Control of Triangle Formations with a Mix of Angle and Distance Constraints

Date

2012

Authors

Bishop, Adrian
Summers, Tyler
Anderson, Brian

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

IEEE Control Systems Society

Abstract

A distributed control law for triangular formation control with a mixture of bearing and range measurements and relative pair-wise inter-agent angle constraints and a single range constraint is introduced. The control law is weak in the sense that two agents are free to choose their own heading within a relatively large range of values. Indeed, the agents can determine their heading independently at run-time given any criteria they desire as long as certain relaxed conditions are met. A convergence result is established that ensures the desired formation configuration is asymptotically stable. Illustrative examples are provided to demonstrate the claims.

Description

Keywords

Keywords: Angle constraint; Asymptotically stable; Control laws; Convergence results; Distance constraints; Distributed control law; Formation control; Illustrative examples; Range constraints; Range measurements; Relaxed conditions; Runtimes; Control

Citation

Source

Type

Conference paper

Book Title

Entity type

Access Statement

License Rights

Restricted until

2037-12-31