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Autori principali: Vitale, Christian, Papaioannou, Savvas, Kolios, Panayiotis, Ellinas, Georgios
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12718
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author Vitale, Christian
Papaioannou, Savvas
Kolios, Panayiotis
Ellinas, Georgios
author_facet Vitale, Christian
Papaioannou, Savvas
Kolios, Panayiotis
Ellinas, Georgios
contents Current research on robust trajectory planning for autonomous agents aims to mitigate uncertainties arising from disturbances and modeling errors while ensuring guaranteed safety. Existing methods primarily utilize stochastic optimal control techniques with chance constraints to maintain a minimum distance among agents with a guaranteed probability. However, these approaches face challenges, such as the use of simplifying assumptions that result in linear system models or Gaussian disturbances, which limit their practicality in complex realistic scenarios. To address these limitations, this work introduces a novel probabilistically robust distributed controller enabling autonomous agents to plan safe trajectories, even under non-Gaussian uncertainty and nonlinear systems. Leveraging exact uncertainty propagation techniques based on mixed-trigonometric-polynomial moment propagation, this method transforms non-Gaussian chance constraints into deterministic ones, seamlessly integrating them into a distributed model predictive control framework solvable with standard optimization tools. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique, highlighting its ability to consistently handle various types of uncertainty, ensuring robust and accurate path planning in complex scenarios.
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spellingShingle Probabilistically Robust Trajectory Planning of Multiple Aerial Agents
Vitale, Christian
Papaioannou, Savvas
Kolios, Panayiotis
Ellinas, Georgios
Systems and Control
Current research on robust trajectory planning for autonomous agents aims to mitigate uncertainties arising from disturbances and modeling errors while ensuring guaranteed safety. Existing methods primarily utilize stochastic optimal control techniques with chance constraints to maintain a minimum distance among agents with a guaranteed probability. However, these approaches face challenges, such as the use of simplifying assumptions that result in linear system models or Gaussian disturbances, which limit their practicality in complex realistic scenarios. To address these limitations, this work introduces a novel probabilistically robust distributed controller enabling autonomous agents to plan safe trajectories, even under non-Gaussian uncertainty and nonlinear systems. Leveraging exact uncertainty propagation techniques based on mixed-trigonometric-polynomial moment propagation, this method transforms non-Gaussian chance constraints into deterministic ones, seamlessly integrating them into a distributed model predictive control framework solvable with standard optimization tools. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique, highlighting its ability to consistently handle various types of uncertainty, ensuring robust and accurate path planning in complex scenarios.
title Probabilistically Robust Trajectory Planning of Multiple Aerial Agents
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12718