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A Closer Look at Formation Control - Hardcover

Dianwei Qian

 
9781536181777: A Closer Look at Formation Control
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1536181773 ISBN 13: 9781536181777
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2020

Synopsis

Formation control is one of the most challenging problems in cooperative multi-robots. It is defined as a coordination of a group of robots to get into and to maintain a formation with a certain shape. The formation control problem has drawn significant attention for many years, and now it is well understood and tends to be mature. This control problem is originated from biological inspires such as flocking and schooling. Its classification includes formation shape generation, formation reconfiguration and selection, formation tracking, and role assignment in formation. It also has potential applications in search and rescue missions, forest fire detection and surveillance, etc. It can be extended to many real world systems, autonomous robots, such as underwater vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile sensor networks, rectangular agents, nonholonomic mobile robots, to name but a few. Apparently, the book cannot include all research topics. The editor and the authors wish that it could reveal some tendencies on this research field and benefit readers. In this book, different aspects of formation control are explored. Chapters includes some new tendencies and developments in research on several formation methods of multi-robot systems, that is, the 1st-order sliding mode control, the 2nd-order sliding mode control, the integral sliding mode control, the terminal sliding mode control, the sliding model control of multi-agents and the fuzzy-based formation control of multiple quadrotor systems.

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About the Author

Dianwei Qian, PhD Associate Professor, School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, China

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Publisher
Nova Science Publishers, Inc
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1536181773
ISBN 13 
9781536181777
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
1
Editor
Dianwei Qian