A new coordinated path-following control for second-order multi-agent systems

This paper addresses the problem of coordinately steering a group of agents under directed information flow along three-dimensional (3-D) reference paths with spatial but without temporal constraints. Based on a novel 3-D algebraic implicit path-following control methodology, a new coordinated path-following control algorithm accounting for large initial positions disagreement is proposed such that all the agents in the group reach the spatial path with negotiated speed profiles and ultimately realize the position coordination on the path. To validate the correctness of the proposed concept, simulation result is included in the end.