Title :
On the state agreement problem for multiple unicycles
Author :
Dimarogonas, Dimos V. ; Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Zografou
Abstract :
In this contribution, a feedback control strategy that drives a system of multiple nonholonomic kinematic unicycles to agreement is introduced. Each agent is assigned with a specific subset of the rest of the team, called the agent´s communication set, that includes the agents with which it can communicate in order to achieve the desired objective. The proposed nonholonomic control law is discontinuous and time-invariant and tools from nonsmooth stability theory and graph theory are used to check the stability of the overall system. Similarly to the linear case, the convergence of the multi-agent system relies on the connectivity of the communication graph that represents the inter-agent communication topology
Keywords :
feedback; graph theory; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; robot kinematics; stability; communication graph; discontinuous control; feedback control; graph theory; interagent communication topology; multiagent system; multiple nonholonomic kinematic unicycles; nonholonomic control law; nonsmooth stability theory; time-invariant control; Communication system control; Control systems; Convergence; Feedback control; Graph theory; Mobile communication; Multiagent systems; Navigation; Stability; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2006
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0209-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0209-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2006.1656516