Consensus and formation control on SE(3) for switching topologies

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DOI10.1016/J.AUTOMATICA.2015.12.035zbMATH Open1335.93014arXiv1511.00240OpenAlexW2964014270MaRDI QIDQ254553FDOQ254553


Authors: Johan Thunberg, Jorge Goncalves, Xiaoming Hu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 March 2016

Published in: Automatica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper addresses the consensus problem and the formation problem on SE(3) in multi-agent systems with directed and switching interconnection topologies. Several control laws are introduced for the consensus problem. By a simple transformation, it is shown that the proposed control laws can be used for the formation problem. The design is first conducted on the kinematic level, where the velocities are the control laws. Then, for rigid bodies in space, the design is conducted on the dynamic level, where the torques and the forces are the control laws. On the kinematic level, first two control laws are introduced that explicitly use Euclidean transformations, then separate control laws are defined for the rotations and the translations. In the special case of purely rotational motion, the consensus problem is referred to as consensus on SO(3) or attitude synchronization. In this problem, for a broad class of local representations or parameterizations of SO(3), including the Axis-Angle Representation, the Rodrigues Parameters and the Modified Rodrigues Parameters, two types of control laws are presented that look structurally the same for any choice of local representation. For these two control laws we provide conditions on the initial rotations and the connectivity of the graph such that the system reaches consensus on SO(3). Among the contributions of this paper, there are conditions for when exponential rate of convergence occur. A theorem is provided showing that for any choice of local representation for the rotations, there is a change of coordinates such that the transformed system has a well known structure.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00240




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