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Distributed Localization and Tracking Control for Nonholonomic Agents with Time-varying Bearing Formation (2306.10749v1)

Published 19 Jun 2023 in eess.SY, cs.MA, and cs.SY

Abstract: This paper studies the bearing-based time-varying formation control problem for unicycle-type agents without bearing rigidity conditions. In the considered problem, only a small set of agents, named as anchors, can obtain their global positions, and the other agents only have access to the bearing information relative to their neighbors. To address the problem, we propose a novel scheme integrating the distributed localization algorithm and the observer-based formation tracking controller. The designed localization algorithm estimates the global position by using inter-agent bearing measurements, and the observer-based controller tracks the desired formation with the estimated positions. A key distinction of our approach is extending the localization-and-tracking control scheme to the bearing-based coordination of nonholonomic systems, where the desired inter-agent bearings can be time-varying, instead of the constant ones assumed in most of the existing researches. The asymptotic stability of the coupled localization-and-tracking control system is proved, and simulations are carried out to validate the theoretical analysis.

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