Vision-based distributed formation control without an external positioning system

E Montijano, E Cristofalo, D Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a fully distributed solution to drive a team of robots to reach a
desired formation in the absence of an external positioning system that localizes them. Our …

Motion synchronization in unmanned aircrafts formation control with communication delays

H Rezaee, F Abdollahi - … in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a formation control strategy for unmanned aircrafts using a virtual
structure. Cross coupled sliding mode controllers are introduced to cope with uncertainties …

Based Motion Synchronization in Formation Flight With Delayed Communications

H Rezaee, F Abdollahi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an H∞ control strategy for swarm formation of multiple-unmanned
aircraft systems based on the virtual structure considering wind effects and measurement …

Epipolar visual servoing for multirobot distributed consensus

E Montijano, J Thunberg, X Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we give a distributed solution to the problem of making a team of
nonholonomic robots reach consensus about their orientations using monocular cameras …

[HTML][HTML] Distributed control of a network of single integrators with limited angular fields of view

MM Asadi, A Ajorlou, AG Aghdam - Automatica, 2016 - Elsevier
The consensus and containment problems in a multi-agent system consisting of single
integrators with angular field of view (FOV) constraints in their sensing capabilities are …

Distributed attitude synchronization control

J Thunberg, E Montijano, X Hu - 2011 50th IEEE conference on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we consider the problem of constructing feedback control laws for a system of n
agents that shall synchronize their attitudes in SO (3). We propose distributed controllers for …

Multi-robot distributed visual consensus using epipoles

E Montijano, J Thunberg, X Hu… - 2011 50th IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we give a distributed solution to the problem of making a team of non-
holonomic robots achieve the same heading (attitude consensus problem) using vision …

Distributed attitude synchronization control of multi-agent systems with directed topologies

J Thunberg, W Song, X Hu - … of the 10th World Congress on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the present paper we consider the problem of attitude synchronization for a system of rigid
body agents. We provide distributed kinematic control laws for two different synchronization …

Passivity-based visual motion observer: From theory to distributed algorithms

T Hatanaka, M Fujita - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper gives an overview of a series of the authors' researches on the passivity-based
visual motion observer and its applications to a variety of control and estimation problems …

Visual feedback leader-following pose synchronization: Convergence analysis

T Ibuki, T Hatanaka, M Fujita… - Proceedings of the 2011 …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates visual feedback pose synchronization on SE (3) in leader-follower
type visibility structures. After defining visual robotic networks to be controlled, we propose a …