A control method for a team of multiple mobile robots performing leader-follower formation by implementing computing, communication, and control technology is considered. The strategy expands the role of global coordinator system and controllers of multiple robots system. The global coordinator system creates no-collision trajectories of the virtual leader which is the virtual leader for all vehicles, sub-virtual leaders which are the virtual leader for pertinent followers, and virtual followers. The global coordinator system also implements role assignment algorithm to allocate the role of mobile robots in the formation. The controllers of the individual mobile robots have a task to track the assigned trajectories and also to avoid collision among the mobile robots using the artificial potential field algorithm. The proposed method is tested by experiments of three mobile robots performing leader-follower formation with the shape of a triangle. The experimental results show the robustness of formation of mobile robots even if the leader is manually moved to the arbitrary location, and so that the role of a leader is taken by the nearest mobile robot to the virtual leader.


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    Title :

    Implementation of Leader-Follower Formation Control of a Team of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots



    Publication date :

    2017-12-04


    Remarks:

    doi:10.15837/ijccc.2017.6.2774
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS COMMUNICATIONS & CONTROL; Vol 12 No 6 (2017): International Journal of Computers Communications & Control (December); 871-885 ; 1841-9844 ; 1841-9836 ; 10.15837/ijccc.2017.6



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629 / 600





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