Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Volume 65, Issue 8, Pages 3365-3380Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2019.2946333
Keywords
Robots; Collision avoidance; Trajectory; Safety; Switches; Task analysis; Switched systems; Agents and autonomous systems; autonomous robots; cooperative control; Lyapunov-like barrier functions; multi-robot systems and control; multiple Lyapunov functions
Funding
- U.S. Army Research Laboratory [W911NF-08-2-0004]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-09-1-1051]
- TerraSwarm, one of six centers of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation - Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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This article considers the problem of decentralized goal assignment and trajectory generation for multirobot networks when only local communication is available and proposes an approach based on methods related to switched systems and set invariance. A family of Lyapunov-like functions is employed to encode the (local) decision making among candidate goal assignments, under which a group of connected agents chooses the assignment that results in the shortest total distance to the goals. An additional family of Lyapunov-like barrier functions is activated in the case when the optimal assignment may lead to colliding trajectories, maintaining thus system safety while preserving the convergence guarantees. The proposed switching strategies give rise to feedback control policies that are computationally efficient and scalable with the number of agents and, therefore, suitable for applications, including first-response deployment of robotic networks under limited information sharing. The efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated via simulation results and experiments with six ground robots.
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