Virtual leaders, artificial potentials and coordinated control of groups

By Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Edward Fiorelli. 2001

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Coordination and Geometric Optimization via Distributed Dynamical Systems (2003, background): “Recent years have witnessed a large research effort focused on motion planning and formation control problems for multi-vehicle systems [12, 18, 19, 20, 24, 30, 31].”
Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control for Formations of Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Uncertain Dynamics (2013, methodology): “2181513 [1]–[4], virtual structure method [5], behavioral approach [6], [7], graph theory-based method [8]–[11], artificial potential mechanism [12]–[14], and so on.”
Time-optimal path planning in dynamic flows using level set equations: theory and schemes (2014, methodology): “Coordinated path planning,1074 which has been extensively studied and developed re-1075 cently (Leonard and Fiorelli, 2001; Paley et al, 2008;1076 Leonard et al, 2007), renders certain types of missions1077 possible, which otherwise, could not be executed by1078 single-vehicle systems.”
Finite-Time Formation Control of Under-Actuated Ships Using Nonlinear Sliding Mode Control (2018, background): “tion approach [24], leader–follower approach [25], and so forth.”
Formation Tracking Control of Unicycle-Type Mobile Robots With Limited Sensing Ranges (2008, methodology): “, [2], [7], [11], [13], [14], and [17]) or fully actuated vehicles [6] (which can be converted to double-integrator dynamics via a feedback linearization) were investigated.”
Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles (2005, background): “In addition to the references men tioned so far, mathematical analysis and control synthesis for formation control of point-mass type robots were developed in [6]–[8] by different approaches.”
Information flow and cooperative control of vehicle formations (2004, background): “The Perron–Frobenius theory can be found in many texts; the presentation here is based on material in [29]–[31].”
Decentralized control of vehicle formations (2005, background): “These include the coordinated control of mini-satellites, drone planes, and underwater vehicles [5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29].”
Decentralized policies for geometric pattern formation (2007, background): “Olfati-Saber and Murray [6] and Leonard et al. [ 7 ] used potential function theory to prescribe flocking behavior.”