Fuzzy Formation Control and Collision Avoidance for Multiagent Systems. (7th March 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chang, Yeong-Hwa; Chen, Chun-Lin; Chan, Wei-Shou; Lin, Hung-Wei; Chang, Chia-Wen
• Other Names: Shi Peng Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Mathematical problems in engineering. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-03-07
• Subjects: Engineering mathematics -- Periodicals; 510.2462
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/908180
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1024-123X

Abstract

Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the formation control of leader-follower multiagent systems, where the problem of collision avoidance is considered. Based on the graph-theoretic concepts and locally distributed information, a neural fuzzy formation controller is designed with the capability of online learning. The learning rules of controller parameters can be derived from the gradient descent method. To avoid collisions between neighboring agents, a fuzzy separation controller is proposed such that the local minimum problem can be solved. In order to highlight the advantages of this fuzzy logic based collision-free formation control, both of the static and dynamic leaders are discussed for performance comparisons. Simulation results indicate that the proposed fuzzy formation and separation control can provide better formation responses compared to conventional consensus formation and potential-based collision-avoidance algorithms.