This letter addresses to the problem of mobile agent deployment on a line segment. It is assumed that each agent receives information from some of its right and some of… Click to show full abstract
This letter addresses to the problem of mobile agent deployment on a line segment. It is assumed that each agent receives information from some of its right and some of its left neighbors. A linear control protocol is proposed ensuring the agent convergence to the equidistant distribution on the segment. In addition, the problem of nonlinearly-uniform (uniform with respect to a given nonlinear function) deployment of agents is studied, and new control laws are designed providing such a deployment. It is proved that the proposed protocols are robust with respect to communication delays and switching of network topology. The results of a numerical simulation are presented demonstrating the efficiency of the developed approaches.
               
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