Practical multiagent rendezvous through modified circumcenter algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Sonia Martínez

  • Affiliations:
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0411, USA

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a class of modified circumcenter algorithms that allow a group of agents to achieve ''practical rendezvous'' when they are only able to take noisy measurements of their neighbors. Assuming a uniform detection probability in a disk of radius @s about each neighbor's true position, we show how initially connected agents converge to a practical stability ball. More precisely, a deterministic analysis allows us to guarantee convergence to such a ball under r-disk graph connectivity in 1D under the condition that r/@s be sufficiently large. A stochastic analysis leads to a similar convergence result in probability, but for any r/@s1, and under a sequence of switching graphs that contains a connected graph within bounded time intervals. We include several simulations to discuss the performance of the proposed algorithms.