Bearing-only Formation Control of Nonholonomic Agents with Unknown Dynamic Leaders
Haifan Su, Ziwen Yang, Shanying Zhu, Cailian Chen · 2021 China Automation Congress (CAC) · 2021
In this paper, the problem of bearing-only formation tracking control of multiple nonholonomic agents is studied. A leader-follower structure is adopted, where the leaders are moving at an unknown constant linear velocity and time-varying orientation. To solve the problem using bearing-only measurements, a finite-time estimator is firstly proposed to estimate the leaders’ orientation information. Then, an adaptation law for estimating the leaders’ linear velocity is proposed, based on which control inputs for tracking the leaders in a predefined bearing-based formation are designed, so that formation tracking can be achieved asymptotically. Rigorous theoretical analysis of the closed-loop system is given. It is proved that both the estimation errors and formation errors converge to zero under the connectivity of the communication graph and conditions for bearing rigidity. Numerical simulations are presented to testify the effectiveness of the proposed method.