A geometric view of formation control with application to directed sensing

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Hauptverfasser: Theran, Louis, Zelazo, Daniel, Sidman, Jessica
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author Theran, Louis
Zelazo, Daniel
Sidman, Jessica
author_facet Theran, Louis
Zelazo, Daniel
Sidman, Jessica
contents We propose a geometric approach to distance-based formation control modeled on a minimum-norm lifting of Riemannian gradient descent in edge-space to node-space. This yields a unified family of controllers, including the classical gradient controller and its directed variant. For the directed case, we give a simple numerical test for local convergence that applies to any directed graph and target. We show that persistence is neither necessary nor sufficient for local convergence of our directed controller and propose an alternative that is necessary and more easily checked.
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spellingShingle A geometric view of formation control with application to directed sensing
Theran, Louis
Zelazo, Daniel
Sidman, Jessica
Optimization and Control
Metric Geometry
We propose a geometric approach to distance-based formation control modeled on a minimum-norm lifting of Riemannian gradient descent in edge-space to node-space. This yields a unified family of controllers, including the classical gradient controller and its directed variant. For the directed case, we give a simple numerical test for local convergence that applies to any directed graph and target. We show that persistence is neither necessary nor sufficient for local convergence of our directed controller and propose an alternative that is necessary and more easily checked.
title A geometric view of formation control with application to directed sensing
topic Optimization and Control
Metric Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06195