@inproceedings{63856f9eadbd4991b56ba07ba7324306,
title = "Fast and efficient formation flocking for a group of autonomous mobile robots",
abstract = "The control and coordination of mobile robots in groups that can freely cooperate and move on a plane is a widely studied topic in distributed robotics. In this paper, we focus on the flocking problem: there are two kinds of robots: the leader robot and the follower robots. The follower robots are required to follow the leader robot wherever it goes (following), while keeping a formation they are given in input (flocking). A novel scheme is proposed based on the relative motion theory. Extensive theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that this scheme provides the follower robots an efficient method to follow the leader as soon as possible with the shortest path. Furthermore, this scheme is scalable, and the processing load for every robot is not increased with the addition of more robots.",
keywords = "Control and coordination, Distributed system, Flocking algorithm, Mobile robots, Motion theory",
author = "Naixue Xiong and Yingshu Li and Jong, {Hyuk Park} and Yang, {Laurence T.} and Yan Yang and Sun Tao",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536482",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424416943",
series = "IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM",
booktitle = "IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM",
note = "IPDPS 2008 - 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium ; Conference date: 14-04-2008 Through 18-04-2008",
}