IBUKI TATSUYA
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Science and Technology
   Position   Associate Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2022/09
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Optimization-Based Distributed Safety Control with Applications to Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robotic Networks
Contribution Type Co-authored (first author)
Journal Advanced Robotics
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
Volume, Issue, Page 37(1-2),pp.87-98
Total page number 12
Authorship Lead author,Corresponding author
Author and coauthor Tatsuya Ibuki, Taichi Hirano, Riku Funada, Mitsuji Sampei
Details This paper presents a distributed input rectification methodology to guarantee the safety of a multi-agent system over its pre-given cooperative control task. We start with defining a multi-agent system as a control target, which consists of a group of agents with general control affine nonlinear dynamics and an interconnection topology between agents. The research objective, safety, is next defined via a set invariance property, where a safe set is formed by control barrier functions. Then, an optimization-based distributed safety control method is presented. In the proposed approach, each agent rectifies its control input by solving an individual optimization problem to achieve a pre-given cooperative control strategy as much as possible while satisfying constraints for the safety derived by investigating the control barrier functions. Here, the optimization problem is formulated in a distributed manner by dividing the safety constraint between agents.