Title
Distributed formation building algorithms for groups of wheeled mobile robots
Abstract
The paper presents a method for decentralized flocking and global formation building for a network of unicycle-like robots described by the standard kinematics equations with hard constraints on the robots linear and angular velocities. We propose decentralized motion coordination control algorithms for the robots so that they collectively move in a desired geometric pattern from any initial position. There are no predefined leaders in the group and only local information is required for the control. The effectiveness of the proposed control algorithms is illustrated via computer simulations and experiments with real robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.robot.2015.08.006
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Decentralized control,Multi-robot networks,Formation stabilization,Flocking,Wheeled robots,Non-holonomic robots,Autonomous vehicles
Convergence (routing),Flocking (texture),Robot control,Kinematics,Decentralised system,Kinematics equations,Simulation,Computer science,Algorithm,Robot,Mobile robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
75
PB
0921-8890
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.41
25
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrey V. Savkin11431178.60
Chao Wang2575.28
Ahmad Baranzadeh3192.58
Zhiyu Xi4567.44
Hung T. Nguyen537256.85