Bearing‐Only Constant and Time‐Varying Formation Tracking Control for Vertical Take‐Off and Landing UAVs
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DOI: 10.1002/rnc.70095
Abstract: This paper employs bearing‐only measurements to address both constant and time‐varying formation tracking control for Vertical Take‐off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The time‐varying formation control paradigm is essential for practical scenarios where agents… read more here.
Keywords: control; formation tracking; time varying; formation ... See more keywords
Homogeneous Observer‐Based Affine Formation Tracking
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DOI: 10.1002/rnc.70308
Abstract: This article addresses the control of mobile agents, termed followers, to track a time‐varying affine formation specified by a set of leaders. We present a distributed hierarchical method composed of a homogeneous high‐order sliding mode… read more here.
Keywords: affine formation; formation tracking; observer based; based affine ... See more keywords
Resilient Formation Tracking for Networked Swarm Systems Under Malicious Data Deception Attacks
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DOI: 10.1002/rnc.7777
Abstract: A distributed time‐varying formation tracking method for a leader‐following networked swarm system in the presence of malicious deception attacks is proposed in this paper. Both state and output equations are injected with false data by… read more here.
Keywords: deception attacks; formation tracking; resilient formation; networked swarm ... See more keywords
Fully Distributed Fuzzy Adaptive Output Time‐Varying Formation Tracking for Heterogeneous Nonlinear Multiagent Systems
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DOI: 10.1002/rnc.7953
Abstract: This article investigates the fully distributed output time‐varying formation tracking issue for heterogeneous nonlinear multiagent systems on directed graphs, in which the tracking target is a general linear dynamic leader while the followers are composed… read more here.
Keywords: output time; formation tracking; time varying; output ... See more keywords
Fully distributed spherical formation tracking control for nonlinear vehicles with spatiotemporal uncertainties and digraphs
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DOI: 10.1007/s11071-020-05808-y
Abstract: This paper addresses the spherical formation tracking control problem of nonlinear vehicles under digraphs, where the dynamics of vehicle contains spatiotemporal uncertainties consisted of the mismatched and matched flowfields and model uncertainties. The novel cooperative… read more here.
Keywords: nonlinear vehicles; formation tracking; spatiotemporal uncertainties; tracking control ... See more keywords
Multi-group formation tracking control via impulsive strategy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2020.06.046
Abstract: Abstract This paper addresses multi-group formation tracking (MGFT) control problems for second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with multiple leaders via distributed impulsive control methods. The objective is to design formation tracking protocols such that agents… read more here.
Keywords: multi group; group formation; control; formation tracking ... See more keywords
Observer-based adaptive fixed-time formation control for multi-agent systems with unknown uncertainties
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2020.10.074
Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the fixed-time formation tracking control problem for multi-agent systems with model uncertainties and in absence of leader’s velocity measurements. For each follower, a novel fixed-time cascaded leader state observer (FTCLSO) without… read more here.
Keywords: control; formation tracking; time; fixed time ... See more keywords
Fixed‐time observer based adaptive neural network time‐varying formation tracking control for multi‐agent systems via minimal learning parameter approach
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DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2019.0309
Abstract: This study proposes a novel control scheme to investigate the time-varying formation tracking control problem for multi-agent systems with model uncertainties and the absence of leader's velocity measurements. For each agent, a novel fixed-time cascaded… read more here.
Keywords: varying formation; time varying; control; formation tracking ... See more keywords
The geometric convexity on SE(3) and its application to the formation tracking in multi-vehicle systems
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DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2017.1361043
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper considers the problem of geometric convexity on special Euclidean group SE(3) and its application to the formation tracking in multi-vehicle systems. Motivated by the convex hull on Euclidean space, the specific expression… read more here.
Keywords: application formation; geometric convexity; formation tracking; formation ... See more keywords
Observer-based formation tracking control for feedforward nonlinear multi-agent systems with dead-zone input
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DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2022.2076175
Abstract: In this paper, the formation tracking control problem is addressed for feedforward nonlinear multi-agent systems with dead-zone input. For each follower, a dynamic observer is constructed by the output information of itself and its neighbours.… read more here.
Keywords: nonlinear multi; formation tracking; control; agent systems ... See more keywords
Fast finite-time time-varying formation tracking control of multi-agent systems with external disturbance and region constraints
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DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2024.2344042
Abstract: In this paper, fast finite-time time-varying formation tracking control for second-order multi-agent systems with external disturbance and region constraints is investigated. The ubiquitous control input response delay is considered. A predictor-based state transformation is employed… read more here.
Keywords: finite time; time; control; fast finite ... See more keywords