Positional Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems using a Broadcast Control Mechanism

Das, Kaushik and Ghose, Debasish (2009) Positional Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems using a Broadcast Control Mechanism. In: 2009 American Control Conference, June 10-12, 2009, Hyatt Regency Riverfront, St. Louis, MO, USA, pp. 5731-5736.

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Abstract

In this paper a strategy for controlling a group of agents to achieve positional consensus is presented. The proposed technique is based on the constraint that every agents must be given the same control input through a broadcast communication mechanism. Although the control command is computed using state information in a global framework, the control input is implemented by the agents in a local coordinate frame. We propose a novel linear programming formulation that is computationally less intensive than earlier proposed methods. Moreover, we introduce a random perturbation input in the control command that helps us to achieve perfect consensus even for a large number of agents, which was not possible with the existing strategy in the literature. Moreover, we extend the method to achieve positional consensus at a pre-specified location. The effectiveness of the approach is illustrated through simulation results.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2010 08:58
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:49
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/24244

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