Bearing‐only neural network adaptive formation control using negative gradient method

Author(s):  
Qin Wang ◽  
Sulong Li ◽  
Enci Wang ◽  
Yang Yi

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuejing Lan ◽  
Zhenghao Wu ◽  
Wenbiao Xu ◽  
Guiyun Liu

This paper considers the region-based formation control for a swarm of robots with unknown nonlinear dynamics and disturbances. An adaptive neural network is designed to approximate the unknown nonlinear dynamics, and the desired formation shape is achieved by designing appropriate potential functions. Moreover, the collision avoidance, velocity consensus, and region tracking are all considered in the controller. The stability of the multirobot system has been demonstrated based on the Lyapunov theorem. Finally, three numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed formation control scheme to deal with the narrow space, loss of robots, and formation merging problems.



Author(s):  
Kh. Sh Mohamed ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Wei Wu ◽  
Habtamu Z.A


Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Hooten ◽  
Raymond G. Beausoleil ◽  
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

Abstract We present a proof-of-concept technique for the inverse design of electromagnetic devices motivated by the policy gradient method in reinforcement learning, named PHORCED (PHotonic Optimization using REINFORCE Criteria for Enhanced Design). This technique uses a probabilistic generative neural network interfaced with an electromagnetic solver to assist in the design of photonic devices, such as grating couplers. We show that PHORCED obtains better performing grating coupler designs than local gradient-based inverse design via the adjoint method, while potentially providing faster convergence over competing state-of-the-art generative methods. As a further example of the benefits of this method, we implement transfer learning with PHORCED, demonstrating that a neural network trained to optimize 8° grating couplers can then be re-trained on grating couplers with alternate scattering angles while requiring >10× fewer simulations than control cases.







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