Mean-shift exploration in shape assembly of robot swarms

G Sun, R Zhou, Z Ma, Y Li, R Groß, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The fascinating collective behaviors of biological systems have inspired extensive studies
on shape assembly of robot swarms. Here, we propose a strategy for shape assembly of …

Local-bearing-based prescribed-time distributed localization of multiagent systems with noisy measurement

Y Lv, Z Wu, H Zhang, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates stability and localizability of local-bearing-based multiagent systems
without common orientation in the presence of measurement noise, which are more general …

Adaptive formation control of networked robotic systems with bearing-only measurements

X Li, C Wen, C Chen - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we address the bearing-only formation control problem of 3-D networked
robotic systems with parametric uncertainties. The contributions of this article are two-fold: 1) …

Three-dimensional bearing-only target following via observability-enhanced helical guidance

J Li, Z Ning, S He, CH Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of air-to-air target following of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs)
motivated by the application of defense against malicious MAVs. When the bearing of the …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on techniques in the circular formation of multi-agent systems

H Litimein, ZY Huang, A Hamza - Electronics, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Distributed control solutions to the multi-agent systems in terms of coordination, formation,
and consensus problems are extensively studied in the literature. The circular formation …

Affine formation maneuver control of high-order multi-agent systems over directed networks

Y Xu, S Zhao, D Luo, Y You - Automatica, 2020‏ - Elsevier
To drive a group of agents to maneuver continuously with the desired collective forms, this
paper addresses a distributed formation maneuver control problem of directed networked …

Angle rigidity and its usage to stabilize multiagent formations in 2-D

L Chen, M Cao, C Li - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by the challenging formation stabilization problem for mobile robotic teams
wherein no distance or relative position measurements are available but each robot can …

A bearing-angle approach for unknown target motion analysis based on visual measurements

Z Ning, Y Zhang, J Li, Z Chen… - … International Journal of …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Vision-based estimation of the motion of a moving target is usually formulated as a bearing-
only estimation problem where the visual measurement is modeled as a bearing vector …

Robust and efficient trajectory planning for formation flight in dense environments

L Quan, L Yin, T Zhang, M Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Formation flight has a vast potential for aerial robot swarms in various applications.
However, the existing methods lack the capability to achieve fully autonomous large-scale …

Adaptive bearing-only formation tracking control for nonholonomic multiagent systems

X Li, C Wen, X Fang, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we consider the formation tracking problem of nonholonomic multiagent
systems only using relative bearing measurements between the agents. Such a practical …