce…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christophe Viel , Sylvain Bertrand , Michel Kieffer , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

This paper proposes a port-Hamiltonian framework for angle-based formation stabilization and maneuvers using bearing and velocity measurements with an underlying triangulated Laman graph. The corresponding port-Hamiltonian controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Ningbo Li , Pablo Borja , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

This paper studies the problem of distributed formation maneuver control of multi-agent systems via complex Laplacian. We will show how to change the translation, scaling, rotation, and also the shape of formation continuously by only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Xu Fang , Lihua Xie

The problem of distributed controller synthesis for formation control of multi-agent systems is considered. The agents (single integrators) communicate over a communication graph and a decentralized linear feedback structure is assumed. One…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Ameer K. Mulla , Rachel K. Kalaimani , Debraj Chakraborty , Madhu N. Belur

Formation control deals with the design of decentralized control laws that stabilize agents at prescribed distances from each other. We call any configuration that satisfies the inter-agent distance conditions a target configuration. It is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Xudong Chen , M. -A. Belabbas , Tamer Basar

This paper studies the bearing-based simultaneous localization and affine formation tracking (SLAFT) control problem for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the considered problem, only a small set of UAVs, named leaders, can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Li Huiming , Sun Zhiyong , Chen Hao , Wang Xiangke , Shen Lincheng

Motivated by applications in intelligent highway systems, the paper studies the problem of guiding mobile agents in a one-dimensional formation to their desired relative positions. Only coarse information is used which is communicated from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Claudio De Persis , Hui Liu , Ming Cao

This paper considers a leader-following formation control problem for heterogeneous, second-order, uncertain, input-affine, nonlinear multi-agent systems modeled by a directed graph. A tunable, three-layer neural network (NN) is proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Kiarash Aryankia , Rastko R. Selmic

Motivated by real-world applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, this paper introduces a decentralized control mechanism to guide steering control of autonomous agents maneuvering in the vicinity of multiple moving entities (e.g. other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Kevin S. Galloway , Biswadip Dey

This paper introduces a diffusion-based planner for leader--follower formation control in cluttered environments. The diffusion policy is used to generate the trajectory of the midpoint of two leaders as a rigid bar in the plane, thereby…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hieu Do Quang , Chien Truong-Quoc , Quoc Van Tran

This paper investigates a distributed formation control problem for networked robots, with the global objective of achieving predefined time-varying formations in an environment with obstacles. A novel fixed-time behavioral approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Ning Zhou , Xiaodong Cheng , Yuanqing Xia , Yanjun Liu

This paper presents a novel zone-based flocking control approach suitable for dynamic multi-agent systems (MAS). Inspired by Reynolds behavioral rules for $boids$, flocking behavioral rules with the zones of repulsion, conflict, attraction,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hossein B. Jond

This work considers the distance constrained formation control problem with an additional constraint requiring that the formation exhibits a specified spatial symmetry. We employ recent results from the theory of symmetry-forced rigidity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Daniel Zelazo , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Bernd Schulze

The complex tasks such as surveillance, construction, search and rescue can benefit of the maneuverability of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to obtain robust, cooperative system behavior and formation control is a prominent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-09 I. Kagan Erunsal , Rodrigo Ventura , Alcherio Martinoli

We introduce and develop the concept of dispersion formation control, bridging a gap between shape-assembly studies in physics and biology and formation control theory. In current formation control studies, the control objectives typically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jin Chen , Jesus Bautista Villar , Bayu Jayawardhana , Hector Garcia de Marina

We consider the localization problem between agents while they run a formation control algorithm. These algorithms typically demand from the agents the information about their relative positions with respect to their neighbors. We assume…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Leonardo Colombo , Hector Garcia de Marina , María Barbero Liñán , David Martín de Diego