{"title":"Planar formation control using tensegrity structures and experiments","authors":"Qingkai Yang, Yunlong Pan, Bo Zhou, H. Fang","doi":"10.1109/YAC.2019.8787707","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a framework on how to achieve prescribed planar formations using the concept of tensegrity structures. Given a group of robots with desired formation shape, we first design the underlying interaction topology based on the Polygon Theorem, yielding a super stable structure along with the robots' configuration. Then some basic control laws are introduced for mobile robots to model the interplay relationship between the neighbouring nodes in a self-equilibrated tensegrity structure. To fully validate the effectiveness of the tensegrity-motivated formation control strategy, we carry out not only numerical simulations but also experiments on two types of mobile robot platforms, wheeled mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).","PeriodicalId":6669,"journal":{"name":"2019 34rd Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"307-311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 34rd Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/YAC.2019.8787707","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents a framework on how to achieve prescribed planar formations using the concept of tensegrity structures. Given a group of robots with desired formation shape, we first design the underlying interaction topology based on the Polygon Theorem, yielding a super stable structure along with the robots' configuration. Then some basic control laws are introduced for mobile robots to model the interplay relationship between the neighbouring nodes in a self-equilibrated tensegrity structure. To fully validate the effectiveness of the tensegrity-motivated formation control strategy, we carry out not only numerical simulations but also experiments on two types of mobile robot platforms, wheeled mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).