Multi-robot Formation via Super-twisting Sliding Mode

The issue of multi-robot formation is one of the most important branches of robot control and as a hot research topic in the collaborative research of multi-agents. The formation control of robots has been used in the complex tasks such as military search, submarine formation, and drone formation. The formation of multiple robots in collaboration with each other can complete a variety of complex tasks, improve work efficiency, reduce energy consumption costs, and increase the probability of task completion. This book takes wheeled mobile robots as the research object and applies three novel sliding mode control approaches to control the leader-following formation to realize that the multiple robots maintain a stable and regular formation movement.

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Dianwei Qian is with the School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China.Shiwen Tong is with the College of Robotics, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China.