Flocking Control of Multiple Mobile Agents with the Rules of Avoiding Collision

Hongtao Zhou, Wenfeng Zhou and Wei Zeng

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, vol. 2015, 1-9

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This paper investigates the flocking and the coordinative control problems of multiple mobile agents with the rules of avoiding collision. We propose a set of control laws using hysteresis in adding new links and applying new potential function to guarantee that the fragmentation of the network can be avoided, under which all agents approach a common velocity vector, and asymptotically converge to a fixed value of interagent distances and collisions between agents can be avoided throughout the motion. Furthermore, we extend the flocking algorithm to solve the flocking situation of the group with a virtual leader agent. The laws can make all agents asymptotically approach the virtual leader and collisions can be avoided between agents in the motion evolution. Finally, some numerical simulations are showed to illustrate the theoretical results.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1155/2015/529538

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