Title :
Collision-free motion coordination of unicycle multi-agent systems
Author :
Kostic, D. ; Adinandra, S. ; Caarls, J. ; Nijmeijer, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
fDate :
June 30 2010-July 2 2010
Abstract :
We propose a method for collision-free motion coordination of a group of unicycle agents. Under constraints on control signals, this method guarantees asymptotic tracking of the reference trajectories of all individual agents. The motion coordination is established by mutual coupling of coordinates of the interacting agents. For stronger couplings, the robustness of motion coordination to perturbations is increased. A collision avoidance algorithm is formulated to gain additional robustness against perturbations. The proposed control method is successfully validated in experiments.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; mobile robots; motion control; multi-agent systems; asymptotic tracking; collision avoidance algorithm; collision-free motion coordination; interacting agent coordinates; mutual coupling; unicycle multiagent system; Collision avoidance; Control systems; Mobile robots; Motion control; Multiagent systems; Mutual coupling; Nonlinear control systems; Robustness; Trajectory; Transportation; Coordinated control; collision avoidance; control of non-holonomic systems; stability of nonlinear systems;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference (ACC), 2010
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7426-4
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2010.5530852