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Main Authors: Ze, Kunrui, Wang, Wei, Yue, Shuoyu, Sun, Guibin, Liu, Kexin, Lü, Jinhu
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05481
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author Ze, Kunrui
Wang, Wei
Yue, Shuoyu
Sun, Guibin
Liu, Kexin
Lü, Jinhu
author_facet Ze, Kunrui
Wang, Wei
Yue, Shuoyu
Sun, Guibin
Liu, Kexin
Lü, Jinhu
contents This article studies the problem of distributed formation control for multiple robots by using onboard ultra wide band (UWB) distance and inertial odometer (IO) measurements. Although this problem has been widely studied, a fundamental limitation of most works is that they require each robot's pose and sensor measurements are expressed in a common reference frame. However, it is inapplicable for nonholonomic robot formations due to the practical difficulty of aligning IO measurements of individual robot in a common frame. To address this problem, firstly, a concurrent-learning based estimator is firstly proposed to achieve relative localization between neighboring robots in a local frame. Different from most relative localization methods in a global frame, both relative position and orientation in a local frame are estimated with only UWB ranging and IO measurements. Secondly, to deal with information loss caused by directed communication topology, a cooperative localization algorithm is introduced to estimate the relative pose to the leader robot. Thirdly, based on the theoretical results on relative pose estimation, a distributed formation tracking controller is proposed for nonholonomic robots. Both 3D and 2D real-world experiments conducted on aerial robots and grounded robots are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle Relative Pose Estimation for Nonholonomic Robot Formation with UWB-IO Measurements (Extended version)
Ze, Kunrui
Wang, Wei
Yue, Shuoyu
Sun, Guibin
Liu, Kexin
Lü, Jinhu
Robotics
This article studies the problem of distributed formation control for multiple robots by using onboard ultra wide band (UWB) distance and inertial odometer (IO) measurements. Although this problem has been widely studied, a fundamental limitation of most works is that they require each robot's pose and sensor measurements are expressed in a common reference frame. However, it is inapplicable for nonholonomic robot formations due to the practical difficulty of aligning IO measurements of individual robot in a common frame. To address this problem, firstly, a concurrent-learning based estimator is firstly proposed to achieve relative localization between neighboring robots in a local frame. Different from most relative localization methods in a global frame, both relative position and orientation in a local frame are estimated with only UWB ranging and IO measurements. Secondly, to deal with information loss caused by directed communication topology, a cooperative localization algorithm is introduced to estimate the relative pose to the leader robot. Thirdly, based on the theoretical results on relative pose estimation, a distributed formation tracking controller is proposed for nonholonomic robots. Both 3D and 2D real-world experiments conducted on aerial robots and grounded robots are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
title Relative Pose Estimation for Nonholonomic Robot Formation with UWB-IO Measurements (Extended version)
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05481