TY - GEN
T1 - Further results on formation infeasibility and velocity alignment
AU - Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
AU - Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In previous work, we deduced that formation infeasibility results in velocity alignment in multi-agent systems with bidirectional communication topology and single integrator as well as nonholonomic kinematics. This paper contains additional results regarding the connection between formation infeasibility and velocity alignment. In particular, we obtain an analytic expression for the resulting common velocity vector in the case of formation infeasibility and extend the results to the case of unidirectional communication topology. The results are then extended to the case of a leader-follower architecture in which the followers are not aware of a global objective while the leaders are responsible for driving the team to the interior of a desired leader formation. When this formation is infeasible, we show that both leaders and followers attain a common velocity vector, of which an analytic expression is also provided. Computer simulations support the derived results.
AB - In previous work, we deduced that formation infeasibility results in velocity alignment in multi-agent systems with bidirectional communication topology and single integrator as well as nonholonomic kinematics. This paper contains additional results regarding the connection between formation infeasibility and velocity alignment. In particular, we obtain an analytic expression for the resulting common velocity vector in the case of formation infeasibility and extend the results to the case of unidirectional communication topology. The results are then extended to the case of a leader-follower architecture in which the followers are not aware of a global objective while the leaders are responsible for driving the team to the interior of a desired leader formation. When this formation is infeasible, we show that both leaders and followers attain a common velocity vector, of which an analytic expression is also provided. Computer simulations support the derived results.
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U2 - 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434680
DO - 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434680
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:62749127872
SN - 1424414989
SN - 9781424414987
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 1447
EP - 1452
BT - Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2007, CDC
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2007, CDC
Y2 - 12 December 2007 through 14 December 2007
ER -