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Formation control for nonholonomic agents using passivity techniques

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  • State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China

Received date: 2009-04-14

  Revised date: 2009-11-09

  Online published: 2010-01-01

Abstract

This paper studies the problem of the formation control for the multiple nonholonomic agents on a plane. A dynamic feedback linearization method is used to transform the dynamical model of each agent into two third-order integrator chains. A decentralized formation control law with the inter-agent damping injection is derived. The asymptotical stability of the overall system is proven using the Lyapunov method. The simulation of the formation maneuver of a planar vehicle shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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WU Fan;GENG Zhi-Yong . Formation control for nonholonomic agents using passivity techniques[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2010 , 31(1) : 27 -36 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-010-0104-x

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