Journal
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
Volume 86, Issue 1, Pages 605-622Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-016-2910-2
Keywords
Formation control; Nonholonomic wheeled robots; Neural network; Graph theory; Filippov solution
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Funding
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [YWF-14-RSC-032, YWF-15-SYS-JTXY-007, YWF-16-BJ-Y-21]
- Laboratoire international associe
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61403019, 61503016]
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This paper investigates the distributed formation control problem for multiple nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots. A variable transformation is first proposed to convert the formation control problem into a state consensus problem. Then, when the dynamics of the mobile robots are considered, the distributed kinematic controllers and neural network torque controllers are derived for each robot such that a group of nonholonomic mobile robots asymptotically converge to a desired geometric pattern along the specified reference trajectory. The specified reference trajectory is assumed to be the trajectory of a virtual leader whose information is available to only a subset of the followers. Also the followers are assumed to have only local interaction. Moreover, the neural network torque controllers proposed in this work can tackle the dynamics of robots with unmodeled bounded disturbances and unstructured unmodeled dynamics. Some sufficient conditions are derived for accomplish the asymptotically stability of the systems based on algebraic graph theory, matrix theory, and Lyapunov control approach. Finally, simulation examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.
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