Collaborative Safe Formation Control for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems

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Hauptverfasser: Butler, Brooks A., Leung, Chi Ho, Paré, Philip E.
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author Butler, Brooks A.
Leung, Chi Ho
Paré, Philip E.
author_facet Butler, Brooks A.
Leung, Chi Ho
Paré, Philip E.
contents The safe control of multi-robot swarms is a challenging and active field of research, where common goals include maintaining group cohesion while simultaneously avoiding obstacles and inter-agent collision. Building off our previously developed theory for distributed collaborative safety-critical control for networked dynamic systems, we propose a distributed algorithm for the formation control of robot swarms given individual agent dynamics, induced formation dynamics, and local neighborhood position and velocity information within a defined sensing radius for each agent. Individual safety guarantees for each agent are obtained using rounds of communication between neighbors to restrict unsafe control actions among cooperating agents through safety conditions derived from high-order control barrier functions. We provide conditions under which a swarm is guaranteed to achieve collective safety with respect to multiple obstacles using a modified collaborative safety algorithm. We demonstrate the performance of our distributed algorithm via simulation in a simplified physics-based environment.
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spellingShingle Collaborative Safe Formation Control for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems
Butler, Brooks A.
Leung, Chi Ho
Paré, Philip E.
Optimization and Control
Multiagent Systems
Robotics
Systems and Control
Dynamical Systems
The safe control of multi-robot swarms is a challenging and active field of research, where common goals include maintaining group cohesion while simultaneously avoiding obstacles and inter-agent collision. Building off our previously developed theory for distributed collaborative safety-critical control for networked dynamic systems, we propose a distributed algorithm for the formation control of robot swarms given individual agent dynamics, induced formation dynamics, and local neighborhood position and velocity information within a defined sensing radius for each agent. Individual safety guarantees for each agent are obtained using rounds of communication between neighbors to restrict unsafe control actions among cooperating agents through safety conditions derived from high-order control barrier functions. We provide conditions under which a swarm is guaranteed to achieve collective safety with respect to multiple obstacles using a modified collaborative safety algorithm. We demonstrate the performance of our distributed algorithm via simulation in a simplified physics-based environment.
title Collaborative Safe Formation Control for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems
topic Optimization and Control
Multiagent Systems
Robotics
Systems and Control
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11156