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Necessary and sufficient graphical conditions for formation control of unicycles
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The feasibility problem is studied of achieving a specified formation among a group of autonomous unicycles by local distributed control. The directed graph defined by the information flow plays a key role. It is proved that formation stabilization to a point is feasible if and only if the sensor digraph has a globally reachable node. A similar result is given for formation stabilization to a line and to more general geometric arrangements.
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- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- Published
- 2005-01
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 121-127
- ISSN
- 0018-9286 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-2523
- OpenAlex
- W2147326597
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- 1,041
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 59.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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