Bearing rigidity and almost global bearing-only formation stabilization

S Zhao, D Zelazo - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fundamental problem that the bearing rigidity theory studies is to determine when a
framework can be uniquely determined up to a translation and a scaling factor by its inter …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on techniques in the circular formation of multi-agent systems

H Litimein, ZY Huang, A Hamza - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Distributed control solutions to the multi-agent systems in terms of coordination, formation,
and consensus problems are extensively studied in the literature. The circular formation …

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 …

A distributed optimization framework for localization and formation control: Applications to vision-based measurements

R Tron, J Thomas, G Loianno… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent systems have been a major area of research for the last 15 years. This interest
has been motivated by tasks that can be executed more rapidly in a collaborative manner or …

Multi-agent distributed coordination control: Developments and directions via graph viewpoint

X Wang, Z Zeng, Y Cong - Neurocomputing, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, the recent developments of distributed coordination control problems are
summarized in a graph-theory-based framework. Distributed coordination has attracted …

Angle-based shape determination theory of planar graphs with application to formation stabilization

G Jing, G Zhang, HWJ Lee, L Wang - Automatica, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents an angle-based approach for distributed formation shape stabilization
of multi-agent systems in the plane. We develop an angle rigidity theory to study whether a …

Bearing-only formation tracking control of multi-agent systems with local reference frames and constant-velocity leaders

J Zhao, X Yu, X Li, H Wang - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, the bearing-only formation tracking control problem of multi-agent systems
modeled as double-integrators in local reference frames is investigated. The sensing …