Title
Leader–follower formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots with input constraints
Abstract
The paper deals with leader–follower formations of nonholonomic mobile robots, introducing a formation control strategy alternative to those existing in the literature. Robots’ control inputs are forced to satisfy suitable constraints that restrict the set of leader possible paths and admissible positions of the follower with respect to the leader. A peculiar characteristic of the proposed strategy is that the follower position is not rigidly fixed with respect to the leader but varies in proper circle arcs centered in the leader reference frame.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.automatica.2007.09.019
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Formations control,Autonomous mobile robots,Input constraints,Geometric approach,Stabilization
Reference frame,Leader follower,Control theory,Control engineering,Artificial intelligence,Nonholonomic mobile robot,Autonomous system (mathematics),Robot,Robotics,Mathematics,restrict
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
5
0005-1098
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
73
3.58
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Consolini127631.16
Fabio Morbidi226019.28
Domenico Prattichizzo32079177.15
Mario Tosques420516.95