IBUKI TATSUYA
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Science and Technology
   Position   Associate Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2020/04
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Optimization-Based Distributed Flocking Control for Multiple Rigid Bodies (The contents of this paper were also selected by ICRA 2020 Program Committee for presentation at the conference)
Contribution Type Co-authored (first author)
Journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume, Issue, Page 5(2),pp.1891-1898
Total page number 8
Authorship Lead author,Corresponding author
International coauthorship International coauthorship
Author and coauthor Tatsuya Ibuki, Sean Wilson, Junya Yamauchi, Masayuki Fujita, Magnus Egerstedt
Details This letter considers distributed flocking control on the Special Euclidean group for networked rigid bodies. The method captures the three flocking rules proposed by Reynolds: cohesion; alignment; and separation. The proposed controller is based only on relative pose (position and attitude) information with respect to neighboring rigid bodies so that it can be implemented in a fully distributed manner using only local sensors. The flocking algorithm is moreover based on pose synchronization methods for the cohesion/alignment rules and achieves safe separation distances through the application of control barrier functions. The control input for each rigid body is chosen by solving a distributed optimization problem with constraints for pose synchronization and collision avoidance. Here, the inherent conflict between cohesion and separation is explicitly handled by relaxing the position synchronization constraint.