Stabilization of Multiple Robots on Stable Orbits via Local Sensing

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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Hsieh, Mong-Ying A
Loizou, Savvas
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We develop decentralized controllers for a team of disk-shaped robots to converge to and circulate along the boundary of a desired two-dimensional geometric pattern specified by a smooth function with collision avoidance. The proposed feedback controllers rely solely on each robot's range and bearing sensors which allow them to obtain information about positions of neighbors within a given range. This is relevant for applications such as perimeter surveillance or containing hazardous regions where limited bandwidth must be preserved for situational awareness. The computational complexity of the decentralized controller for each agent is linear in the number of neighboring agents, making it scalable to robot swarms. We establish stability and convergence properties of the controllers and verify the feasibility of the method through computer simulations.

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2007-04-10
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Copyright 2007 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA '07, April 2007, pages 2312-2317. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Pennsylvania's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
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