Decentralized multi-robot encirclement of a 3D target with guaranteed collision avoidance

被引:87
作者
Franchi, Antonio [1 ,2 ]
Stegagno, Paolo [3 ]
Oriolo, Giuseppe [4 ]
机构
[1] CNRS, LAAS, 7 Ave Colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, France
[2] Univ Toulouse, LAAS, F-31400 Toulouse, France
[3] Max Planck Inst Biol Cybernet, Spemannstr 38, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany
[4] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Ingn Informat Automat & Gest, Via Ariosto 25, I-00185 Rome, Italy
关键词
Distributed robot systems; Motion control; Multi-robot decentralized control; Encirclement; Escorting; Entrapment; PLANAR COLLECTIVE MOTION; STABILITY; CONSENSUS; SYSTEMS; STABILIZATION; GENERATION; STRATEGIES; DESIGN;
D O I
10.1007/s10514-015-9450-3
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
We present a control framework for achieving encirclement of a target moving in 3D using a multi-robot system. Three variations of a basic control strategy are proposed for different versions of the encirclement problem, and their effectiveness is formally established. An extension ensuring maintenance of a safe inter-robot distance is also discussed. The proposed framework is fully decentralized and only requires local communication among robots; in particular, each robot locally estimates all the relevant global quantities. We validate the proposed strategy through simulations on kinematic point robots and quadrotor UAVs, as well as experiments on differential-drive wheeled mobile robots.
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页码:245 / 265
页数:21
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