Distributed formation maneuver control by manipulating the complex Laplacian

09/16/2020
by   Hector Garcia de Marina, et al.
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This paper proposes a novel maneuvering technique for the complex-Laplacian-based formation control. We show how to modify the original weights that build the Laplacian such that a designed steady-state motion of the desired shape emerges from the local interactions among the agents. These collective motions can be exploited to solve problems such as the shaped consensus (the rendezvous with a particular shape), the enclosing of a target, or translations with controlled speed and heading to assist mobile robots in area coverage, escorting, and traveling missions, respectively. The designed steady-state collective motions correspond to rotations around the centroid, translations, and scalings of a reference shape. The proposed modification of the weights relocates one of the Laplacian's zero eigenvalues while preserving its associated eigenvector that constructs the desired shape. For example, such relocation on the imaginary or real axis induces rotational and scaling motions, respectively. We will show how to satisfy a sufficient condition to guarantee the global convergence to the desired shape and motions. Finally, we provide simulations and comparisons with other maneuvering techniques.

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