Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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713397 | IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 2014 | 7 Pages |
Formation of multiple agents can be used for cooperative tasks like searching in rescue mission, quenching the fire in forest etc. In this paper we considered the collision-free formation generation with fixed topology. We propose a simple displacement-based distributed collision-free desired formation generation strategy with the help of relative information from the connected network. Displacement based formation generation is done iteratively by finding the solution of a linear equation. This linear equation is derived by minimizing the majorization of the stress function which is based on the distance constrained of desired formation. To maintain a safe distance among multiple agents we proposed a gradient based collision avoidance term with a strictly decreasing unique potential function. A variable gain function is used to ensure the fulfilment of suitable collision avoidance criteria. Finally considerable simulation results are shown in 2d and 3d with the proposed law.