Abstract
Formation control is concerned with the design of control laws that stabilize agents at given distances from each other, with the constraint that an agent's dynamics only depends on a subset of other agents. We show in this technical note that a broad class of control laws fails to stabilize a simple formation with four agents. The novelty of the approach used in this technical note lies in the use of bifurcation theory to show that, for almost all control laws, there exists a stable undesired equilibrium.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 6475974 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2148-2153 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Bifurcations
- Decentralized control
- Formation control
- Global stability
- Singularities
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering