Title
Decentralized Biconnectivity Conditions In Multi-Robot Systems
Abstract
The network connectivity in a group of cooperative robots can be easily broken if one of them loses its connectivity with the rest of the group. In case of having robustness with respect to one-robot failure, the communication network is termed biconnected. In simple words, to have a biconnected network graph, we need to prove that no articulation point exists. We propose a decentralized approach that provides sufficient conditions for biconnectivity of the network, and we prove that these conditions are related to the third smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix. Data exchange among the robots is supposed to be neighbor-to-neighbor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CDC.2016.7798253
2016 IEEE 55TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1608.02276
0743-1546
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehran Zareh1142.68
Lorenzo Sabattini239336.65
Cristian Secchi397781.94