Journal
IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS
Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 1810-1820Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2295036
Keywords
Consensus filter; distributed control; multi-robots; source seeking
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [EFRI-1024660, IIS-1218155, CNS-1318748]
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1218155] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We consider the problem of source seeking using a group of mobile robots equipped with sensors for source concentration measurement. In the formulation, the robot team cooperatively estimates the gradient of the source field, moves to the source by tracing the gradient-ascending direction, and keeps a predefined formation in movement. We present two control algorithms with all-to-all and limited communications, respectively. For the case of all-to-all communication, rigorous analytic analysis proves that the formation center of the robots converges to the source in the presence of estimation errors with a bounded error, the upper bound of which is explicitly given. In the case of limited communication where centralized quantities are not available, distributed consensus filters are used to distributively estimate the centralized quantities, and then embedded in the distributed control laws. Numerical simulations are given to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. Experimental results on the E-puck robot platform demonstrate satisfactory performances in a light source seeking application.
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