Distributed cooperative control and collision avoidance for multiple kinematic agents

Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages721-726
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)1424401712, 9781424401710
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Dec 13 2006Dec 15 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Other

Other45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, CDC
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period12/13/0612/15/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Control and Optimization

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