An overview of collaborative robotic manipulation in multi-robot systems

Z Feng, G Hu, Y Sun, J Soon - Annual Reviews in Control, 2020 - Elsevier
Robotic manipulation aims at combining the versatility and flexibility of mobile robot
platforms with manipulation capabilities of robot manipulators. This survey paper …

Output-feedback cooperative formation maneuvering of autonomous surface vehicles with connectivity preservation and collision avoidance

Z Peng, D Wang, T Li, M Han - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a cooperative time-varying formation maneuvering problem with connectivity
preservation and collision avoidance is investigated for a fleet of autonomous surface …

Time-varying formation control for general linear multi-agent systems with switching directed topologies

X Dong, G Hu - Automatica, 2016 - Elsevier
Time-varying formation analysis and design problems for multi-agent systems with general
linear dynamics and switching directed interaction topologies are investigated. Different from …

Leader–follower consensus of nonlinear time-delay multiagent systems: A time-varying gain approach

H Li, Q Liu, G Feng, X Zhang - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the leader–follower consensus problem is investigated for feedforward
nonlinear time-delay multiagent systems under a fixed directed topology. A novel static low …

An error transformation approach for connectivity-preserving and collision-avoiding formation tracking of networked uncertain underactuated surface vessels

BS Park, SJ Yoo - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a distributed connectivity-preserving and collision-avoiding
formation tracking problem of networked uncertain underactuated surface vessels (USVs) …

Semi-global output consensus for discrete-time switching networked systems subject to input saturation and external disturbances

H Su, Y Ye, Y Qiu, Y Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The semi-global output consensus problem for multiagent systems depicted by discrete-time
dynamics subject to external disturbances and input saturation over switching networks is …

A new fixed-time consensus tracking approach for second-order multiagent systems under directed communication topology

J Ni, Y Tang, P Shi - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers fixed-time consensus tracking of second-order multiagent systems
(MASs) under directed interaction topology. A novel distributed observer is presented to …

Distributed coordination of multiple unknown Euler-Lagrange systems

Z Feng, G Hu, W Ren, WE Dixon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A robust consensus tracking problem is addressed for multiple unknown Euler-Lagrange
systems where only a subset of the agents is informed of the desired time-varying trajectory …

Robust connectivity preserving rendezvous of multirobot systems under unknown dynamics and disturbances

Z Feng, C Sun, G Hu - IEEE transactions on control of network …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a robust connectivity preserving rendezvous problem for a leader-
following multirobot system. Only a small group of mobile robots is informed to have access …

Cooperative output regulation of linear multi-agent systems by a novel distributed dynamic compensator

M Lu, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the cooperative output regulation problem for heterogeneous linear
multi-agent systems by a distributed feedforward approach. In comparison with existing …