A survey of autonomous underwater vehicle formation: Performance, formation control, and communication capability

Y Yang, Y Xiao, T Li - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are submersible underwater vehicles controlled
by onboard computers. AUV formation is a cooperative control which focuses on controlling …

Advances in network controllability

L Xiang, F Chen, W Ren, G Chen - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The last decade has seen an explosion of research in network controllability. The present
article reviews some basic concepts, significant progress, important results and recent …

Graph theoretic methods in multiagent networks

M Mesbahi - 2010 - torrossa.com
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.”—
Woody Allen The emergence of (relatively) cheap sensing and actuation nodes, capable of …

Containment control in mobile networks

M Ji, G Ferrari-Trecate, M Egerstedt… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the problem of driving a collection of mobile robots to a given target destination
is studied. In particular, we are interested in achieving this transfer in an orderly manner so …

Controllability of multi-agent systems from a graph-theoretic perspective

A Rahmani, M Ji, M Mesbahi, M Egerstedt - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2009 - SIAM
In this work, we consider the controlled agreement problem for multi-agent networks, where
a collection of agents take on leader roles while the remaining agents execute local …

Agile coordination and assistive collision avoidance for quadrotor swarms using virtual structures

D Zhou, Z Wang, M Schwager - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for controlling a swarm of quadrotors to perform agile
interleaved maneuvers while holding a fixed relative formation, or transitioning between …

Consensus-based distributed economic dispatch control method in power systems

Q Li, DW Gao, H Zhang, Z Wu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new consensus-based control scheme for distributed power
systems to solve the distributed economic dispatch (DED) problem. With the development of …

Containment in leader–follower networks with switching communication topologies

G Notarstefano, M Egerstedt, M Haque - Automatica, 2011 - Elsevier
We study bipartite, first-order networks where the nodes take on leader or follower roles.
Specifically, we let the leaders' positions be static and assume that leaders and followers …

Formation control algorithms for multiple-uavs: a comprehensive survey

HT Do, HT Hua, MT Nguyen, CV Nguyen… - EAI Endorsed …, 2021 - publications.eai.eu
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely deployed in many applications such as
transportation, data collection, monitoring, or tracking objects. Nowadays, numerous …

Time-varying formation control of a collaborative heterogeneous multi agent system

R Rahimi, F Abdollahi, K Naqshi - Robotics and autonomous systems, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, coherent formation control of a multi-agent system in the presence of time-
varying formation is studied. For special application of rescue and surveillance, a set of …