Attitude-synchronization flocking of multiple 3-dimensional nonholonomic agents without position measurement

作者:Zhao, Xiao-Wen; Guan, Zhi-Hong*; Hu, Bin; Liao, Rui-Quan; Zhang, Xian-He; He, Ding-Xin
来源:International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2018, 28(6): 2369-2382.
DOI:10.1002/rnc.4026

摘要

This paper studies the attitude-synchronization flocking problem for multiple 3-dimensional nonholonomic agents. By analyzing the nonlinearity of the nonholonomic model and invoking the neighbor-based design principle, we develop a distributed linear control protocol with the local information from each agent and its neighbors in proximity, especially, no position measurement is employed. Based on max-min and Lyapunov stability theory, the proposed distributed control protocol can ensure the 3 flocking rules and attitude synchronization meanwhile, if collision avoidance and communication connectivity are guaranteed at the initial time. Additionally, numerical simulations are provided to verify the theoretical results.