On the tight formation for multi-agent dynamical systems

  • Authors:
  • Ionela Prodan;Sorin Olaru;Cristina Stoica;Silviu-Iulian Niculescu

  • Affiliations:
  • Automatic Control Department, SUPELEC Systems Sciences (E3S), Gif sur Yvette, France,Laboratory of Signal and Systems, SUPELEC CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France;Automatic Control Department, SUPELEC Systems Sciences (E3S), Gif sur Yvette, France;Automatic Control Department, SUPELEC Systems Sciences (E3S), Gif sur Yvette, France;Laboratory of Signal and Systems, SUPELEC CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'12 Proceedings of the 6th KES international conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: technologies and applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper addresses the real-time control of multiple agents in the presence of disturbances and non-convex collision avoidance constraints. The goal is to guarantee the convergence towards a tight formation. A single optimal control problem is solved based on a prediction of the future evolution of the system and the resulting controller is implemented in a centralized way. At the supervision level, it is shown that the decision about which agents should take on what role in the desired tight formation is equivalent with a classical pairing (or task assignment) problem. Furthermore, the pairing is re-evaluated at each iteration. The proposed method exhibits effective performance validated through some illustrative examples.