Cyclic pursuit without coordinates: Convergence to regular polygon formations

Maxim Arnold; Yuliy Baryshnikov; Daniel Liberzon

doi:10.1109/CDC.2014.7040359

Cyclic pursuit without coordinates: Convergence to regular polygon formations

Maxim Arnold, Yuliy Baryshnikov, Daniel Liberzon

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Abstract

We study a multi-agent cyclic pursuit model where each of the identical agents moves like a Dubins car and maintains a fixed heading angle with respect to the next agent. We establish that stationary shapes for this system are regular polygons. We derive a sufficient condition for local convergence to such regular polygon formations, which takes the form of an inequality connecting the angles of the regular polygon with the heading angle of the agents. A block-circulant structure of the system's linearization matrix in suitable coordinates facilitates and elucidates our analysis. Our results are complementary to the conditions for rendezvous obtained in earlier work [Yu et al., IEEE Trans. Autom. Contr., Feb. 2012].

Original language	English
Article number	7040359
Pages (from-to)	6191-6196
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume	2015-February
Issue number	February
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2014.7040359
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 53rd IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2014 - Los Angeles, United States Duration: Dec 15 2014 → Dec 17 2014

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Control and Systems Engineering
Modelling and Simulation
Control and Optimization

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