Constructing and maintaining a formation is critical in applications of cooperative control of multi-agent systems. In this research we address the formation control
problem of generating a formation for a group of nonholonomic mobile agents. The
formation control scheme proposed in this work is based on a fusion of leader-follower
and virtual reference approaches. This scheme gives a formation constraint representation that is independent of the number of agents in the formation and the resulting
control algorithm is scalable. One of the important desired features in controller design is that the formation errors defined by formation constraints should be stabilized
globally and exponentially by the controller. The proposed controller is based on
feedback linearization, and formation errors are shown to be globally exponentially
stable in the sense of Lyapunov. Since formation errors are stabilized globally, the
proposed controller is applicable to both formation keeping and formation construction problems. As a possible application, the proposed algorithm is implemented in
a cooperative ground moving target surveillance scenario. The proposed algorithm
enables the determination of the minimal number of agents required for surveillance
of a moving target. The number of agents returned by this scheme is not optimal
and hence is a conservative solution. However, this is justified by the computational
savings the scheme offers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3203 |
| Date | 15 May 2009 |
| Creators | Woo, Sang-Bum |
| Contributors | Jayasuriya, Suhada |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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