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 …

[کتاب][B] Cooperative control design: a systematic, passivity-based approach

H Bai, M Arcak, J Wen - 2011‏ - books.google.com
Cooperative Control Design: A Systematic, Passivity-Based Approach discusses multi-agent
coordination problems, including formation control, attitude coordination, and …

Distance‐based undirected formations of single‐integrator and double‐integrator modeled agents in n‐dimensional space

KK Oh, HS Ahn - International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
We study the local asymptotic stability of undirected formations of single‐integrator and
double‐integrator modeled agents based on interagent distance control. First, we show that …

UAV formation control: Theory and application

BDO Anderson, B Fidan, C Yu, D Walle - Recent advances in learning and …, 2008‏ - Springer
Unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) are finding use in military operations and starting to
find use in civilian operations. UAVs often fly in formation, meaning that the distances …

Geometric analysis of the formation problem for autonomous robots

F Dörfler, B Francis - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the formation control problem for autonomous robots, a distributed control law steers the
robots to the desired target formation. A local stability result of the target formation can be …

Multi-agent formation tracking for autonomous surface vehicles

R Ringbäck, J Wei, ES Erstorp… - … on Control Systems …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, the problem of collaborative tracking of an underwater target using
autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) is studied. Distance-based formation control with a …

Control of minimally persistent formations in the plane

C Yu, BDO Anderson, S Dasgupta, B Fidan - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2009‏ - SIAM
This paper studies the problem of controlling the shape of a formation of point agents in the
plane. A model is considered where the distance between certain agent pairs is maintained …

Formation shape control with distance and area constraints

BDO Anderson, Z Sun, T Sugie, S Azuma… - IFAC Journal of Systems …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This paper discusses a formation control problem in which a target formation is defined with
both distance and signed area constraints. The control objective is to drive spatially …

[PDF][PDF] Maintaining a directed, triangular formation of mobile autonomous agents

BDO Anderson, M Cao, S Dasgupta, AS Morse… - … in information and …, 2011‏ - Citeseer
This paper analyzes a class of distributed control laws which encompasses and generalizes
three previously considered types of control laws for maintaining a triangular formation in the …