Abstract

This paper investigates the formation control of interconnected second-order systems. Each agent is assumed to be capable of measuring its own absolute velocity and the relative positions with respect to its neighboring agents, whereas the target formation is described by absolute positions of all agents in a global coordinate. For such formation control problems, no distributed control policy was reported in existing literature. This paper focuses on the string connection structure of the agents and proposes a distributed control policy that takes the form of purely state feedback without incorporating any feed-forward component. The closed-loop system equation is characterized by an oscillation matrix whose entries are the feedback controller gains. Formation control is accomplished by formulating the agents’ target positions as feedback controller gains. Moreover, it is shown that for agent models described by double integrators, each of the agents located at the two endpoints of the string structure should know its own absolute position. For a class of agent models where each agent’s acceleration depends on its own position, the control laws do not need to use the absolute position. For both system models, the target formations that are asymptotically reachable by the proposed control laws are specified explicitly. Numerical simulations have been conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

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