TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed cooperative control and collision avoidance for multiple kinematic agents
AU - Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
AU - Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper contains two main contributions: (i) a provably correct distributed control strategy for collision avoidance and convergence of multiple holonomic agents to a desired feasible formation configuration and (ii) a connection between formation infeasibility and flocking behavior in holonomic kinematic multi-agent systems. In particular, it is shown that when inter-agent formation objectives cannot occur simultaneously in the state-space then, under certain assumptions, the agents velocity vectors and orientations converge to a common value at steady state, under the same control strategy that would lead to a feasible formation. Convergence guarantees are provided in both cases using tools from algebraic graph theory and Lyapunov analysis.
AB - This paper contains two main contributions: (i) a provably correct distributed control strategy for collision avoidance and convergence of multiple holonomic agents to a desired feasible formation configuration and (ii) a connection between formation infeasibility and flocking behavior in holonomic kinematic multi-agent systems. In particular, it is shown that when inter-agent formation objectives cannot occur simultaneously in the state-space then, under certain assumptions, the agents velocity vectors and orientations converge to a common value at steady state, under the same control strategy that would lead to a feasible formation. Convergence guarantees are provided in both cases using tools from algebraic graph theory and Lyapunov analysis.
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U2 - 10.1109/cdc.2006.376884
DO - 10.1109/cdc.2006.376884
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39549110332
SN - 1424401712
SN - 9781424401710
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 721
EP - 726
BT - Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC
Y2 - 13 December 2006 through 15 December 2006
ER -