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 …

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 …

A survey of an intelligent multi-agent formation control

Q Chen, Y Wang, Y **, T Wang, X Nie, T Yan - Applied Sciences, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
We present an overview of formation control for multi-agent systems. Multi-agent formation
cooperation is important to accomplish assigned tasks more efficiently and safely compared …

Agile coordination and assistive collision avoidance for quadrotor swarms using virtual structures

D Zhou, Z Wang, M Schwager - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for controlling a swarm of quadrotors to perform agile
interleaved maneuvers while holding a fixed relative formation, or transitioning between …

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 …

Distributed multi-robot formation control in dynamic environments

J Alonso-Mora, E Montijano, T Nägeli, O Hilliges… - Autonomous …, 2019‏ - Springer
This paper presents a distributed method for formation control of a homogeneous team of
aerial or ground mobile robots navigating in environments with static and dynamic …

A distributed optimization framework for localization and formation control: Applications to vision-based measurements

R Tron, J Thomas, G Loianno… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent systems have been a major area of research for the last 15 years. This interest
has been motivated by tasks that can be executed more rapidly in a collaborative manner or …

Vision-based distributed formation control without an external positioning system

E Montijano, E Cristofalo, D Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a fully distributed solution to drive a team of robots to reach a
desired formation in the absence of an external positioning system that localizes them. Our …