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A Switched Control Strategy for Avoiding Flip Ambiguities in 3D Formations

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Abstract

Flip ambiguities are a notorious issue with distance-based formation control due to the presence of unwanted equilibrium points in the formation dynamics. We propose a switched control system for preventing these ambiguities in 3D formations composed of tetrahedra. The approach contains a switching strategy that steers the formation of mobile robots towards the desired configuration for all initial positions, excluding certain collocated, collinear, or coplanar cases, by applying the standard distance-based controller and/or rigid-body maneuvers to subformations. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed formation control system can lead to faster formation acquisition and less control effort than an existing method.

Original languageEnglish
Article number39
JournalJournal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications
Volume110
Issue number1
Early online dateFeb 23 2024
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 23 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Formation control
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Nonlinear Control

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