期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
印刷版ISSN：1729-8806
电子版ISSN：1729-8814
出版年度：2015
卷号：12
DOI：10.5772/61944
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：This paper analyses the formation tracking of groups of mobile robots moving on the plane. A leader robot is chosen to follow a prescribed trajectory whilst the rest, considered as followers, are formed in an open-chain configuration. Two formation-tracking control laws using approximate velocities are proposed, in which some velocities must be communicated between robots in order to ensure the simultaneous preservation of the formation and the following of the group path. The main result is analysis of the convergence of the two proposed control laws. The restriction of inaccurate information occurs in decentralized multi-robot platforms, in which the mobile agents are only able to measure positions and the velocities’ functions are estimated using online numerical methods. A numerical simulation of both controllers in the case of omnidirectional robots is shown. For the case of the unicycle-type robots, real-time experiments of both controllers were implemented and tested.
