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Principle of Swarm Intelligence has recently found widespread application in formation control and automated tracking by the automated multi-agent system. This article proposes an elegant and effective method inspired by foraging dynamics…
This paper provides a solution to the problem of safe region formation control with reference velocity tracking for a second-order multi-agent system without velocity measurements. Safe region formation control is a control problem where…
Dimensionality reduction represents the process of generating a low dimensional representation of high dimensional data. Motivated by the formation control of mobile agents, we propose a nonlinear dynamical system for dimensionality…
This paper studies output feedback consensus protocol design problems for linear multi-agent systems with directed graphs. We consider both leaderless and leader-follower consensus with a leader whose control input is nonzero and bounded.…
Geometric pattern formation is crucial in many tasks involving large-scale multi-agent systems. Examples include mobile agents performing surveillance, swarm of drones or robots, or smart transportation systems. Currently, most control…
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…
We address the design of decentralized feedback control laws inducing consensus and prescribed spatial patterns over a singular interacting particle system of Cucker-Smale type. The control design consists of a feedback term regulating the…
This paper presents a novel approach employing prescribed performance control to address the distributed fault-tolerant formation control problem in a heterogeneous UAV-UGV cooperative system under a directed interaction topology and…
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a robust motion formation distributed control algorithm for a team of mobile robots. The primary task for the team is to form a geometric shape, which can be freely translated and…
This paper proposes a novel method for formation path following of multiple underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles. The method combines line-of-sight guidance with null-space-based behavioral control, allowing the vehicles to follow…
This paper addresses the challenges of distributed formation control in multiple mobile robots, introducing a novel approach that enhances real-world practicability. We first introduce a distributed estimator using a variable structure and…
This paper presents a generalized robust stability analysis for bearing-based formation control and network localization systems. For an undirected network, we provide a robust stability analysis in the presence of time-varying exogenous…
Fish use their lateral lines to sense flows and pressure gradients, enabling them to detect nearby objects and organisms. Towards replicating this capability, we demonstrated successful leader-follower formation swimming using flow pressure…
We present a distributed formation control strategy for agents with a variety of dynamics to achieve a desired planar formation. Our approach is based on the barycentric-coordinate-based (BCB) control, which is fully distributed, does not…
This paper addresses distributed robust learning-based control for consensus formation tracking of multiple underwater vessels, in which the system parameters of the marine vessels are assumed to be entirely unknown and subject to the…
A wide range of applications require or can benefit from collaborative behavior of a group of agents. The technical challenge addressed in this chapter is the development of a decentralized control strategy that enables each agent to…
We consider the design of optimal localized feedback gains for one-dimensional formations in which vehicles only use information from their immediate neighbors. The control objective is to enhance coherence of the formation by making it…
This published paper investigates the distributed tracking control problem for a class of Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems when the agents can only measure the positions. In this case, the lack of the separation principle and the strong…
The schooling behavior of fish is hypothesized to confer many survival benefits, including foraging success, safety from predators, and energy savings through hydrodynamic interactions when swimming in formation. Underwater robot…
This paper focuses on securing a triangular shape (up to translation) for a team of three mobile robots that uses heterogeneous sensing mechanism. Based on the available local information, each robot employs the popular gradient-based…