Coordinated Guiding Vector Field Design for Ordering-Flexible Multi-Robot Surface Navigation

Autor: Hu, Bin-Bin, Zhang, Hai-Tao, Yao, Weijia, Sun, Zhiyong, Cao, Ming
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3355321
Popis: We design a distributed coordinated guiding vector field (CGVF) for a group of robots to achieve ordering-flexible motion coordination while maneuvering on a desired two-dimensional (2D) surface. The CGVF is characterized by three terms, i.e., a convergence term to drive the robots to converge to the desired surface, a propagation term to provide a traversing direction for maneuvering on the desired surface, and a coordinated term to achieve the surface motion coordination with an arbitrary ordering of the robotic group. By setting the surface parameters as additional virtual coordinates, the proposed approach eliminates the potential singularity of the CGVF and enables both the global convergence to the desired surface and the maneuvering on the surface from all possible initial conditions. The ordering-flexible surface motion coordination is realized by each robot to share with its neighbors only two virtual coordinates, i.e. that of a given target and that of its own, which reduces the communication and computation cost in multi-robot surface navigation. Finally, the effectiveness of the CGVF is substantiated by extensive numerical simulations.
Comment: Published on IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024
Databáze: arXiv