Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems

7	Formation Control in Multi-Agent Systems over Packet Dropping Links S. Seshadhri and R. Ayyagari

CONTENTS

7.1      Introduction

7.2      Problem Formulation

7.3      Estimation-Based Formation Control Algorithm

7.4      Data to be Transmitted in the Event of a Lost Packet for Optimal Estimation

7.5      Results and Discussions

7.6      Concluding Remarks

References

7.1      INTRODUCTION

Proliferation of communication channels into control loops has enabled plethora of applications that abstractly engaged the attention of control engineers in the past. Moreover, the presence of a communication channel has necessitated a paradigm shift in the way control loops have been analysed in the past. The usual assumptions of synchronous availability ...