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Decentralized Coverage Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Nonlinear Dynamics
Alireza DIRAFZOON Mohammad Bagher MENHAJ Ahmad AFSHAR
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Vol.E94-D
No.1
pp.3-10 Publication Date: 2011/01/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E94.D.3 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (IEICE/IEEE Joint Special Section on Autonomous Decentralized Systems Technologies and Their Application to Networked Systems) Category: Community Keyword: networked control systems, sensor networks, coverage problem, nonholonomic mobile robots, collision avoidance,
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Summary:
In this paper, we study the decentralized coverage control problem for an environment using a group of autonomous mobile robots with nonholonomic kinematic and dynamic constraints. In comparison with standard coverage control procedures, we develop a combined controller for Voronoi-based coverage approach in which kinematic and dynamic constraints of the actual mobile sensing robots are incorporated into the controller design. Furthermore, a collision avoidance component is added in the kinematic controller in order to guarantee a collision free coverage of the area. The convergence of the network to the optimal sensing configuration is proven with a Lyapunov-type analysis. Numerical simulations are provided approving the effectiveness of the proposed method through several experimental scenarios.
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