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 …

Self-aware swarm navigation in autonomous exploration missions

S Zhang, R Pöhlmann, T Wiedemann… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multitude of autonomous robotic platforms collectively organized as a swarm attracts
increasing attention for remote sensing and exploration tasks. A navigation system is …

Simultaneous localization and formation using angle-only measurements in 2D

L Chen, L **e, X Li, X Fang, M Feroskhan - Automatica, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper solves the simultaneous localization and formation (SLAF) problem for a multi-
agent system moving in 2D plane. The multi-agent system consists of leaders who have the …

Triangular angle rigidity for distributed localization in 2D

L Chen - Automatica, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Recent advances in sensing technology have enabled sensor nodes to measure interior
angles with respect to their neighboring nodes. However, it is unknown which combination …

Neural network-based formation control with target tracking for second-order nonlinear multiagent systems

K Aryankia, RR Selmic - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a distance-based formation control and target tracking for multiagent
systems, where agents are modeled using second-order nonlinear systems in the presence …

[HTML][HTML] Underwater bearing-only and bearing-Doppler target tracking based on square root unscented Kalman filter

X Li, C Zhao, J Yu, W Wei - Entropy, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Underwater target tracking system can be kept covert using the bearing-only or the bearing-
Doppler measurements (passive measurements), which will reduce the risk of been …

Localization and tracking control of autonomous vehicles in time-varying bearing formation

Z Tang, A Loría - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes an observer-based formation tracking control approach for multi-agent
velocity-controlled vehicles under the assumption that either relative or global position …

Infinitesimal shape-similarity for characterization and control of bearing-only multirobot formations

I Buckley, M Egerstedt - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When organizing robots into formations, the interplay between the underlying network
topology of the team and the sensing and communication modalities available to the …

Cooperative localization of a GPS-denied UAV using direction-of-arrival measurements

JS Russell, M Ye, BDO Anderson… - … on Aerospace and …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A GPS-denied unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)(Agent B) is localized through inertial
navigation system alignment with the aid of a nearby GPS-equipped UAV (Agent A), which …

Distance-based multiagent formation control with energy constraints using SDRE

R Babazadeh, R Selmic - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an optimal control method for distance-based formation control of multiagent
systems with energy constraints. We combine the rigid graph theory and state-dependent …