Title :
The Rendezvous Problem With Discontinuous Control Policies
Author :
Conte, Giuseppe ; Pennesi, Paris
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ing. Inf., Gestionale e dell´´Autom., Univ. Politec. delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Abstract :
In this technical note we consider the multi-agent rendezvous problem and we state new sufficient conditions for characterizing the control policies that assure rendezvous. Our condition are less restrictive than those presented until now in the literature, since, in particular, continuity is substituted by a milder requirement concerning the behavior of the control laws around points of discontinuity. In addition, our results apply to groups of agents moving in ??n, for any finite n.
Keywords :
distributed control; multi-agent systems; sampled data systems; control law; discontinuous control policy; distributed control; multiagent rendezvous problem; Automatic control; Banking; Control system synthesis; Convergence; Differential equations; Distributed control; Failure analysis; Motion control; Multiagent systems; Sufficient conditions; Consensus; distributed control; multi-agent system; rendezvous;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAC.2009.2037249
