Title :
Leader-following rendezvous with connectivity preservation of single-integrator multi-agent systems
Author :
Yi Dong ; Jie Huang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. & Autom. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
This paper studies the problem of leader-following rendezvous with connectivity preservation for a linear multiagent system where the leader system is a linear autonomous system and the follower system is a multiple single-integrator system. We develop a distributed state feedback control protocol to maintain the connectivity of the system and, at the same time, to achieve asymptotic tracking of all followers to the output of the leader system.
Keywords :
distributed control; linear systems; multi-robot systems; observers; state feedback; asymptotic tracking; connectivity preservation; distributed state feedback control protocol; leader-following rendezvous; linear autonomous system; linear multi-agent system; single-integrator multi-agent system; Educational institutions; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Multi-agent systems; State feedback; Symmetric matrices; Trajectory; Single integrator; connectivity preservation; multi-agent systems; rendezvous;
Journal_Title :
Automatica Sinica, IEEE/CAA Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JAS.2014.7004615