A survey of multi-agent systems on distributed formation control

Y Liu, J Liu, Z He, Z Li, Q Zhang, Z Ding - Unmanned Systems, 2024 - World Scientific
Multi-agent formation control is an important part of distributed perception and cooperation,
which is convenient to complete various complex tasks and would be a key research …

Affine formation maneuver control of multiagent systems

S Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multiagent formation control task usually consists of two subtasks. The first is to steer the
agents to form a desired geometric pattern, and the second is to achieve desired collective …

Bearing-only formation tracking control of multiagent systems

S Zhao, Z Li, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of bearing-only formation control of multiagent systems,
where the control of each agent merely relies on the relative bearings to its neighbors …

Multilayer formation control of multi-agent systems

D Li, SS Ge, W He, G Ma, L Xie - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper first defines a multilayer formation control problem, where the agents can receive
and transmit information among the layers. A layered distributed finite-time estimator is …

Translational and scaling formation maneuver control via a bearing-based approach

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies distributed maneuver control of multiagent formations in arbitrary
dimensions. The objective is to control the translation and scale of the formation while …

Adaptive formation control of networked robotic systems with bearing-only measurements

X Li, C Wen, C Chen - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we address the bearing-only formation control problem of 3-D networked
robotic systems with parametric uncertainties. The contributions of this article are two-fold: 1) …

Bearing-based formation control of a group of agents with leader-first follower structure

MH Trinh, S Zhao, Z Sun, D Zelazo… - … on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies bearing-based formation control of a group of autonomous agents with
the leader-first follower (LFF) structure in an arbitrary dimensional space. First, the bearing …

Distributed finite-time bearing-based formation control for underactuated surface vessels with Levant differentiator

H Peng, B Huang, M Jin, C Zhu, J Zhuang - ISA transactions, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a distributed bearing-based formation control scheme with finite-time
convergency is proposed for multiple underactuated surface vessels (USVs). By virtue of the …

Distributed leader–follower affine formation maneuver control for high-order multiagent systems

L Chen, J Mei, C Li, G Ma - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To steer a group of agents to maneuver with the desired collective forms, this article studies
the affine formation maneuver control of high-order multiagent systems using a two-layered …

Bearing rigidity theory and its applications for control and estimation of network systems: Life beyond distance rigidity

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed control and location estimation of multiagent systems have received tremendous
research attention in recent years because of their potential across many application …