Accession Number:
AD1005968
Title:
Maintaining Limited-Range Connectivity Among Second-Order Agents
Descriptive Note:
Journal Article
Corporate Author:
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara United States
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Report Date:
2016-07-07
Pagination or Media Count:
19.0
Abstract:
In this paper we consider ad-hoc networks of robotic agents with double integrator dynamics. For such networks, the connectivity maintenance problems are i do there exist control inputs for each agent to maintain network connectivity, and ii given desired controls for each agent, can one compute the closest connectivity-maintaining controls in a distributed fashion. The proposed solution is based on three contributions. First, we define and characterize admissible sets for double integrators to remain inside disks. Second, we establish an existence theorem for the connectivity maintenance problem by introducing a novel state-dependent graph, called the double-integrator disk graph. Finally, we design a distributed flow-control algorithm to compute optimal connectivity-maintaining controls.
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Subject Categories:
- Operations Research
- Computer Systems
- Cybernetics