Decentralized Extremum-Seeking Control of Nonholonomic Vehicles to Form a Communication Chain

Author(s):  
Cory Dixon ◽  
Eric W. Frew
Author(s):  
Paul Frihauf ◽  
Shu-Jun Liu ◽  
Miroslav Krstic

With a single stochastic extremum seeking control signal, we steer multiple autonomous vehicles, modeled as nonholonomic unicycles, toward the maximum of an unknown, spatially distributed signal field. The vehicles, whose angular velocities are constant and distinct, travel at the same forward velocity, which is controlled by the stochastic extremum seeking controller. To determine the vehicles’ velocity, the controller uses measurements of the signal field at the respective vehicle positions and excitation based on filtered white noise. The positions of the vehicles are not measured. We prove local exponential convergence, both almost surely and in probability, to a small neighborhood near the source and provide a numerical example to illustrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.


Author(s):  
Yuheng Wu ◽  
Mohammad Hazzaz Mahmud ◽  
Radha Sree Krishna Moorthy ◽  
Madhu Chinthavali ◽  
Yue Zhao

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 1614-1620
Author(s):  
Fabiana Federica Ferro ◽  
Michele Lionello ◽  
Mirco Rampazzo ◽  
Alessandro Beghi ◽  
Martin Guay

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 7849-7854 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Popp ◽  
J. Deutscher

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