Planar Cooperative Extremum Seeking with Guaranteed Convergence Using A Three-Robot Formation

Anna Skobeleva, Baris Fidan, Valeri Ugrinovskii, Ian R. Petersen

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    Abstract

    In this paper, a combined formation acquisition and cooperative extremum seeking control scheme is proposed for a team of three robots moving on a plane. The extremum seeking task is to find the maximizer of an unknown two-dimensional function on the plane. The function represents the signal strength field due to a source located at the maximizer, and is assumed to be locally concave around the maximizer and monotonically decreasing in distance to the source location. Taylor expansions of the field function at the location of a particular lead robot and the maximizer are used together with a gradient estimator based on signal strength measurements of the robots to design and analyze the proposed control scheme. The proposed scheme is proven to exponentially and simultaneously (i) acquire the specified geometric formation and (ii) drive the lead robot to a specified neighbourhood disk around the maximizer, whose radius depends on the specified desired formation size as well as the norm bounds of the Hessian of the field function. The performance of the proposed control scheme is evaluated using a set of simulation experiments.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages1305-1310
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538613955
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2018
    Event57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018 - Miami, United States
    Duration: 17 Dec 201819 Dec 2018

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Volume2018-December
    ISSN (Print)0743-1546
    ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

    Conference

    Conference57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2018
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityMiami
    Period17/12/1819/12/18

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