Edge Contraction Based Maintenance of Rigidity in Multi-Agent Formations During Agent Loss

Baris Fidan, Julien M Hendrick, Brian Anderson

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    Abstract

    This paper proposes a systematic approach to the problem of restoring rigidity after loss of an agent, for two-dimensional rigid multi-agent formations based on a particular graph operation, the edge contraction operation. A rigidity maintenance method is proposed, for the cases where an agent is lost in an arbitrary two-dimensional rigid formation, to restore rigidity by transferring all links to which this agent was incident on to one of its neighbors. From a graph theoretical point of view, this corresponds to contraction of a certain edge incident to the vertex representing the agent being lost.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation 2009
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages422-427
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4244-4685-8
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-4684-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    Event2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation - Thessaloniki, Greece
    Duration: 24 Jun 200926 Jun 2009

    Conference

    Conference2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
    Abbreviated titleMED 2009
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CityThessaloniki
    Period24/06/0926/06/09

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