A survey of multi-agent systems on distributed formation control

Y Liu, J Liu, Z He, Z Li, Q Zhang, Z Ding - Unmanned Systems, 2024 - World Scientific
Multi-agent formation control is an important part of distributed perception and cooperation,
which is convenient to complete various complex tasks and would be a key research …

A survey of multi-agent formation control

KK Oh, MC Park, HS Ahn - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a survey of formation control of multi-agent systems. Focusing on the sensing
capability and the interaction topology of agents, we categorize the existing results into …

Bearing rigidity and almost global bearing-only formation stabilization

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fundamental problem that the bearing rigidity theory studies is to determine when a
framework can be uniquely determined up to a translation and a scaling factor by its inter …

Distributed formation control of multi-agent systems using complex Laplacian

Z Lin, L Wang, Z Han, M Fu - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper concentrates on the fundamental coordination problem that requires a network of
agents to achieve a specific but arbitrary formation shape. A new technique based on …

Bearing-only formation tracking control of multiagent systems

S Zhao, Z Li, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of bearing-only formation control of multiagent systems,
where the control of each agent merely relies on the relative bearings to its neighbors …

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) …

Bearing-based formation control of a group of agents with leader-first follower structure

MH Trinh, S Zhao, Z Sun, D Zelazo… - … on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies bearing-based formation control of a group of autonomous agents with
the leader-first follower (LFF) structure in an arbitrary dimensional space. First, the bearing …

Translational and scaling formation maneuver control via a bearing-based approach

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies distributed maneuver control of multiagent formations in arbitrary
dimensions. The objective is to control the translation and scale of the formation while …

Enclosing a target by nonholonomic mobile robots with bearing-only measurements

R Zheng, Y Liu, D Sun - Automatica, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of steering a single or a group of autonomous
nonholonomic mobile robots to enclose a target of interest. We develop control schemes …

Bearing rigidity theory and its applications for control and estimation of network systems: Life beyond distance rigidity

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed control and location estimation of multiagent systems have received tremendous
research attention in recent years because of their potential across many application …