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This work addresses the finite-time enclosing control problem where a set of followers are deployed to encircle and rotate around multiple moving targets with a predefined spacing pattern in finite time. A novel distributed and continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Liang Zhang

We present MOTLEE, a distributed mobile multi-object tracking algorithm that enables a team of robots to collaboratively track moving objects in the presence of localization error. Existing approaches to distributed tracking make limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mason B. Peterson , Parker C. Lusk , Jonathan P. How

Navigating robots safely and efficiently in crowded and complex environments remains a significant challenge. However, due to the dynamic and intricate nature of these settings, planning efficient and collision-free paths for robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zhuanglei Wen , Mingze Dong , Xiai Chen

This work addresses the output consensus problem of constrained heterogeneous multi-agent systems under a switching network with potential communication delays, where outputs are periodic and characterized by an exosystem. Since periodic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shibo Han , Bonan Hou , Chong Jin Ong

Online collision-free trajectory generation within a shared workspace is fundamental for most multi-robot applications. However, many widely-used methods based on model predictive control (MPC) lack theoretical guarantees on the feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yuda Chen , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

This work proposes a cooperative strategy that employs deviated pursuit guidance to simultaneously intercept a moving (but not manoeuvring) target. As opposed to many existing cooperative guidance strategies which use estimates of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Abhinav Sinha , Dwaipayan Mukherjee , Shashi Ranjan Kumar

This paper addresses the problem of distributed control for leader-follower multi-agent systems under prescribed performance guarantees. Leader-follower is meant in the sense that a group of agents with external inputs are selected as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper addresses the leader-following attitude consensus problem for a group of spacecraft when at least one follower can access the leader's attitude and velocity relative to the inertial space. A nonlinear distributed observer is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Haichao Gui , Anton H. J. de Ruiter

Rigid-formation navigation of multiple robots is essential for applications such as cooperative transportation. This process involves a team of collaborative robots maintaining a predefined geometric configuration, such as a square, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Qun Yang , Soung Chang Liew

This paper addresses a formation tracking problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems with time-varying actuator faults, in which only a subset of agents has access to the leader's information over the directed leader-follower network with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Z. Feng , G. Hu

In this paper, we address the shape formation problem for massive robot swarms in environments where external localization systems are unavailable. Achieving this task effectively with solely onboard measurements is still scarcely explored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jinhu Lü , Kunrui Ze , Shuoyu Yue , Kexin Liu , Wei Wang , Guibin Sun

This paper presents a unified approach to realize versatile distributed maneuvering with generalized formations. Specifically, we decompose the robots' maneuvers into two independent components, i.e., interception and enclosing, which are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yang Lu , Sha Luo , Pengming Zhu , Weijia Yao , Hector Garcia de Marina , Xinglong Zhang , Xin Xu

Autonomous ground vehicles have been designed for the purpose of that relies on ranging and bearing information received from forward looking camera on the Formation control . A visual guidance control algorithm is designed where real time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 S. M. Vaitheeswaran , Bharath M. K. , Gokul M

We propose a distributed (single) target tracking scheme based on networked estimation and consensus algorithms over static sensor networks. The tracking part is based on linear time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurement proposed in our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Mohammad Pirani , Usman A. Khan

We address the optimal dynamic formation problem in mobile leader-follower networks where an optimal formation is generated to maximize a given objective function while continuously preserving connectivity. We show that in a convex mission…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Xinmiao Sun , Christos G. Cassandras

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) enables a robot team to achieve coordinated tasks by relying on a common map of the environment. Constructing a map by centralized processing of the robot observations is undesirable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hanwen Cao , Sriram Shreedharan , Nikolay Atanasov

The movement of cooperative robots in a densely cluttered environment may not be possible if the formation type is invariant. Hence, we investigate a new method for time-varying formation control for a group of heterogeneous autonomous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Vu Phi Tran , Matthew Garratt , Ian R. Petersen

This technical note addresses the distributed fixed-time consensus protocol design problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics over directed communication graphs. By using motion planning approaches, a class of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Yu Zhao , Yongfang Liu , Guanrong Chen

This technical note studies the distributed average tracking problem for multiple time-varying signals with general linear dynamics, whose reference inputs are nonzero and not available to any agent in the network. In distributed fashion, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Yu Zhao , Zhisheng Duan , Zhongkui Li

In this paper, we propose a decentralized coordina- tion algorithm for safe and efficient management of a group of mobile robots following predefined paths in a dynamic industrial environment. The proposed algorithm is based on a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Dario Marino , Adriano Fagiolini , Lucia Pallottino