Abstract
This paper studies the problem of affine transformation-based guidance of a multi-quadcopter system (MQS) in an obstacle-laden environment. Such MQSs can perform a variety of cooperative tasks including information collection, inspection mapping, disinfection, and firefighting. The MQS affine transformation is an approach to a decentralized leaderfollower coordination guided by n +1 leaders, where leaders are located at vertices of an n-D simplex, called leading simplex, at any time t. The remaining agents are followers acquiring the desired affine transformation via local communication. Followers are contained in a rigid-size ball at any time t but they can be distributed either inside or outside the leading simplex. By eigendecomposition of the affine transformation coordination, safety in a large-scale MQS coordination can be ensured by constraining eigenvalues of the affine transformation. Given the initial and final configurations of the MQS, A* search is applied to optimally plan safe coordination of a large-scale MQS minimizing the travel distance between the the initial and final configuration. The paper also proposes a proximity-based communication topo
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems |
DOIs | |
State | Accepted/In press - 2021 |
Keywords
- Affine Transformation
- and Local Communication
- Collision avoidance
- Decentralized Control
- Indexes
- Large-Scale Coordination
- Matrix decomposition
- Planning
- Safety
- Safety
- Stability
- Strain
- Topology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Signal Processing
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Control and Optimization